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G-D-C-D: Living Off Of The Beaten Path

By June 18, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

G-D-C-D, is the base for a large variety of songs people enjoy playing. You may encounter scenarios where you don't know the song you are about to jam with someone but, after studying this section, you will begin to see that not only can you play along without knowing the...

Lessons Learned From Steve Vai's 'World's Largest Online Guitar Lesson' [Lessons]

By June 08, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons Steve Vai

I truly believe that in order to become a better guitar player, one should listen and absorb as much inspiration from guitarists that one personally admires. These men are often kind enough to share with us their unique approach to music and the art. To paraphrase Newton, one should always...

Systematic Approach To Getting Out Of The Box [Lessons]

By June 02, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I'll be referring to this reference sheet and A minor throughout, but the same concepts can be applied to any scale. You'll see 7 patterns and an A minor scale diagram. Those 7 patterns are the building blocks for this logical, systematic approach. The system is very simple. By splitting...

Moving Beyond Chord Progressions In Songwriting

By May 27, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Chord progressions are nice, and a lot of good songs have been made using them, but to move on to more complex patterns (or make your own progressions) you really need to learn the personalities of the different chords as well as some common transitions between chords. I'll use the...

Question Everything: Exposing False Science

By May 26, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

There is already a perfectly good way to name your chords, it already makes perfect sense, and, it describes what notes you are supposed to play, where you might play them on the neck and, in what order you should consider arranging the notes. What's in a name? Predictability and...

The Relative Nature Of Time: Calculating For The Speed Of Music In Space-Time

By May 21, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lesson

Break out the reading glasses, bring the iPad to the bathroom, it's story time! A short story, long, about the importance of clear oral communication when speaking the language of music. Music theory is boring. Music language is fun! Learn to talk good! Music as linguistics! Then later on in...

Slap Bass Triplet Exercises

By May 20, 2015 | Bass Guitars Buying Guide Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars

Although these exercises can be set to different rhythms, I'm focusing on just triplets as the slap, index, middle pattern works nicely as you have three different strikes (motions) which creates a single beat. For those of you that don't know a triplet rhythm is basically three equal notes (equal...

Become A Better Acoustic Guitar Player By Studying The Styles And Techniques Of Chet Atkins

By May 18, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

A great way to improve and expand your own guitar playing is to study the styles and techniques of others, and then apply what you like to your own playing. Chet Atkins is a great candidate for this and in this article we are going to hone in on some...

The Use Of Scales

By May 14, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar

Using scales, a lot of students ask me why they should learn scales, what use will it have to their playing and perhaps even, shall I practice scales more than songs and just focus on them? Scales are a very useful way to get all of your fingers active in...

Practising Scales For Guitar - Part 1

By May 14, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This article is developed in line with my other post, "The Use of Scales." Read this article before proceeding with practising scales for guitar, this is a more advanced method to incorporate what you have already learned. The Method These are some of techniques I use to aid my students...

How To Write Harmonies - Part 2

By May 12, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This lesson isn't going to deal with writing harmonies, so much as what to do with them once we have them. We'll cover two simple concepts that will give awesome results for your writing. You can review part 1 here. For both concepts, we are going to start with the...

The Jimi Chord Part 2: What The Funk?

By Kailash Pate May 07, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Funk is some of best fun you can have on the guitar. It's a party; get on up! The simplicity to the style is a part of its beauty, but also becomes deceptive in how easy it looks. While it is relatively simple musically, the feeling you need to inject...