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Easy Songs To Play On The Guitar by Ricky 8 Aug 2010 at 6:05am There are lots of easy guitar songs that can be learned in a short time. Horse With No Name by America is possibly THE easiest because you can get away with playing this song using only one chord.
Most songs have at least three chords but that does not make them hard to play. Bald Headed [...]
Rhythm Guitar Lessons by Ricky 18 Jul 2010 at 6:06am There’s more to playing rhythm than just guitar strumming lessons but learning to strum chords is a good start. If you want to learn to be a solo guitar player learning to play rhythm is important. It will give you an understanding of the guitar will help you to establish communication with the other members [...]
Blues In A by Ricky 8 Jul 2010 at 5:11pm The bottom line for most people starting out with blues guitar is to become a solo player. This means you know how to improvise and to write yourself a collection of licks. Here is a starter in the form of the blues scale in A. Use alternate picking to play it up and down and [...]
Misa Guitar by Ricky 3 Jul 2010 at 3:05am Struggling with sore fingers could be a thing of the past for aspiring guitar players. The digital guitar is here. The Misa Guitar is really a midi controller but it looks like a guitar, waddles like a guitar and quacks like a guitar. Or like any other instrument.
Electronic music has always involved some preparation. In [...]
Learn Guitar Strumming by Ricky 19 Jun 2010 at 9:55pm When you first pick up the acoustic guitar you will probably find yourself deciding whether to use a plectrum or your fingers for strumming. There’s two factors to consider here – the sound and how it feels. Don’t take notice of anyone telling you that one kind of guitar picking is easier than another, skill [...]
An Introduction To Playing The Blues by Ricky 11 Jun 2010 at 4:09am It’s been a while since the blues has been featured in these pages, so here is an introduction to the blues from one of the masters.
Hawkeye Herman has been playing the blues since he was a teenager. That’s over fifty years. He learnt to play from people like Son House, Brownie McGhee, Bukka White, Sam [...]
Classical Guitars And Pickups by Ricky 4 Jun 2010 at 8:40am If you want to play nylon string acoustic guitar then put learning to play the guitar first and put amplification on the back burner. The classical guitar is fairly demanding so you would do well to put the time and effort into executing your pull-offs and hammer-ons and getting your picking – finger or flatpick [...]
Free Video Guitar Lesson ? Playing Rhythm Like James Hetfield by Ricky 28 May 2010 at 4:26pm Free Video Guitar Lesson
Playing Rhythm Like The Masters: James Hetfield
by Andrew Szucs of GuitarTricks.com
This lesson teaches you how to play rhythm guitar in a style similar to James Hetfield of Metallica.
Hetfield’s style incorporates a lot of [...]
Guitar Lessons On Line by Ricky 21 May 2010 at 4:34am Even with the popularity of Guitar Hero there are still lots of people who actually take the extra step of learning to play a real guitar. The basic skills lie in the areas of taking in information through our minds and learning new motor skills by practicing.
Whether you learn to read conventional music notation or [...]
Learning How To Play Guitar? by Ricky 15 May 2010 at 1:03am Have you had a long term burning desire to learn how to play the guitar? Have you learnt to play other musical instruments but always had the intention to learn guitar tucked away at the back of your mind?
Starting out learning to play the guitar is easy. You will need to get some knowledge together [...]
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Ludwig Van Beethoven