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Playing Rhythm Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you have been wondering what rhythm guitar is and how it fits into a band, then this article should help you. Let's start with the fact that playing rhythm guitar is not a hard ...

There are instruction books for all kinds of guitar playing. The way the instruction is given varies between the different genres with the teaching of music theory for guitar remaining much the same for all ...

Blues Guitar Theory

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

There's not a great deal of theory connected with blues guitar but there certainly is a lot of discussion and a great deal of misunderstanding. Let's start with taking a look at blues in the ...

Play Popular Music On Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Lots of people can play guitar but what music do you play on your guitar when somebody says, "go on, play something"? Do you play a song, an instrumental, a simple classical piece? Songs are ...

Free Guitar Lessons On YouTube

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

People with guitar lessons to sell are taking advantage of the general public's appetite for video clips on YouTube. There are guitar lessons covering any genre you care to name at any level of technical ...

Guitar Video Lessons

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Everybody has at some time dreamt of learning to play the guitar. For one thing, it has found its way into so many different styles of music that whatever your musical preferences, you can find ...

Tab Or Music Notation For Classical Guitarists?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Let's take a look at how we see classical guitarists and standard musical notation. My perception of a classical guitar player is someone who is tied to the sheet music from day one. He will ...

The Best Guitars For Beginners

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

When you go looking for the best guitars for beginners, take a guitar player with you. Electric guitars could have warped necks or rattling hardware and the beginner guitarist will not have a clue that ...

Eric Clapton Guitar Settings - The Woman Sound

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Eric Clapton has used many guitar settings in a career that goes across several decades but people are still fascinated by the sound that people call the "woman" tone. If you don't know what that ...

Learning To Play The Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Many people think that if you are going to start learning to play guitar you just go to your local music teacher. You just show up every week, pay your money, learn your material, go ...

Learning Beginner Guitar Songs from Tabs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

When you get your first guitar and take some lessons, the first thing you want to do is learn to play a song or two. You are painfully aware of your status as a beginner ...

Learn How To Write And Play A Guitar Solo

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you want to learn how to write a guitar solo, you need to see yourself as the teacher. Most people start by learning riffs and licks from records. You don't have to learn whole ...

Learn Guitar - Tab Or Sheet Music?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Many guitarists are adamant that the only way to learn guitar is by learning to read sheet music. Some even go so far as to say that if all guitar tab was removed from the ...

How Long Does It Take To Learn Guitar?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

The age-old question, "how long does it take to learn guitar?". It's natural when starting on a course of learning to ask how long it will take. If you are starting to learn guitar you ...

Is There A Fingerpicking Guitar?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

What is a fingerpicking guitar? There has always been a division of acoustic guitars between "folk" and "classical" which mostly refers to whether the guitar is fitted with nylon or steel strings. A nylon string ...

Easy To Play Guitar Tabs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Guitar tabs are the quickest way for you to get started playing music on your guitar. Tabs are a simple written form of music that many guitar players of a wide range of genres use. ...

Finding Guitar Tabs For Songs And Riffs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

People with a taste for guitar orientated songs often find themselves limited by their own tastes in music. We all have a fairly narrow range of musical experience and we often need some advice on ...

Basic Guitar Theory - Guitar Scales, Chords And Arpeggios

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you want to play the guitar or write songs you will need to know something, at least, about guitar music theory. You could break down guitar theory down to the study of three elements: ...

Learn How To Play The Guitar Online

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

The question often arises about whether online guitar lessons are worth the money. Lots of people still make the local guitar teacher the first port of call when they go looking for guitar lessons. It ...

Fast Guitar Picking

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you want to learn some fast guitar picking you will find plenty of advice on the internet. Do a web search on "fast guitar picking" or "guitar shredding" and you will find exercises and ...