When you walk into a guitar store, you might hear a customer ask, “I’d like a set of ’10’s’ for electric guitar“. The customer is referring to the gauge of the first string. .010″ (Ten thousandths of an inch).
String gauge refers to the thickness or specifically the diameter of a guitar string. String [...]
I hope you are enjoying learning about all the chords in the world — and we’re going to cover them ALL before we’re done — you’ll know more about chords than 99% of the people in the world – believe it or not, it’s true.
Here is a chart that shows how chords are [...]
“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken down like mathematics. The Blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look!”
- BB King, interview by David Ritz
When you want to play a solo, you have to know [...]
The great thing about Blues is you don’t need to know a lot before you can start playing. In fact, you can start playing Blues progressions with just three chords. Generally, most blues chord progressions are based on the 12 Bar Blues formula.
A typical 12 Bar Blues progression would look like the pattern/progression below. Notice [...]
In this lesson I will teach you the Hendrix chord. This is a great sounding chord - really powerful, harsh and bluesy. Jimi used this chord in songs like “Purple Haze”, “Foxy Lady” and “Vodoo Child”. The chord is an augmented 9th chord. It is generally referred to as “7#9″ - seven sharp nine.
The chord fingering:
To [...]
By Steve Laney
Easy guitar songs are one of the best things about playing guitar-you can take your acoustic guitar to parties or to the beach or whatever and pretty soon you will have a crowd of people around you all singing along to whatever you play-the best thing about easy guitar songs is that most [...]
Ever see anyone bust out a sweet guitar solo? Ever wonder how they do it? Much of it is manipulation of scales. Scale are patterns of notes that, when put together is different ways, can create different kinds of feelings.
Let’s take a look:
This is a scale chart. It’s different from a chord chart in that [...]