Guitar Lessons: Picking Technique FAQ

I get a lot of questions about guitar picking technique, anchoring, strumming patterns and the best way to go about things, so I’ve decided to write this short lesson so that you can make sure you’re doing things right. So, starting with the basics… How Do I Hold the Pick? Seems simple, right? Yet you’d [...]

July 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

Learn to Play 20 Easy, Three Chord, Guitar Songs

It’s amazing just how many songs you can learn to play just by knowing three guitar chords! If you’re a beginner guitarist, or just looking for some easy, strum-along songs, then this lesson should be just what you’re looking for. I have compiled a list of 20 easy songs that all use just three open [...]

June 30, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

How to set your Guitar’s Action (string height)

Here’s a video of me playing an Epiphone Les Paul Junior: I set the guitar up myself- which included re-stringing the guitar, and then setting the intonation and action (the height of the strings above the fretboard). Now, re-stringing the guitar was the easy part (and if you have trouble putting new strings on a [...]

June 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm | How to | No comments

Guitar Lessons: Muscle Memory

Which is better: learning to play a song off by heart, or learning the chords that make up a song off by heart? Say you learnt Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heavens Door” note for note (a song that also been covered by Guns’n’Roses in case you haven’t heard the original). Now, all you’ve done is [...]

June 9, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to play like Dimebag from Pantera

Here’s an interesting selection of lessons I’ve found on YouTube by Dimebag Darrel of Pantera, and later, Damageplan. Dime is sadly no longer with us, but it’s through his music that he lives on. I though it would be good to share these videos as they give a real insight into his technique. I hope [...]

May 3, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

Guitar Trainer

I posted a while ago about learning the notes of the fretboard, if you haven’t already read it I suggest you learn the notes on the guitar here. I also talk about the fretboard diagram accessible from the right sidebar (on the main site). Once you reckon you’ve got a pretty good grasp on the [...]

April 20, 2010 at 11:00 pm | How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

Potential Energy…in Music

If you’re like most of my readers, then you’ll want to make sure your guitar technique is as effective as possible. This means ironing out all the tensions and extra movements and making sure we’re always moving efficiently. This applies whether you want to play solos at 200bpm, or if you just want to switch [...]

April 14, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to Play Guitar: Finger Agility

Over the last few years, I’ve been teaching myself to sing; this requires learning to project your voice, and hit the correct pitches. Now, this may sound easy- surely using your voice comes naturally? Well, the truth is being able to sing is far from being a natural ability. With some people, yes, it is [...]

March 22, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | 1 comment

Alternate Tuning Notes

As an addition to my last post on how to tune, I created another page with sound files of the tuning notes for standard tuning (accessible from the menu, above, under “TUNING”). If you read the previous post, or watched the video, you probably realised that in the video I talk about downtuning the low [...]

March 17, 2010 at 11:00 pm | How to | No comments

Guitar Lessons: How to Tune Your Guitar

I’ve just recently added a new tuning section to the site on tuning and to (celebrate?) this I’ve also recorded a YouTube Video on tuning your guitar. Click here if you can’t see the guitar tuning video In this video I take you through two methods for tuning your guitar, both of which come under [...]

March 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm | How to | 1 comment

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