Understanding Musical Keys on the Guitar
Musical keys on the guitar are a topic that is often over complicated. They appear difficult so many beginners avoid learning them at all. In this article I want to explain how you can find the right chords that fit together in a given key using a little known method known as one, four, five. After reading this article and watching the example you'll be ready to start figuring out keys on your own and a whole new world will open up to you on the guitar neck. Musical...
Read More...The Pattern for Learning Guitar Notes On the Neck
Learning to play different notes up the neck and on each string is an important part of a beginners foundation. After all chords and scales are all made up of a mixture of notes, if you don't know where different notes are located on the neck you'll sort of plateau with your learning sooner then later. In this article I'll show you the simple pattern you can use for learning the guitar notes on each string. We'll first look at half and whole steps between notes and how...
Read More...“I Didn’t Learn Guitar Scales and Got Humiliated (By My Best Friends Little Sister)…”
I was blushing cherry red with embarrassment... I had been playing guitar for about a year and a half - And I thought I was really good too... I could play chords, strum, play lots of songs - and I'd seen guitar scales... But, you know how it is - at the time learning guitar scales didn't seem to do me any good, so I ignored them... Boy Was I Wrong... One bright sunny summer afternoon I called over to a friend's house and got my whole guitar playing world turned...
Read More...Learning Guitar Scales
A tutorial I put onto You Tube explaining the basics of learning guitar scales. This lessons explains what scales are and how you should use them. The tutorial begins by explaining the names of the notes used in western music and then explains how to put these notes together to form scales and chords.
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