Blues You Can Use: Learn Sizzling Electric Blues Guitar
Learn Electric Blues Guitar Learn how to play guitar with John Ganapes's Blues You Can Use: A Complete Guide to Learning Blues Guitar. If you want to play blues guitar, Blues You Can Use will get you going right.… [...]
The Best Way To Learn How to Play Guitar
What's the Best Way to Learn How to Play Guitar? There are many excellent ways to learn and improve your guitar playing. The key is to find the methods that work best for you. This is a great time to be a guitar… [...]
Buying a Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar
Semi-hollow guitars like the Gibson ES-335 and the Epiphone Dot are closer to solid-body guitars than are hollow-body archtops. Unamplified, you could hear yourself playing, but would barely be heard across the… [...]
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Learn Solo Guitar Online With Martin Taylor
Great news for solo, fingerstyle jazz guitar students! Martin Taylor is offering online guitar instruction at the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy. Martin Taylor is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest fingerstyle jazz guitarists. Hear Martin Taylor at iTunes. Check out Martin Taylor's Amazon. Learn Solo Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar The Martin Taylor Guitar Academy features over 100 HD video lessons starting from beinners’ basics to advanced, performance techniques. Best of all, players at all levels have a chance to interact directly with Martin Taylor. Academy members have … [ Read more...]
Free Guitar Chord Grids, Fretboard Diagrams, Tablature and Staffs
At Make Guitar Music, we're happy to provide whatever free guitar downloads we can to help you make guitar music. Check out the Free Downloads page for more guitar playing resources. Free Guitar Downloads: PDFs For starters, we're releasing these PDF files which feature staff, tablature and chord blanks: Musical Staff Tablature Staff Chord Grids Fretboard Diagrams Chord and Fretboard Grids Open the Guitar and Fretboard Grids here. To save a copy, right click on the page and select "Save as...". Standard Notation Staff and Tablature Staff Open the Standard … [ Read more...]
Free Online Guitar Tuners: Play Online or Download
As part of Make Guitar Music's "Online and Downloadable" series, here are a couple of online and downloadable guitar tuners. These utilities let you hear the notes you need to tune your guitar in standard tuning, and for some, in alternate guitar tunings, such as DADGAD. See this post for information about buying a chromatic guitar tuner. Free Online Guitar Tuners Here are some sites that offer onlne guitar tuners. Play the reference notes for tuning your guitar by ear. Online Tuner at Guitar For Beginners for tuning your guitar in standard (EADGBE) tuning. Online Tuner at Get … [ Read more...]
Hone Your Guitar Playing Skills: Play Guitar Songs
If you've been following this Purposeful Practice Series from the beginning, then you've set some goals, and have been working toward them. Maybe your current goals are working through a method book, or learning blues guitar, or fingerpicking. But one of your bottom-line goals has to be — learning to play guitar songs, from start to finish, at your current performance level. It doesn't matter if it's five songs or 100, but you've got to keep a current list of tunes that are in your repertoire. Add this new guitar-practice goal — to develop a repertoire of five songs. Write down … [ Read more...]
Great Holiday Gift Ideas for Guitar Players
Snark Chromatic Guitar Tuner I'm starting to see this nifty little clip-on guitar tuners all over the place. They have a nice, unobtrusive design with an easy-to-read display. The Snark Guitar Tuner clip to the headstock and pick up the wood vibrations. So they'll even work if you're tuning your guitar — acoustic or electric — in a noisy room. Best of all, they're reasonably priced. Buy the Snark Clip-On Chromatic Guitar Tuner at Amazon. Buy the Snark Clip-On Chromatic Guitar Tuner at Music 123. Keith Richards Biography: A Life "Life" a fine title for an autobiography of … [ Read more...]
Accessories
Buying a Guitar Capo
A capo is a clamp-like device used on the guitar's neck to shorten the strings and thus raise the pitch. Capos typically have a rubber-covered bar that clamps over the fretboard in a variety of … [more...]
Buying The Right Guitar Pick
Unless you're going to be playing classical guitar, or bare-finger fingerstyle guitar, you're going to be using guitar picks. The Plectrum Guitar Pick You'll use your guitar pick to strum … [more...]
Books, videos and software
Blues Rhythm Guitar: Master the Electric Blues
The Complete Guide to Shuffles, Boogies, Jump, Slow Blues, and Other Blues Styles Blues Rhythm Guitar Master Class by Keith Wyatt really delivers. It's an excellent book that will have you … [more...]
Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar: The Ultimate Tuning
Mel Bay presents Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar DADGAD is becoming such a popular alternate tuning for acoustic guitarists that's it's called "the other standard tuning." Mel Bay … [more...]
Your Guitar-Buying Guide
How to Get a Guitar at a Good Price
When you're ready buy, be prepared to do some wheeling and dealing. Find out what your guitar costs at a reputable online dealer. Since most guitar sellers work on a commission, he may be willing … [more...]
Buying a Classical Guitar
The nylon-string acoustic guitar is also known as a "classical guitar" since it's used in the classical guitar repertoire. But, it is also heard in a variety of other styles including folk, jazz, … [more...]
Guitar Tips and Tricks
How To Track Your Guitar Playing Progress for Maximum Results
You've diligently been practicing your guitar. You can tell that you're improving. Chord changes are coming easier. You're getting songs up to tempo. You know inside that you're getting better. … [more...]
How to Practice Guitar With a Metronome
A metronome is a mechanical device that provides a click sound at a selected tempo. The metronome lets you learn to control the timing of the music. Critics of metronome practice rightfully … [more...]
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