Easy To Learn Guitar Tabs For Peter Gunn by Ricky 6 hours ago It is easy to learn guitar tabs. Only one basic idea needs to be understood, the rest falls into place. To illustrate this idea I will be using tabs for a simple piece of music called Peter Gunn. Guitar tabs are seen by learning guitar players as an easy way to start playing guitar [...]
Learning More Guitar Techniques by Ricky 18 Nov 2008 at 4:42pm If you are a new guitarist who is curious about the guitar techniques you will be learning in the future or if you are looking to develop a little more style in your guitar playing, this article will tell you about some commonly used guitar techniques. I am also going to describe how to [...]
Free Country Guitar Tablature by Ricky 17 Nov 2008 at 6:17pm This is a brief note on how to sort through free country guitar tablature and use it to start yourself off as a guitar player. Some of the biggest solo artists in history have been country artists. Garth Brooks springs to mind immediately. But country music is not unique to the USA. Australia has [...]
The circle of fifths and chord progressions by Ricky 16 Nov 2008 at 5:53pm This post will you some ideas to help you create your own understanding of chord progressions and to give you a working knowledge of the circle of fifths. You can use the proven formula of I-IV-V to arrive at chord progressions like: G C D G or C F G C or D G [...]
Slack Key Guitar by Ricky 13 Nov 2008 at 7:41pm Slack key guitar is a fingerpicking style noted for being kept well hidden by its most notable exponents. Finding books, records or tutorials on slack key guitar playing is a series of dead ends where recording studios and music publishers have stopped recording and publishing and guitar players who specialize in slack key playing [...]
Learn to play Hotel California on guitar by Ricky 12 Nov 2008 at 6:26pm After many years Hotel California is still a classic. The words and chords are sought after items by guitar players young and old. Below are the words to Hotel California with the chord names inserted into the lines in brackets to avoid the complications we often get trying to publish lyrics and words together [...]
Free Guitar Chord Software by Ricky 10 Nov 2008 at 9:19pm Free guitar chord software is a sought after item. If you feel you must own software that can spit out every chord known to man then why not get it for free? I cannot help wondering how many variations on the basic chords a guitar player needs. If you want to put a little [...]
How To Learn Bass Guitar Online by Ricky 9 Nov 2008 at 5:36pm If you have an interest in learning to play bass guitar, you will find it to be a very rewarding instrument to play. The bass guitar player is an important member of the band. The quality of the group’s playing depends largely on how well the bass player keeps in time. Not only are [...]
Learn Flamenco Guitar Techniques by Ricky 6 Nov 2008 at 9:15pm Are Flamenco guitar lessons worth taking for somebody not raised in Andalucia? Many years ago you had to be a black American to have any credibility as a blues singer or guitar player. And if you were not Spanish you never got anywhere as a Flamenco artist no matter how good you were. But [...]
Acoustic Guitar Solos by Ricky 5 Nov 2008 at 10:57pm Acoustic guitar solos make up a slice of a musical genre that has all but vanished from popular music - instrumentals. By instrumentals I mean music that is composed and played by a human using musical instruments rather than techno instrumentals that may not be composed and played in the traditional way. Not that [...]