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Playing Lead Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

When you are learning how to play lead guitar there are basic points you need to think of as rules that will help your guitar playing. As a lead guitar player you are a picker, ...

Is It Hard To Learn Guitar?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Some people say it is difficult to learn guitar, others say it really isn't that hard. The ones who say that it isn't hard are the ones who have actually learned to play. They have ...

One of the languages of guitar music is tablature, often known simply as guitar tabs. Guitar tabs are quite easy to learn to read compared to conventional musical notation. If you decide to learn to ...

Very Easy Guitar Tabs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Novice guitar players are always looking for very easy guitar tabs. That's okay as long as you are aware that if you persevere with your guitar playing, your easy guitar tabs will start to get ...

Acoustic Guitar Chords And Tabs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

The acoustic guitar, with its natural, unelectrified tone, is ideally suited to bringing out the best in some chords. I'm going to write tabs for some particularly good examples of power chords that not only ...

Jimi Hendrix's Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

The influence of Jimi Hendrix as a guitar player is undeniable. He lived in an age populated by guitar legends and became a legend among them. Did Jimi Hendrix's guitar have any special part in ...

How To Learn Guitar Chords Online - The Key Ingredients

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Whatever musical genre you are into, you will need to learn how to play chords. There are varying degrees of focus on learning chords. In rock, country and blues you can get away with learning ...

Spanish Guitar Songs, Chords And Scales

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

When you take up the acoustic guitar you want to play songs, right? Maybe to sing some songs around the campfire. Lots of pop songs and folk songs sound good accompanied by the acoustic guitar ...

Guitar Lesson Reviews - Free Beginner Guitar Lessons

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

This article is going to give you some reviews of a few of the guitar courses that you can buy over the internet plus some info on how you can get access to free beginner ...

Beginner Guitar Chords For Rock Songs - Chord Techniques For Beginner Guitar Players

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

All beginner guitarists who want to play rock songs are itching to get started playing chords right away. So let us get some insight into the process of learning beginner guitar chords for rock songs. ...

Dobro Guitar - How To Play It

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you know how to play a Dobro guitar you have at your command a whole range of notes that you cannot get to without a slide. You can slide into notes which, with that ...

Bar Chords - What's The Easiest Way To Play Bar Chords On The Guitar?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Bar chords are the first advanced step for the guitar player. You have some kind of understanding of how to play open guitar chords and you have practiced till your fingertips are hardened enough not ...

Easy To Learn Guitar Tabs For Peter Gunn

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

It is easy to learn guitar tabs. Only one basic idea needs to be understood, the rest falls into place. To illustrate this idea I will be using tabs for a simple piece of music ...

Free Country Guitar Tablature - Where Do You Get It?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

This is a brief note on how to sort through free country guitar tablature and use it to start yourself off as a guitar player. Some of the biggest solo artists in history have been ...

Hotel California Words And Guitar Chords

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

After many years Hotel California is still a classic. The words and chords are sought after items by guitar players young and old. Below are the words to Hotel California with the chord names inserted ...

How To Learn Bass Guitar Online

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

If you have an interest in learning to play bass guitar, you will find it to be a very rewarding instrument to play. The bass guitar player is an important member of the band. The ...

Christian Guitar Tabs

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Christian music is the only genre that encourages a sense of people drawing together rather than an expression of individualism. I guess competitiveness still reigns supreme in Christian music with people secretly, or otherwise, trying ...

Learn The Guitar Fretboard

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

For any serious study of the guitar fretboard you are going to need a fretboard chart. With the chart in front of you the notes can be seen, relationships can be formed in the shape ...

Beginner Guitar Chords - What Are They And How Do I Play Them?

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

There are around a dozen or so guitar chords that every beginner guitar player should learn. It takes a little work right at the beginning but once you have started it will just be a ...

How To Read Guitar Notes

By Ricky Sharples · 15 years ago

Knowing how to read guitar notes is the basic need for anyone wanting to play songs on the guitar. It is very frustrating to be gazing at these dots on the page knowing that they ...