What Are The Essential Chords To Learn On Guitar?

April 8, 2012 by admin

Any list of the essential chords to begin learning on guitar must first include all of the open chords.

These would be

C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, D, E, A

and to that we could also add a B7 since it is an open chord which thankfully provides a great substitute for replaying be much more difficult barre chord version of B major.

From there you should go into your dominant seven chords which would include these as the most essential to begin with…

C7, D7, E7, G7, A7 and of course we have already learned a B7.

Next in line would probably be the 4 main barre chord shapes, these barred chords are difficult initially to do however with committed practice and a healthy dose of patience and perseverance you will eventually learn how to play them just as easily as your open chords such as G or Em!

I promise they are well worth the effort since they will expand the vocabulary of songs you can pay on guitar by many thousands. Which is quite impressive if you think about it.

Of course, just learning the shapes of guitar chords is not nearly enough. You must spend a significant amount of time practicing going between all of them in little cycles in order to gain complete fluency in terms of how fast you are able to change from one chord to another. Many songs are deceptively simple and it’s only when you try to play along with it that you realize just how quickly many of the chords are changing. If you have not yet built up enough speed between the changing of your chords you will struggle to keep up with the song and be forever falling behind. This is a classic problem with beginners is always indicative of the fact that they have rushed into learning songs too early and before they have spent enough time practicing naked chord changes without any song in mind.

You do not need to pay for guitar lessons in order to learn all of these essential guitar chords. Simply go to YouTube.com and and search for “guitar chords” or “barre chords” for example and you will find an anonymous amount of free advice and tuition some of which has been uploaded by the premier guitar sites on the Internet as a way off introducing you to the quality of their guitar tuition.

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Easy Acoustic Guitar Songs For Beginners

March 26, 2011 by admin

Let’s start off with a list of classic and easy acoustic guitar songs for beginners

  • Heart Of Gold – Neil Young
  • Horse With No Name – America
  • Maybe Tomorrow – Stereophonics
  • Knockin On Heavens Door – Bob Dylan
  • Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
  • Take It Easy – The Eagles
  • Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

The most common chords you’ll need to play all these beginner guitar songs and 100′s of others are…

C, Dm, D, Em, E, F, G, Am, A, Bm, B7

These chords will allow any beginner guitarist to form 2 complete keys – C major and G major. Songs are written withing musical keys on it makes perfect sense to learn chords within the context of keys rather than as random unconnected chord shapes. When you also add a guitar capo into the mix this little system becomes very popular and will open the door to many easy acoustic guitar songs.

The guitar strums you’ll need are actually very simple and the best ones to learn are universal strums which can be applied to lots of different songs at once. In one popular online guitar lessons site they refer to them as

  • Strum No.1
  • Strum No.2
  • Strum No.3
  • Shuffle Strum
  • Accent Strum
  • 3/4 Strum
  • Country Strum

Spend some time (probably a few months from scratch) practicing changing chords in typical song progressions and developing a solid sense of rhythm in your strumming. Once you get some fluency there you’ll find that all of a sudden there will be ton’s of easy guitar songs for you to play on acoustic guitar.

Learning how to play songs on guitar is a great way to keep your motivation for learning guitar high. When the going gets tough it will sustain and encourage you to keep going which is so important to success on the instrument.

Search around on internet for free and easy acoustic guitar song lessons and you’ll be very please with the amount of great instruction available out there and completely free. Use it!

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Guitar Picking Precision

November 30, 2010 by admin

Guitar Picking Precision

Once you have reached the stage in your guitar growth where you are starting to get a grasp of the concept and ideas behind guitar solo, you are considered as an intermediate guitar player. Doing guitar solo is a completely different world compared to back when you were still a beginner. Its serious stuff, your legacy and your reputation is at hand. That is why it is important for you to find out stuff and determine the things that you need to learn in this stage of guitar learning.  But don’t worry; we have prepped up some stuff for you to make things a lot easier.

Guitar Picking Precision | Accuracy is the name of the game

Sometimes, people place too much emphasis with our picking hand. It’s all about speed and speed and picking stuff. However, I won’t deny that picking skills are important. But accuracy is also an important factor that you should practice. And if your right hand is accurate so should your left hand be. Accuracy with both hands would be perfect if you are planning to be good at guitar soloing, you must practice your accuracy on both hands, not just on the left or right hand. Although it would be difficult, it is never impossible to attain it.

Guitar Picking Precision | Conclusion

No matter how difficult your tasks ahead are, never give up on it. Those people who gave up on playing the guitar have weak motivation and are uninspired. So this I say to you, be inspired, be motivated. If you wanted to push through, do it. It’s all about how you deal with the challenges. There are no challenges that are unattainable. Everything is possible in the guitar world. You can do all things your guitar hero does, just have the same amount of passion and motivation. So now, you could start with practicing your guitar picking precision.

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How to Practice

November 29, 2010 by admin

How to Practice

First and foremost, you need to determine the importance of practice and its definition. Practice is very much different from performance and also performance is not the same with practice. Once you are performing, you are playing a piece or a song entirely or as a whole. It should be played as it should suppose to be played. Whatever mistakes you did can’t be reversed and that would be part of history. Practice however is the time where you would purify all mistakes. Any imperfections that you had should be honed into perfection. That is what practice is all about.

How to practice | Definition of Practice

Define practice. Practice is not working out your guitar skills until you are exhausted. It is all about getting used with the process of doing the skill and the only way you could get used to it is doing it over and over again. However, part of this procedure is not making any room for mistakes and not tolerating it. If you made a mistake, you should do it over and over again until you perfect it. That’s how it is. Also you don’t rush into learning a lot of things all at once. That would ruin everything. You don’t have to rush things when practicing.

How to Practice | procedure

The best way to practice is setting up a well – organized procedure. Categorizing each factor and grouping every technique or skill that you are planning to hone. Also, assigning a fixed duration of time to each category, a specific time duration which is sufficient for that skill. This is how your organize your practice. Also, breaks are important. Make it part of your practice habits to have a break in between. It allows you process the information that you learned much better. This is how to practice effectively.

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Buying Your First Electric Guitar

November 14, 2010 by admin

Buying Your First Electric Guitar

buying your first electric guitar

Buying Your First Electric Guitar

Being able to buy your very first electric guitar is one hell of an achievement for your part as a person and as an aspiring guitar player. The electric guitar is much more proffered by a lot of aspiring guitarists compared to the acoustic guitar. Well, the acoustic is good but let’s face it; electric guitar is rock and roll’s perfect embodiment. The problem with choosing your first guitar is that there are so many specifications and technical jargon that means completely rubbish to beginners that they have to face and that alone is enough to make someone’s head spin in confusion. So to help you on that, here am ME to the rescue!

Buying Your First Electric Guitar – What you need

Here are the basic stuff that you need for you to be able to begin your journey as a guitar player

-          First and foremost, you need an electric guitar. This is the most obvious part.

-          Of course, you need something to plug your guitar with. An amplifier is very much needed.

-          To plug your guitar to the amplifier, you will need an instrument cable. Maybe around 6 feet long would suffice.

-          Extra Guitar Strings

-          A box of guitar picks.

Buying Your First Electric Guitar – Choosing a guitar

If you have the resources, you could pretty much choose any high – end guitar brand and model. But depending on the style you are planning to play, you should take that also into consideration. But for beginners, a good guitar is good enough. You could try the Squire Starter Pack. It’s the guitar that is perfect for Beginners and has everything they need to begin with. So if you are buying your first electric guitar, take these things into consideration and you will be fine.

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guitar lessons

October 8, 2010 by admin

If you are a beginner guitar player and you want to know where to find the most reliable guitar lessons on the Internet, then here is how to save you from a lot of headache. Guitar lessons are all over the place. You can find them and books, you can find it on DVD and of course you can find it online. Online guitar lessons are the most abundant oval guitar lessons types. But to find a reliable one, this very essential that you understand what are the things that guitar lessons should have for you to be able to call it reliable. Guitar lessons should be beginner friendly. Meaning, the lessons should be made specifically for beginner guitar players because they need a specialized form of teaching for them to be interested and excited about guitars. It should be a reasonably priced, and should be easy to acquire and understand. Understanding is an essential part. Students should really understand and lessons well or else they would not learn anything. The sister reason why beginner guitar lessons is separated from other lessons to provide maximum efficiency. So if you want to learn efficiently, look for to write beginner guitar lessons on the Internet.

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Play like your guitar Heroes

September 6, 2010 by admin

One of the most common reasons why a person decides to learn guitar is because he wants to become or play like his guitar hero. If that is the case, I could give you some tips. That is if you dig the music of legendary guitar hero, Chuck Berry. So if you want to play like him and you don’t know where to start, I have just the right thing to get you going. This would definitely save you from the hassle of searching for it elsewhere. And by the moment you finish reading this article, you shall be enlightened about how to play like your guitar hero.

So first, you have to have the gear. He uses a Gibson 350Et before and later on, switched into a Gibson ES 330 and ES 355. For amps, he used to use an Epiphone and later on, switched into a Fender Dual Showman for his ES 355. All of the amps he used were tube amps.

For techniques, he uses a lot of double stops, a two – note chords that he often uses in his intro and solos. He also uses a blues – shuffle rhythm for the verses.

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Learn to play like BB King

September 3, 2010 by admin

If you really want to be like the masters, you must grab the gear, learn the technique and feel the music. Especially if you want to be like B.B. King, you need to learn how he does his music. So if you want to play like BB King, today is your lucky day because you are now facing useful information that you could get to play like your guitar hero. This would save you from the frustration that you might get if you didn’t get to imitate BB King.  By the time you finish reading this article, you would then have an idea how to start learning how to play like BB King.

So first, we should know the equipment that he uses, if you really want to play like him. This is necessary because to create the same sound, you must use the same equipment.

BB King uses Gibson for 40 years until they actually joined forces to create his signature guitar, Gibson ES 335 Lucille. The Signature model features a fine-tuner tailpiece, semi hollow body with no sound holes. He uses no distortion at all, just a warm overdriven tone. He also plays a lot of pentatonic / blues scales variations as well.

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Picks

August 27, 2010 by admin

As a beginner, you might not be accustomed to playing with guitar picks, maybe you are using your fingers as of now, but I tell you, unless you are only planning to play Fingerstyle guitar, you should really learn how to use the plectrum or pick. So if you want to know more about this guitar accessory that is widely used all over the world, you could always try reading this article for I have just the right information about it, the necessary things that you need to know about it. By the time you finish reading this article, you will have a vivid idea about what I am talking about and you would know the importance of guitar picks to us guitar players in our guitar playing career. So sit back, relax and read further.

Picks come in different forms, sizes, thickness and components. Usually, picks are categorized into thickness, there are light, medium and heavy. Personally I prefer the medium once since I am into blues. Heavy picks are perfect for high speed guitar shredding and the light ones, nice for plucking. The tone of the guitar is strongly affected by the type of pick that you will use.

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Inspiration to write

August 21, 2010 by admin

Do you have troubles writing a new song? Do you experience this so – called “writer’s block” when writing songs? There are lots of factors that could affect this problem. Some are not really problems, but no matter what it is, we have solutions here, ready…

  1. Trouble writing a song – sometimes, no matter what we do, we just can’t make a riff or words to a song. This is because we are uninspired. We don’t know what to write about. We don’t know where to direct ourselves to create a song. The solution to this is to keep in mind that anything and anyone can be an inspiration.
  2. First song syndrome – can’t seem to write your first song? Don’t force it, the song would come to you in due time if this is your first time. Don’t push yourself to write your first song because if you are really inspired, it would come in overflowing proportions.
  3. Not being contented with what you wrote – this is a very common problem with songwriters, back in the days, I couldn’t write songs because of this. The solution to this is to love every song that you wrote. Don’t throw away any song just because you don’t like it.

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