An Easy Way To Learn Guitar Chords? by Ricky 11 hours ago If you want an easy way to learn guitar chords, the solution is practice. Everyday practice. It is a prickly question for the new guitar player, “when am I going to stop being a newbie?” The answer is gradually. Every day you start again from the get-go. That sounds hard, but over time it [...]
Learn To Play Acoustic Guitar Free by Ricky 5 Jan 2009 at 12:44am Some people never develop a deep understanding of the acoustic guitar. That does not mean that anybody cannot have fun by just being an amateur guitar player. To learn a few chords and practice the technique of strumming can be very rewarding in spite of the fact that it does not make you a [...]
Play guitar in 2009 by Ricky 2 Jan 2009 at 7:02am Here I am back from the Christmas break I didn’t know I was going to have. While I was not updating the blog I took the opportunity to install a script to run a newsletter. I encounter so many links to interesting guitar lessons stuff that I don’t have time to write posts on [...]
Learn To Play The Guitar On DVD by Ricky 18 Dec 2008 at 6:26pm I am not going to start bombarding you with products from Amazon, I just thought as I was doing a couple of posts on guitar DVDs and books I may as well give you links to the Amazon pages because they are genuinely interesting. If I was not addicted to collecting fridge magnets I [...]
How To Play Guitar Books by Ricky 17 Dec 2008 at 3:09pm There are so many tools for learning how to play guitar that you can get on the internet, it makes you wonder whether how to play guitar books have a place in the world of technology. When you used to have to learn to play guitar from a teacher you always had to have [...]
How To Learn Guitar Chords Online - The Key Ingredients by Ricky 15 Dec 2008 at 8:27pm Whatever musical genre you are into, you will need to learn how to play guitar chords. There are varying degrees of focus on learning chords. In rock, country and blues you can get away with learning a few chord shapes to play the I IV V chord progression in all the keys you need [...]
Easy Guitar Techniques For Beginners by Ricky 14 Dec 2008 at 4:23pm Guitar techniques do not need to be difficult for beginners, in fact it is a great boost for your enthusiasm when you start to master one or two easy guitar techniques. As the left hand and the right hand both need attention when you are a guitar beginner, I thought we could examine some [...]
Spanish Guitar Songs, Chords And Scales by Ricky 12 Dec 2008 at 6:14am When you take up the acoustic guitar you want to play songs, right? Maybe to sing some songs around the campfire. Lots of pop songs and folk songs sound good accompanied by the acoustic guitar but a sudden wish to play Spanish guitar songs often takes hold of you. If you can play Spanish [...]
How To Record Your Guitar On Your Computer by Ricky 10 Dec 2008 at 2:30pm If you are one of the many amateur guitar players who wonders how to connect your guitar to your pc and record your playing, there are several answers, most of them simple. I have posted on Connecting Your Guitar To Your Computer before but a different point of view never hurt anybody.
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Dobro Tunings - the cornerstone of learning to play slide guitar by Ricky 9 Dec 2008 at 6:31pm If you are attracted to the sound of the resonator guitar you will be learning some Dobro tunings. The resonator guitar, or Dobro, like the electric guitar, is the result of early pioneers of the guitar looking for some way to make their instrument heard above the other instruments in a band. Using metal [...]
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats