JGuitar
JGuitar is a set of useful tools for players of stringed instruments. JGuitar's powerful chord and scale calculators replace traditional chord and scale dictionaries by providing dynamic calculation which works for any stringed instrument in any tuning. Users can alter the tunings of the instruments and even the instruments themselves. In fact, JGuitar was designed to work with any number of strings or frets. Our best of breed tools are gaining a reputation as the best on the web.
30+ Insanely Useful Websites for Guitarists
The guitar is an instrument that knows no genre and no boundaries--one of the reasons why it's arguably the world's most beloved instrument. Here are over 30 incredibly useful (and often entertaining) websites dedicated to the guitar and its admirers. Must-see sites 1.
Melodic Minor Scale Fingerings - Five Positions
The melodic minor scale is one of the most common scales that guitarists learn when they first begin their exploration of the linear aspect of the instrument. In this short primer to the melodic minor scale, you will learn how the scale is built, how to practice it from a technical standpoint, how to use it in an improvisational context and how to play the five basic fingerings for this scale across the guitar. Have a question or comment about this lesson?
16 Legendary Fingerpicking Patterns
For tabs see below. Fingerpicking style is a technique that is used in many famous and legendary songs over the years. The 16 examples in this post are a good source to learn the most common fingerpicking patterns you will ever come across. The fingerpicking patterns can be applied to almost every folk, pop, country or rock song. Try and figure out which pattern suits your favorite song.
The 13 scariest pieces of classical music for Halloween
Celebrate Halloween in macabre style with these bone-chilling masterpieces! Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain The image of brooding, winged ghouls wreaking havoc on a mountain village under cover of night has terrified generations of young children in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
How to Play Bebop Scale Patterns for Guitar
One of the most widely used concepts in jazz improvisation; the Bebop Scale has long been a staple in the vocabulary of many of the genres great artists. Therefore it is an essential sound to get under your fingers when learning how to play bebop jazz guitar. When learning how to play jazz guitar, many players study this scale, they often practice it descending only, or with its related Dominant 7th Arpeggio ascending on the front end, but few people work this scale with patterns and phrases as they would the Pentatonic Scale or Major Scale. For this reason, I’ve compiled 21 different patterns that you can use to practice Bebop Scale fingerings on the guitar, most of which come from David Baker’s Bebop books, and all of which come from the jazz tradition and can be found in the solos of greats such as Wes Montgomery, Johnny Smith, Charlie Parker and many more. Before you dive in to these patterns, check out my article on Bebop Scale fingerings. Bebop Scale Patterns for Guitar
Guitar Lessons : Steve Vai's 30 Hour Workout - 30 hour path to virtuoso enlightenment or how to destroy your pop career in one easy lesson
In this section, I'll explain methods to help you find your unique voice as a guitarist, and explain techniques that can aid your expression on the instrument. These laner items include vibrato, bent notes, harmonics, whammy-bar stunts and dynamics. Everything I've told you thus far will help you in your quest to become an accomplished guitar player. However, remember that all the exercises, scales, theory and whatnot are just devices that can help you express yourself more freely on your instrument.
I Will Destroy This Robot Sheet-Music Sight-Reader, I Swear I Will
Sight-reading complex musical notation takes years of training, hundreds or thousands of hours of practice, sitting in front of the piano, a metronome drilling its infernal clicks into your brain. Eventually you'll gain the ability to read and perform just about any piece of music that's set in front of you, without ever having seen it before. It does not come easily, and it is not a natural skill; you have to keep practicing to retain it. Each month you don't practice takes two months to earn back the power you've squandered. It is a human achievement, a way in which we force our brains and fingers and feet and eyes to perform a task we are not born able to do. I was classically trained in piano for about twelve years, and this stupid little gadget has immediately negated all of my hard work.
