One thing that used to confuse me when I started learning guitar was the relationship between the notes on the neck. Looking at guitar notes on the fretboard, they seemed like a bunch of notes thrown there together with no relationship with each other. I used to think, that good guitar players could pick notes […]
Learning guitar scales can either be the most tedious aspect of your musical journey, or a fun aspect you can never get enough of.This all depends on how you learn guitar scales and whether you use them to create music. Before I show you how to learn scales, I’ll explain how not to learn guitar […]
One of the benefits the guitar has over many other instruments is that you can easily play chords on it. On a guitar you can play up to six notes at the same time. On the piano you can play up to ten (as many fingers as you have) but on violin it’s hard to […]
Have you just started writing your first power chord guitar riffs? Power chords are cool aren’t they? And they seem to fit in everywhere. Well, there’s a reason for that, something I explain detail in this lesson on power chord theory. The short answer to why power chords fit in easily more than major and […]
Can you (quite) easily transition from a C to a D chord but don’t know what guitar scales are, let alone how to use them? Do you know a few chords and songs but don’t know what guitar skills you need to acquire to reach the next level? Welcome to an exciting stage in learning […]
There are mainly two reasons why I was never interested in computerized guitar riff generators when I had made it a goal to learn riffs and write them myself. I found it hard to believe that a computer can ever come up with riffs like Crazy Train, Whole Lotta Love or Hell’s Bells. There are […]
When I came up with my first guitar lick, using the A minor pentatonic scale in its most commonly used guitar scale pattern, I was over the moon. It sounded like the real thing, and it was. I went back to my A minor pentatonic scale and came up with another guitar lick, and another […]
One of the first things every aspiring jazz guitarist quickly realizes is that jazz is hard. Really hard. And once they realize what they’ve gotten themselves into they inevitably start looking for ‘The Secret’. That one scale, arpeggio or II-V-I that will make them a seasoned jazz man or jazz girl overnight. Well, I’m afraid […]
If string bending and vibrato are the techniques the lead guitar player can’t get enough of, palm muting technique is the one rhythm guitar players cannot do without. For good reason. As we’ll explore below, palm muting technique gives a different sound to the same note/chord you’re strumming, thus it gives you an infinite amount […]
If you are learning scales on guitar, you have probably encountered guitar scale sequence exercises like this: Or this: These exercise are just two examples of guitar scale sequences you may use on the A minor pentatonic scale. The purpose behind these exercises is that the scale gets ingrained in your head, that you […]