Archive | April, 2010
Open String Chords #2
In my last post, I went through a good handful of the most common open string chords for the guitar. All of these traditional chords are played down in the first position of the guitar. For me, things get much more exciting as you start to explore the rest of the neck of your guitar, [...]
Continue reading...Fingerstyle Electric Guitar
30 April 2010
Lets dissect these guitar fingerpicking techniques a little bit, to give you some insight to my style. The Index Fingernail Pick You’ll see a lot of this in the video. There are some real benefits to the techniques involved in using a pick and I definitely didn’t want to lose these (right hand muting, alternate picking, pinch harmonics etc). I [...]
Continue reading...Open String Chords
29 April 2010
This is one of those “back to basics” posts that is always worth doing. As you’ve probably noticed I focus on closed guitar chords that allow me to play in any key quickly and easily. However, whenever I pick up and acoustic guitar, you can bet that the first thing I do is strum all [...]
Continue reading...Melodic Fragments
28 April 2010
Are you interested in really improving your guitar playing dexterity? I don’t mean learning those tired old tricks and shortcuts that bedroom guitarists use to impress their girlfriends. I mean developing the tools, techniques and fundamentals that will carry through to all of your single note playing? Melodic fragments are one of those tools that, though simple [...]
Continue reading...Learn the notes of the guitar neck.
27 April 2010
By the end of this article, you’ll have the tools to learn the position and name of every note on the neck of the guitar. (Assuming you have a pack of playing cards!) Why would you want to do this? Throughout this site there are numerous charts of chords, scales and arpeggios, mapped out for the guitarist. In most cases, [...]
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- admin: Hey Felipe, Glad you like it. If you have any questions, just drop me an email at my googlemail account, and I'll get back to you. jambole0192@g...
- Felipe: Very cool stuff man ! Would love to chat to you more about technique ! Have been incorporating many of the techniques you used for a while (still work...
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- zippy: Of course there is a Bb it is also A#...check fretboard knowledge to know all the notes...good luck!...
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30 April 2010
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