Why being a self-taught guitarist is possible (but not a good idea)
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Would you like to add some lead elements to your guitar riffs or chord progressions, but you’ve never done something creative before? If you are not experienced in improvising, an easy way to get started is to use the pentatonic scale. The good thing about the pentatonic scale is that it is easy to memorize
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Roman numerals To make life easier, this formula is also notated in Roman numerals where upper case numerals are followed by the quality of the chord: I IImi IIImi IV V VImin VIIdim A variation of this is using upper case numerals to indicate the major chords and lower case numerals to
Guitar chords by key (and how to use them in songwriting) Read More »
Many beginner guitar players tend to find changing from one guitar chord to another pretty hard. Playing beginners tunes one note at a time is pretty easy, forming chord shapes and memorizing them is not that hard either, (though this depends on what the chord is), but when it comes to change guitar chords: How
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“[Heavy metal] has as one of its central elements the element of hatred” Dr. Paul King, Live Buzz 93, in my country Malta, was my first Heavy Metal gig, and I couldn’t say I hadn’t been warned. I knew that this went beyond skipping mass on Sunday, or doubting the existence of God, as I
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If you are learning to read standard notation on your instrument, this article contains steps that can make the whole process much easier and faster. Get the goal tempo. Play a recording of the piece from a play-along audio track that many reading books come with. Use the ‘tap’ feature of your metronome. (First of
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Learning the guitar is a long but rewarding journey. This is what you need to know before you start. When you start learning the guitar, you are clueless. You don’t know what you will need to learn, how to learn it, in what order, whether you have what it takes, how long will it take,
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Simply put, arpeggios on the guitar are the same notes you play when you strum a chord, one note at a time. For this reason, I used to believe that playing a guitar arpeggio meant plucking the notes of the chord I was playing (ex. a) instead of strumming them (ex. b) Though frequently called
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Many exercises, riffs and licks on the guitar are made of notes coming from strings adjacent to each other. String skipping is a technique where you play notes from strings of wider distances, either all the time, or partially. This gives you the ability to play wider intervals on the guitar, that is, notes that
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