Archive for the 'guitar lesson' Category

A beginner electric guitar lesson that doesn’t hurt so much

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Power chords in dropped D tuning - The beginner rock guitarists short cut
When it comes to beginner electric guitar lessons, this has to be the quickest and easiest short cut I know of to fast track to playing power chords on the guitar. Especially if you’ve only just recently started to play the guitar and [...]

Lead guitar lessons - The advantage of backing tracks

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Having worked in the music production and backing track industry for the last 12 years as a guitarist come music arranger, one thing has become quite obvious to me.
Playing lead guitar to a backing track definitely makes a big difference to how well you play guitar solos. I often have to stop myself from just [...]

Lead guitar lessons - Which notes to play

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

When I first learned to play lead guitar, I basically taught myself. I had no lead guitar lessons to work from. My knowledge of music theory was very limited, and all I had as a starting point was a simple finger exercise in the key of C.
I don’t want to bore you here with my [...]

Learn to play electric guitar, a better choice

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Why learn to play electric guitar - Reasons, a lesson on its own.
While busy putting some lessons down for Play-electric-guitar.net, it became quite obvious to me that to help someone else “get” how to play electric guitar, I have to really examine every little thing that happens when I play guitar.
One of the first things [...]