Learning guitar by ear by Ricky 23 hours ago A little-known fact about playing guitar by ear is that anybody can do it. It’s like a lot of artistic ability, half of it is in your perception of yourself. If you think you can’t draw, then you never will. If you think you can’t play by ear, you will always be dependent on [...]
Learn To Play Country Guitar by Ricky 30 Jun 2009 at 7:05pm Many guitar players are attracted to country music even though it may not be their first choice of guitar style. Country is a completely different way of playing guitar which gives your overall musicianship a big boost.
Let’s look at which country guitar players are regarded as the ones to listen to. There are many [...]
Learning Guitar Solos From Tab by Ricky 29 Jun 2009 at 6:08pm A newbie guitarist’s inspiration to learn to play the guitar is the lead guitar player in a famous band. Hearing a great solo guitar player at work raises quite a few questions about the techniques he uses, the tone and volume settings, and where he gets those great guitar solos from.
If you play the [...]
Learn Guitar On DVD Or Books? by Ricky 28 Jun 2009 at 4:02pm Guitar lesson books have more info than your average guitar teacher but they can’t show you how to do things. Okay, they have photos and drawings, but that’s not the same as a person showing you how it’s done and correcting any mistakes you might be making. You can try to copy how it’s [...]
Learn To Play Blues Licks by Ricky 26 Jun 2009 at 2:41am As guitar players we are always looking for arrangements of notes that we can use to impress our audience. There are several names given to these sequences of notes, such as lick, phrase, riff or hook. Each of these terms identifies a group of notes with a different function. A guitar lick is a [...]
Playing rhythm guitar by Ricky 24 Jun 2009 at 4:52pm There is no line between lead and rhythm guitar but the rhythm guitar player’s function is to form part of the rhythmic structure of a song. The rhythm guitar parts are usually very simple and add body to the sound of the music.
To define the roles of the two guitar players, we can take [...]
Advanced Lead Guitar Techniques - The Barre Chord by Ricky 23 Jun 2009 at 4:02am Barre chords are a major element of all kinds of guitar music, but you might not think it should be included on the list of advanced techniques for lead guitarists. The barre chord is the most challenging technique for beginners because the guitarist needs to continually exert some physical force. This applying and releasing [...]
Teaching yourself chords by Ricky 21 Jun 2009 at 5:14pm One way you can use to teach yourself guitar chords is to print out the chord charts you are using and play a chord - say C major - for four beats, then another chord for four more beats, then another, and so on for all the chords you have on your chart. Change [...]
Some info about classical guitars by Ricky 19 Jun 2009 at 8:33am The acoustic guitar with six nylon strings is generally known as the classical guitar but you can play practically any kind of music on it. Sometimes a little imagination is needed as Jose Feliciano showed when he converted The Doors’ “Light My Fire” into an acoustic ballad, but in the right hands the classical [...]
The Guitar Fretboard - How To Learn The Notes by Ricky 18 Jun 2009 at 8:06am The fretboard of the guitar is a mystery to beginner guitar players. How to crack the secrets of the fretboard is a matter of patience and practice. The trick is discovering how to find patterns of notes where no pattern is at first obvious.
A diagram of the notes on the fretboard will be useful. [...]
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley