Transform Your Guitar Singing Experience With This Simple Gadget
If you like to sing and play along on the guitar, or maybe if you’re accompanying another vocalist, this post can hopefully help you to easily find the right key to play your favourite songs, so that they’re right for your voice (or your singer’s voice).
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Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons Review
I recently posted a new review on the site on Jim Bruce’s Ragtime & Blues Guitar Fingerpicking Course, which has 16 full length videos, each of which will teach you to play a classic blues or ragtime song in a fingerpicking style.
If you’d like to build your repertoire of guitar pieces and expand your playing style to include fingerstyle guitar and even slide guitar, then it’d be worth having more of a look at this course.
Here’s a video preview of Jim giving an intro to the fingerpicking blues guitar style, including the intro and a verse of a song called ‘Truckin Little Baby‘ by Blind Boy Fuller:
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Guitar Chord Theory - Seventh Chords
In a previous post on the topic of guitar chord theory, I talked about how regular major chords are created from the 1, 3 & 5th notes of the major scale.
To recap, here are the C Major scale notes, with the 1, 3, 5 notes highlighted:
which leads to the regular C Major chord as played in open position on the guitar:
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OK, so far so good, we have our basic C major chord, and can see where it came from.
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Guitar Courses - Easter Promotions 2010
Just a quick post to say that there are a few Easter promotions going on at the moment for a few of the top learn to play guitar courses.
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Learn And Master Guitar iPhone App
Learn and Master Guitar is one of the most comprehensive courses on learning to play the guitar. Now, they’ve got together with Gibson guitars, to create an iPhone app you can download for free, which contains some sample lessons from the main Learn and Master guitar course.
The app will work both on an iPhone, and also an iPod Touch.
This is an extremely useful little app to have on your iPhone/iPod, as you can have this with you wherever you happen to be playing guitar.
With the app, you’ll be able to:
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Refresh Things with New Guitar Strings
The other day, I finally got around to replacing the strings on my acoustic guitar, something that had been overdue for a while.
As I finished fitting the last new string, and then tuned them up properly, my guitar seemed to have a refreshed sound, from these zingy new strings. It struck me that I should probably change the strings a bit more often, just to get that feeling of refreshing the sound once in a while.
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Guitar Chord Theory - Basic Chord Construction
Have you ever looked at guitar chord charts, and wondered how those chords were constructed? Or were looking for a chart for a particular named chord, but couldn’t find one?
In this series of posts, I’m going to look at some aspects of guitar chord theory, namely how guitar chords are constructed using the notes of various scales. This will hopefully give you an insight into where guitar chords come from, and some idea of how to create chord shapes on the guitar fretboard.
In this post, I’ll talk about how basic chord construction works for guitar chords. Later posts will cover how more complex guitar chords are created, using the same principles. Read the rest of this entry »
Lead Guitar Secrets Review
I’ve just completed a review of Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets course, which is a great course for intermediate / advanced guitarists wanting to get a good understanding of how to play lead guitar solos. Read the rest of this entry »
Create Your Own Jam Tracks
When you’re practising the guitar, especially when you’re practising improvising, it’s great to have a set of good backing jam tracks that you can use to play along with.
There are a few ways to get jam tracks - many guitar courses come with a sample, or you can buy them ready made, or you can record your own from scratch.
One thing I realised recently though, is that you can create your own jam tracks, not by recording them from scratch, but by extracting sections from existing tracks. Read the rest of this entry »
Jamplay Review and Sample Lessons
Jamplay is a membership website with a vast range of video guitar lessons, which caters for all levels of ability and also different genres (rock, blues, jazz, fingerstyle, etc). They have many different instructors, each with their own unique approach to teaching the guitar.
Here’s a sample lesson from instructor Kris Norris, which discusses the use of counterpoint in rock guitar riffs. Watch out for the ’subliminal’ section in this clip! Read the rest of this entry »
