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A gaggle of guitar blogs (glogs?)
2007-12-20 12:12:00 Here’s a few interesting guitar blogs for your perusal (or any other part of your body). “IG BLOG (life-music-guitar) is a place of inspiration, ideas, insight and instruction for anyone interested in making music with guitar. We?re all chasing the dream of playing great guitar, and IG BLOG is a place where you can find ... More About: Guitar , Blogs
Learn To Love Guitar
2007-12-18 22:10:00 Guitar Lessons - online and interactive. Learn toLove Guitar.com guitar lessons are designed to take an absolute beginner and turn them into a true guitarist. They designed their guitar lessons to teach you, not just the how, but the why. The idea of LearnToLoveGuitar.com was created in 2000 by a couple of college students/web designers who ... More About: Guitar
Why Learn Acoustic Guitar?
2007-12-18 06:14:00 Why do you REALLY want to learn to play acoustic guitar? Seriously. Do you know the answer to that question? What’s your TRUE motivation? Maybe you want to earn the respect and admiration of your friends when they see you play an incredible song… Or, maybe you want that amazing sense of pride that ... More About: Guitar , Acoustic , Learn
Learn How To Play Classical Guitar
2007-12-17 12:22:00 Today we feature a free classical guitar lesson from Kent Murdick a man genuinely possessing the desire to pass on the benefit of his experience to guitarists who want to study fingerstyle guitar. Kent demonstrates free stroke technique on the guitar. He plans more videos on achieving right hand finger independence and perhaps a ... More About: Guitar , Play , Classical , Learn , Classical Guitar
Chet Atkins - Great Guitar Player
2007-12-16 09:31:00 Here’s an extract on country guitar player, Chet Atkins from totallyexplained.com: Chester Burton ?Chet? Atkins (June 20, 1924 ? June 30, 2001) was an influential guitarist and record producer. His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene. Atkins produced ... More About: Guitar , Player , Great , Guitar Heroes
House Of The Rising Sun Tabs And Chords
2007-12-14 11:30:00 In our never-ending search for interesting ways to approach learning to play the guitar, we’ve found an old song that every guitarist, electric or acoustic, drunk or sober, should know how to play. It’s featured in “Easy Songs For Beginners” on Guitar Noise . . . “For those of you who have always thought ... More About: House , Chords , Tabs , Rising Sun , Chord
Acoustic guitar secrets
2007-12-13 13:20:00 Dan Denley’s Acoustic Guitar Secrets course has been released. From what I can tell, it could be a complete sell out. Why? Simple. This is probably THE most comprehensive study of acoustic guitar you’ll find available anywhere on the planet. Here’s a sample video lesson from the course. The course is made up of five ...
Free Acoustic Blues Video Lesson
2007-12-12 04:24:00 Here’s a simple acoustic blues song that uses fingerpicking. I just found it on Dan Denley’s blog. Check out the video here Dan is releasing his “Acoustic Guitar Secrets” on Wed, Dec 12 (next week). It’s a massive home-study course that focuses exclusively on acoustic guitar. Here’s just a few of the skills you’ll ... More About: Video , Blues , Free , Lesson
Nylon String Acoustic Guitar
2007-12-11 10:55:00 The nylon string acoustic guitar has a softer, mellower sound than the steel string guitar. It’s entirely up to you which one you choose to play. I could cite a list of artists who used either nylon or steel string for this or that record, but we could only guess at why the artists ... More About: Guitar , Acoustic , String , Nylon
Make Your Own Electric Guitar
2007-12-10 12:10:00 The idea of this article on making your own electric guitar is to give you a real, practical idea of the magnitude of the job and the skills, tools and raw materials needed to make your own electric guitar. The original electric guitar was a railway sleeper with strings made by Les Paul. He ... More About: Guitar , Make , Electric , Electric Guitar
The Lure Of The Nylon String Guitar
2007-12-09 11:28:00 I am just going to go through the main aspects of the nylon string guitar to give you some idea the beauty of this instrument as a stepping stone for beginner guitarists or as the subject of a lifelong devotion. Although a nylon string guitar fan can go on and on about the wonderful ... More About: Guitar , String , Nylon , Lure
Free Video Guitar Lesson Inspired By The Eagles
2007-12-07 13:42:00 Donald William Felder (born September 21, 1947 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American rock musician, best known as guitarist for The Eagles from 1974-1980 as well as from 1994-2001, and for the distinctive ?Hotel California? guitar solo. Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. With ... More About: Video , Guitar , Free , Lesson
New Self-Tuning Guitar
2007-12-06 12:10:00 Musicians of the world are getting a new kind of artistic freedom with technology that eliminates the challenging chore of tuning. For users who purchase the add-on technology, the guitar recognizes pitch. Then, its processor directs motors on its six tuning pegs to tighten or loosen the strings accordingly. Tronical has offered its “Powertune System” ... More About: Guitar , Tuning
Female Guitar Players
2007-12-05 11:47:00 Lack of strength is a likely reason why women don’t take up - or stick with - the guitar. Since those troublesome fingerings, particularly barre chords, may require substantial strength which can sometimes intimidate beginning female students more than men. This is in spite of the fact that chords usually only require great strength ... More About: Players , Female , Guitar
Female Guitar Players
2007-12-04 06:25:00 Lack of strength is a likely reason why women don’t take up - or stick with - the guitar. Since those troublesome fingerings, particularly barre chords, may require substantial strength which can sometimes intimidate beginning female students more than men. This is in spite of the fact that chords usually only require great strength ... More About: Players , Female , Guitar
Free Guitar Lessons: Making The Most Of The Internet
2007-12-03 12:31:00 Now that the guitar heroes of the 1970’s are quaint old men who never went bald, we should ask ourselves what we are trying to gain by taking guitar lessons. You see, the advent of the sex, drugs and rock’n'roll era added an extra dimension to music. For many years now it’s been considered ... More About: Internet , Guitar , Free , The Internet , Lessons
New video guitar lesson
2007-12-02 06:17:00 Here is a nice video lesson on arpeggios. For some reason a lot of people get a bit confused over arpeggios - this video lesson on arpeggios for guitarists should blow away some of the fog! This video comes from Dan Denley’s new Acoustic Guitar Secrets course which is coming December 12. He’s actually released ... More About: Video , Lesson
Recording your guitar playing
2007-11-30 06:09:00 It’s necessary to get yourself some kind of recorder so you’ll have an of idea about what your efforts on the guitar sound like. Recording your guitar playing is a relatively simple affair these days as this reminiscence from the ’60’s shows: “The first time I dabbled with recording was in about 1962 on a ... More About: Guitar , Cord
Django Reinhardt
2007-11-28 12:22:00 Here’s a video of Django Reinhardt with “The Quintet Of the Hot Club Of France” 1939 with Django on lead guitar and Stephane Grappelli on violin, Django’s brother Joseph and Pierre Feret are playing the “backup” guitars, with Emmanuel Soudieux on string bass. Technorati Tags: Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli More About: Guitar Heroes
Free Guitar Video Lessons
2007-11-26 21:08:00 Private one-on-one guitar lessons may be what you want, but if you are on a budget and just want to try learning guitar without spending heaps of money JamPlay is a great option for learning how to play the guitar. If you go looking for a guitar teacher you might end up paying $50 ... More About: Video , Guitar , Free , Lessons
Read back issues of Acoustic Guitar Notes
2007-11-26 07:55:00 Acoustic Guitar Notes (formerly AG Wire) is a free ”opt-in” e-newsletter delivered right to your e-mailbox every month. Acoustic Guitar Notes is packed with music news, gear tips, and information about giveaways, latest books, upcoming features in Acoustic Guitar magazine, and hot spots on the Web. A few of the subjects covered are: Flying with your ... More About: Acoustic , Issues , Read
Free Video Guitar Lessons
2007-11-25 10:52:00 These free video guitar lessons by Peter Vogl will teach you some music theory for the guitar. An octave is equal to twelve frets on the guitar. For example, you can play an E note with either the open 6th string or by playing the 6th string at the 12th fret. We’ll also look at ... More About: Video , Guitar , Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Free country-style picking lesson
2007-11-23 12:48:00 Many people associate playing guitar using thumbpick and fingers with Chet Atkins, but he began playing in this style after watching Merle Travis. Here’s a free “Travis Picking ” lesson. If you don’t have a thumbpick, it’s okay, just use the side of your thumb. And if you aren’t interested in trying this style of ... More About: Country , Free , Style , Lesson
Distinctive guitar player
2007-11-22 11:57:00 Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Toronto, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments?including piano ... More About: Guitar , Player , Guitar Heroes
Free Blues Guitar Lessons
2007-11-21 12:02:00 Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed English and Scots-Irish narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in ... More About: Blues , Guitar , Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Learn to play guitar from downloaded videos
2007-11-20 10:41:00 If you want to learn to play a guitar for free using nothing but videos downloaded from YouTube and similar sites, you might want to consider a new piece of software which at the moment is available for free on a trial basis. It’s nice to be able to download videos of your favorite guitar ... More About: Videos , Guitar , Play , Learn
A minor pentatonic for improvising
2007-11-19 13:37:00 The A minor pentatonic scale has five notes: G A C D E You can play it starting on the low E string at the fifth fret like this: A C D E G A C D E G A C Here’s ... More About: Scales , Minor , Penta
Free licks
2007-11-17 23:21:00 Free Licks has a nice collection of free guitar video lessons updated frequently. Here’s a taste: Guitar Lessons Scorpions “Wind of Change” solo Here is a cool solo that’s not too fast (suitable for intermediate guitarists) but still yields some cool licks. It is also important to pay attention to the bends and vibrato - and practice this ... More About: Free
Learn The Notes On The Guitar
2007-11-16 11:05:00 Guitar Lesson: Five Ways To Learn The Notes On The G uitar By Peter Edvinsson To find your way around the fretboard of the guitar is very important. It will help you in guitar improvisation, sight reading, and in understanding chords and more. In this guitar lesson we will explore five ways to learn the notes on ... More About: Guitar
More free guitar lessons
More articles from this author:2007-11-15 12:49:00 Here’s a selection of free guitar lessons and resources for people who want to learn how to play a guitar. I recommend you put these pages in your bookmarks and explore them in depth. The NoteFind Tool With the NoteFind tool, you can display named notes on a fretboard. This lets you see all of the ... More About: Guitar , Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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