Music Instruments, Gears & Audio Equipment

How to buy a Guitar! - Part 2

By March 22, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitars

In our last article we discussed on how to select the guitars that suit your needs without getting distracted and getting confused. The Research Now that you've played a bunch of guitars, and hopefully found a few that you really like. It's time to do some research on all the...

How to buy a Guitar! - Part 1

By March 17, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitars

Buying a new piece of instrument is always a tough task at times, with so many lucrative options available. Musical instruments are always very alluring and 90% of the times one ends up getting distracted and starts checking out super cool instruments, that you can't help, but admire. This 3...

Showing Your Work: The Difference Between 6 And 13

By January 29, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Were you ever discouraged in math class when you were deducted points for not adequately showing all of your work? It seemed like a trivial thing. The answer to 1 + 1 is 2. The answer would always be the answer - and that's all it can be! It's a...

How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own

By January 28, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It's one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to get some rewarding sounds out of it. You could learn a bunch of licks and...

Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6

By January 27, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale when improvising. Here's what we've covered in...

Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside

By January 27, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

I'll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking the lower strings or the higher strings. Seldom never are you required to start from...

Learn A Song : Iron Maiden - 'Aces High' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

By January 26, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Iron Maiden Tech Tips

Standard tuning: E A D G B E Level: Intermediate I've always loved this song. I just think the chorus is great. It's the kind of chorus you sing really loudly whilst quite intoxicated and embarrass your girlfriend in front of her friends and family. The solo in this song...

Make It Musical: Etude Instead Of Just Practicing Exercises

By January 26, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Practicing can be a lot less tedious when you play music instead of many exercises in a row. If you are having trouble with a certain technique, or want to explore what sort of musical capabilities the technique in question offers, you could try to come up with a little...

Should You Be Using Sharps Or Flats When Transcribing Tabs And Chords?

By January 23, 2015 | Acoustic Guitar Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

We will create a chord chart for each key in the major scale. This will show you each chord in a key and when to use sharps and when to use flats when you are transcribing music into tabs and chord sheets. Creating a chord chart in the major (Ionian)...

Lesson Of The Day : 3 Notes Per String Scales/Modes

By January 23, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Hey guys! Here is a simple worksheet that will help guide you through the modes of C Major. I enjoy this because it opens up a whole lot of exercises that I will cover later! Hope you enjoy! Things to focus on: Make sure you are constantly alternate picking Try...