The Gibson Learn & Master Guitar iPhone App by Ricky 7 Mar 2010 at 6:19pm Gibson Guitars has brought out a new iPhone app that includes a guitar tuner, metronome, chord chart, and sample lessons from the Learn & Master Guitar course, the most comprehensive guitar instructional series on the market, to provide you with a must-have application for any guitar player. This application provides you with essential tools [...]
Holding The Guitar Pick by Ricky 26 Feb 2010 at 3:30am The question in the minds of many people learning how to play the guitar is how to hold the pick. We hear there are “correct” ways to hold the pick, like putting it between the thumb and the curled up index finger. But does it make more sense to strike a balance between correctness [...]
Learn To Guitar Solo by Ricky 21 Feb 2010 at 6:22am The guitar solo is an important part of a song. In fact, some songs would not be remembered if it were not for the guitar solo or riff. Would Stairway To Heaven be the classic it is today if it was originally arranged for violins? Would we be listening to Smoke On The Water [...]
Guitar Strum Patterns by Ricky 12 Feb 2010 at 2:23pm A typical issue that beginner guitar players come up against is the lack of guitar strum patterns in sheet music and tab. It sure would be nice if all tablature and sheet music had the guitar strum patterns included. It sounds logical, doesn’t it? You get the notes, the chords and the lyrics, but [...]
Guitar Song Sheet Music by Ricky 5 Feb 2010 at 9:56pm If you want to learn how to play the guitar you will need to consider how you should go about learning your first guitar song – sheet music or tab. Standard musical notation which we generally call “sheet music”, and guitar tablature, or “tabs”, are the two languages used to write guitar songs and [...]
Flamenco Guitarists ? A Survey For Flamenco Guitar Fans by Ricky 29 Jan 2010 at 3:08pm Flamenco emerged as a musical force in the late nineteenth century. Flamenco is the musical expression embraced by Andalusian gypsies, and was originally a form of singing. Dancers – and guitarists to accompany them – came along later as Flamenco developed into an art form that people from other parts of the world wanted [...]
Guitar Chords ? How To Play Chords On A Guitar by Ricky 22 Jan 2010 at 2:21pm Guitar chords are combinations of notes. Every song you learn on the guitar will contain a group of chords. Some songs have only one or two, many songs have three chords, a few songs might make use of half a dozen guitar chords.
There are three ways to learn how to play chords on [...]
Classical Electric Guitars by Ricky 15 Jan 2010 at 6:13pm Is there such a thing as a classical electric guitar? Has the contemporary music of the twenty-first century made a place for a nylon string guitar with amplification and distortion? Some guitar players are attracted to the sound of the nylon string guitar but find the wider fretboard difficult to come to terms with. [...]
Chet Atkins Music ? The Essential Chet Atkins by Ricky 8 Jan 2010 at 7:41pm The thing about Chet Atkins’ music is its wide-ranging appeal. Chet Atkins was a musician who could move from gospel to pop, from country to Beatles tunes, from bluegrass to jazz. That’s not to say he was a jack of all trades and master of none. What he was a master at was finding [...]
Acoustic Guitar Lessons For Beginners by Ricky 30 Dec 2009 at 6:21pm Many people looking for acoustic guitar lessons for beginners end up settling for the lessons available on YouTube or a website that features free guitar lessons. Sometimes the effort of researching the guitar teachers in your local area is just too much. Of course the internet is a great source of acoustic guitar lessons [...]
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs. Friedrich Nietzsche