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

How to Use a Metronome

If you haven’t already, I suggest you read my two part (yes, two part!) blog post on why you NEED to use a metronome. After posting that article, I realised that many people become confused by metronomes. There are so many different types with different (and sometimes crazy) functions that you may never even use! [...]

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

Guitar Lessons: Muting

Here’s a technique that can make the difference between what you play sounding like a song, and it sounding like a guitar falling down the stairs. What is it? Muting. There are two ways to mute the strings when you play guitar, and both are equally as useful at preventing unwanted strings from ringing. I [...]

February 22, 2010 at 3:52 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | No comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome (part 2)

Right, so it turns out that my “10 Reasons” why you should get a metronome fills two whole (pretty long) blog posts! I can’t say I’m surprised, if you don’t already own or use a metronome you really are missing out on something that will improve your playing no end. If you’re not already convinced [...]

February 9, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome!

So, I talk about it almost every time I mention practice routine, or speed building, or guitar technique…the list goes on and I’m sure you get the point here- I find metronome use pretty essential! It’s so important in fact, that I’ve recently installed a little javascript metronome to my site (there should be a [...]

February 8, 2010 at 9:28 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 3 comments

Guitar Lessons: Sweep Picking

In this next video I demonstrate sweep picking (and further on, something called “sweep tapping”), on an acoustic guitar. Now, sweep picking as a technique doesn’t have to be performed on an acoustic- you may also want to try in on an electric guitar (as, often, heavy metal bands do). Whichever kind of guitar you [...]

February 3, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | 1 comment

Guitar Lessons: Fingerpicking

Continuing the series on my guitar technical exercise videos, I wanted to talk a little bit about fingerpicking. Although this type of guitar playing is rarely used by many modern guitar players, I think it is still a valid technique for both acoustic and electric guitar playing- and I use it some of the time [...]

February 2, 2010 at 3:24 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | No comments

Guitar Lessons: Finger Independance

This exercise is very similar to the alternate picking exercise, in that it is alternate picked and kinda chromatic (although it doesn’t have to be). The big difference here, however, is that the shape requires you to change strings- which, with practice, will help your fingers become more independent and agile. Click here if you [...]

January 28, 2010 at 2:31 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | No comments

Guitar Lessons: Bending and Vibrato

I think this video has confused alot of people with how it starts. To be fair, I don’t start by playing any bending or vibrato, nor do I do the usual “hey, this is Rob from Chainsaw Guitar Tuition” introduction. I, in fact, start off by shredding (if you can call it that, I’m not [...]

January 27, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | No comments

Guitar Lessons: Legato

Continuing this weeks series on the guitar exercises from the website, this post is about legato technique. If you don’t know what legato is, it’s what’s commonly referred to in “guitar slang” as “hammer-ons and pull-offs”- a name that should give you an idea of how this technique is performed. The Italian word “legato” means [...]

January 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises | No comments

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