Table of Contents Beginner Fingering ExercisesIntermediate Fingering ExercisesAdvanced Fingering Exercises These exercises are designed to improve accuracy and finger independence. Finger independence is the ability to use each of your four fretting fingers, without any of them depending or interfering with the movement of others. Above the tabs, above each note, is a number from one …
Beginner Techniques And Information
The Blues Scale As the name ‘penta’ would suggest, the pentatonic scale consists of 5 notes. It is a very ...
The Natural Minor Scale Like the major scale, the natural minor scale consists of a set of notes separated by ...
The Penatonic Scale As the name ‘penta’ would suggest, the pentatonic scale consists of 5 notes. It is a very ...
An arpeggio is a chord where the individual notes are played one after another in succession. The word ‘arpeggio’ means ...
In this section we will learn a few important scales and how you can practise and use them in your ...
In some styles of music, particularly in Rock, it is not necessary to play all the notes of a chord. ...
Just as we converted the open E major chord to an E minor chord by changing one note, we can ...
After introducing the major chords, its time to move on to the minor chords. Minor chords have a sadder sound ...
Major Barre Chords In a previous lesson titled ‘Chord basics’, we learnt how to strum basic songs using open chords. ...
So you have your guitar in your hands and you’ve tuned it. Ready to play something that sounds like music? ...
Equipment Basics
3 Monkeys 65AMPS Aiken Alessandro Allen Ampeg Aracom Area 51 Ashdown Auble Bad Cat Behringer Blackstar Bluetone Bogner Budda Cage ...
Abstract Guitars Alembic Alexander James Alvarez American Guitar Works Amfisound Andersen Stringed Instruments Andrews Andy Manson Art & Lutherie Artinger ...
The Nylon String Acoustic (Classical Guitar) The nylon string guitar is often known as a Classical Guitar. The strings are ...
Reverb A reverb effect simulates the sounds that result from reflections of surroundings walls, creating ambience. Imagine being in a ...
Strings Guitar strings over time become dull and faded. In appearance and sound. Old guitar strings can still sound good, ...
The 6-Strings Each of the six strings of the guitar represents a different note on the musical scale. As you ...
Advanced Techniques And Information
Vibrato is Italian meaning tremble or quiver. If you’ve ever listened to an opera singer or a singing diva you ...
What is tapping? Tapping is a method in which we can play long legato phrases that would normally be too ...
Staccato is Italian for ‘detached’. When we apply this to musical notes, we literally aim to make the notes sound ...
Pinch harmonics are those loud squealing notes produced from a distorted or overdriven guitar. Although it is possible to play ...
Alternate picking is when you pick strings in alternating directions. You’ve probably done this yourself automatically to some degree, as ...
Natural Harmonics, are a chiming bell like sound that we can produce with the guitar. We can play them clean, ...
Muting is a commonly used technique to dampen the sound of the strings. There are a number of uses for ...
Hammers, pull-offs and slides Hammers, pull-offs and slides are all names of techniques we use on guitar to get that ...
Harmonizing is when you play more than one note at the same time that sound good together. The simplest form ...
Bending strings is extremely common in most forms of guitar playing. Every guitar player on the planet has at some ...
Accents are a way of adding dynamics to our music. Dynamics are the differences in the way we hit the ...
Have you ever seen a piece of sheet music and wondered what the lines, symbols or what the term ‘key ...
So we’ve learned some scales, we know some chords and we want to get the two to mesh together to ...
Modes, what are they? Modes are a set of different scales that all offspring of the major scale. Modes are ...
What are intervals?Intervals are the measurements of space in between notes. Space as in, how many notes away one note ...
Western music is usually built around major, minor and harmonic minor scales. Other scales and modes we use in western ...
So what is a so called advanced arpeggio? Basically they’re arpeggios that are played very quickly. The most common form ...