Bluegrass Guitar Lesson: Scale & Warmup Exercises Scale & Warmup Exercises by Bert Casey is a free lesson for bluegrass guitar. These exercises are intended to improve your flatpicking skills. We'll first cover a basic G scale and then work on some alternate picking exercises that will help build up your right hand speed. After you have finished working with these exercises, try moving on to our Speed & Finger Exercises video lesson by Curtis Jones. Most lead bluegrass guitar playing or flatpicking is based on the G scale. Once you are comfortable with the G Scale, try this 4 note ascending exercise. After you are comfortable with the 4 note ascending exercise, try the 4 note descending exercise. Try incorporating these scales and exercises into your playing. Featured Product Speed & Finger Exercises by Curtis Jones is a downloadable Quicktime video lesson about building speed for playing bluegrass guitar. Watch sample clips: Quicktime or Flash Bluegrass Guitar Products
Guitar Lesson: Blues Note Riffs Blues Note Riffs is a free video lesson that will teach you a few standard riffs using the blues scale. We'll learn a lick and then learn other places on the neck where we can play it. In the video we will use the audio jam track "Am blues", which is track 4, from the Let's Jam! Blues and Rock CD. Watch the lesson: Quicktime or Flash Let's review the Blues Scale in the key of A. Here’s the first riff using the A Blues Scale. I can play this riff in another position. And here’s another place I can play the same exact riff. If I use the Extended Am Pentatonic scale, I can attach all three riffs. Now attach all three licks. Now let’s hear what these licks sound like in context with track 4 of the Let's Jam! Featured Product Classic Blues Licks by Peter Vogl is a Quicktime video lesson that will teach you how to play some famous blues guitar licks. Watch a preview: Quicktime or Flash Other Blues Guitar Products
Learn The Guitar Fingerboard Thoroughly in 16 Days Photo by John W. Tuggle If I have to name two things that took my guitar playing to the next level I would say music theory and memorizing the fingerboard. It made me understand the big picture. Combining music theory (understanding scales, modes, chord structure, improvising over chord progressions, etc, etc.) and knowing all the notes on the fingerboard will open up a whole new world. Guitar playing becomes more fun when you know what, when en where to play it on the fingerboard. When you want to know where to play any type of chord shape instantly it’s pretty helpful if know the notes. To know the name of the chord you need to know all the notes on the low E-string. A Bb major chord shape (x13331) can also be played on any fret. To know the name of this Esus2 chord shape: (xx2452) on any fret you need to know the notes on the D-string. The same applies to scale shapes, triads, arpeggios, licks, etc. Here’s how you do it: First things first. Example 1: A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A
Home - Online Music Composition Lessons Guitar/Guitar Chords Song Library The following is a list of notable easy to learn guitar songs from the 1950s to the present. It also contains links to external websites containing different informal chords to songs which represent many different authors' own interpretations of the original songs. Most of the chords on the list are relatively easy to learn, and would be a great start for novice guitar players who are interested in improving their playing abilities. The technical difficulty and skill level required to play each of the songs is defined with a star rating system: - Easy Song - Intermediate Song - Difficult Song Basic Guitar Chord Patterns You will find 5 simple major chord styles on your guitar. also minor chord variation of those 5 basic patterns. You’ll discover that you will find chords that be seemingly missing such as for instance F chords and B chords in addition to chords with sharps or flats. for instance) you've to utilize a barre chord. site. The 5 Essential Major Chord Patterns basic guitar chords g