Learn Guitar Online – Practice Traps & How to Escape Them
By Mike P Hayes
Over practicing for your next performance can be a trap because it can lead to information overload, physical burnout and decreased performance. Practice makes perfect right? We’ve all heard that phrase before from music teachers, parents etc., with so many people telling us it’s got to be correct.
Actually, that popular phrase is only half true. To achieve our performance goals we need to make an important distinction. Instead of that phrase.
Here is what we need to know …
“Perfect practice makes perfect.”
Learn Guitar Online, Van Morrison – 3 Tips For Acoustic Guitar
By Mike P Hayes
Bright Side Of The Road, Gloria, Moondance, Brown Eyed Girl, Have I Told You lately, who doesn’t have a favorite Van Morrison song? Like Cat Stevens, Don McLean and James Taylor, Van Morrison’s songs sound great with just one guitar, you don’t need a band to enjoy these great songs.
Another neat thing about Van Morrison’s material is that there’s something for everyone … “Moon Dance” for the Jazz fans, “Gloria” for those who enjoy rock, and “Have I Told You Lately” for lovers.
With songs like “Brown Eyed Girl” in your guitar repertoire you will be the life of the party. Here’s 3 tips to help to play professional versions of Van Morrison songs.
Tip 1: Open Chord Voicings – Moondance – minor seventh chords
Learn Acoustic Guitar – The 13 Most Important Open Chords Explained
By Dave Long
Open chords are one of the first things you learn on acoustic guitar.
The open chords consist of most of the very basic chords used in music, and while not every style makes as much use of them, it is still an important fundamental even to those kinds of music.
What differentiates the open chords from other chords is the use of the open strings within the chord shapes. This feature gives a little more play to some of the chords by allowing the guitarist to fret and unfret strings to form the sustained versions of several chords (chords where the third is replaced by a major second or perfect fourth).
Using sustained chords in the middle of progressions can make bars that really are just one basic chord sound much more interesting than just strumming the chord for the entire time. A very good example of this is the Dsus4,D,Dsus2,D chord riff in the chorus lead in of The Beatles ‘You’ve got to hide your love away”.
Jazz Up Your Blues Guitar
This series will show you a few ways of adding a little jazz flavour to your blues playing. Starting with this lesson on 9th chords. Taught by Justin Sandercoe. Support notes at www.justinguitar.com
10 Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons That Will Bring Out the Creative Guitar Player In You
If you are a beginner in search of free online acoustic guitar lessons, then you are sure to learn a lot from the lessons below. Below are 10 free acoustic guitar lessons from the folks who created Next Level Guitar.
What is Next Level Guitar?
Next Level Guitar is one of the best guitar courses available online today.
It contains Over 100 individual videos starting with Guitar chords and progressing to playing full songs.
How To Choose The Best Songs To Play On Your Guitar
By Kevin Sinclair
When you begin to study how to play the guitar, it’s not all about strumming chords. You have to learn which are the best songs to play on the guitar. As a beginner this can be quite a difficult task. Listed below are some simple tips to help you get to the stage of choosing the correct songs to play.
1. The time to select the songs to play comes after the fundamental skills of guitar playing have been mastered. It may sound very basic but you should be aware of how to hold the guitar correctly, tune the guitar up and strum a few chords prior to advancing to song playing on the guitar.
2. Practice makes perfect and the you need to go over and over all the chords shifting from one to another, continuously moving your fingers, encouraging flexibility within your hand movements.
3. Once you are familiar with the basic chords as well as some of the more complicated chords, a song can be chosen based on the knowledge you have gleaned so far.
Guitar Lesson: Help Yourself To Practice – By Peter Edvinsson
By Peter Edvinsson
What can you do to make it easy for yourself to practice on your guitar? In order to continue to learn to play guitar and not give up you have to create an atmosphere of joy and fun around this activity. Let’s see what you can do to make it as easy as possible to play guitar.
As a you boy I had a lot of interests at the same time. Reading, sporting, playing piano, playing chess, a lot of more things and, of course, playing guitar.
I developed a habit to always have my guitar laying on my bed. Always as I walked into my room my guitar was laying there waiting for me. It was very easy to sit down on my bed starting to play because of two facts:
1. I could see the guitar as I walked into my room which immediately reminded me of how fun it is to play.
Guitar Lesson: Fretboard Education
By Peter Edvinsson
Do you really know the name of the notes on your guitar fretboard? You can learn the notes well and in a short time if you put a little energy into the project!
It will really help you as a guitarist if you know the names of the notes on your guitar. Let’s see some of the benefits you reap from learning to know your guitar:
1. It will be much easier to learn to play sheet music notation as you already know where to find the notes on your guitar. The only remaining task is to learn the names of the notes on the sheet music staff.
2. You will find it much easier to understand chords and remember chords as you easily can see where to put your fingers to play the required notes.
3. It will be easier for you to understand guitar lessons on the net or in guitar instructional books as you understand an important part of the language used in guitar instruction.
Learning To Play The Acoustic Guitar Using Tablature
The acoustic guitar evolved from classic guitars. The strings of an acoustic guitar are typically made from steel rings, as opposed to the nylon or catgut strings used for classical guitars. That is why an acoustic guitar is sometime called a steel-stringed guitar. Acoustic guitars have a clearer and louder sound due to a much stronger construction than other guitars.
A acoustic guitar is usually played using a guitar pick, also called a plectrum (plural plectra), made from plastic, metal, ivory or other materials. The guitarist strums or strikes the guitar strings with the pick, which he will often hold between the index finger and thumb. Other guitarists do not use a pick, but play with their fingernails or bare fingers strumming or plucking individual notes on the guitar.
Electric or Acoustic Guitar – Which is Right for You?
Electric or Acoustic Guitar – Which is Right for You?
By Gray Rollins
So you’ve chosen to take up the guitar. Good for you! Now comes the hard part: which guitar is the best to start playing on? Well, the answer to that question depends on many things. It depends on what kind of music you enjoy listening to, what kind of music you are looking to play, and what kind of level you wish to reach–amateur or professional.
Before we go over each topic, let us first discuss the differences between Electric and Acoustic guitars.
