Stories from Basic Guitar Lessons
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Guitar Lesson: "Triplet Practice 2: Swing Feel" by James Wilmoth
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
First, let's start with learning a fundamental blues scale. This scale is one of my favorites, and is easy to remember. In later pages, we'll see it moved up and down the neck. We'll be using it in E, A,… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Find The Harmony In The Chord" by Steve Cass
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
This is the fifth lesson the Playbook for the Beginner and Beyond series. It talks about the basic harmony components of the chord. For a complete listing of all lessons in this series, click the link above or perform a… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Ear Training and Intervals" by Christopher Sung
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
This lesson is designed as a tutorial to help you learn how notes sound, how intervals come into play, and most importantly, how to aurally remember what they sound like. It goes hand in hand with the One Note Ear… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "CAGED Chord Theory - Part II" by Jay McConnell
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
Style: Basic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Continuation of CAGED lesson for moving all types of chords, all over the fretboard to get the harmony and melodies that you want. PLEASE VIEW "HEY JOE & CAGED THEORY" - Lesson # 4177 Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Technical Excercise" by Meghan Beauchamp
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
First route up and down the fretboard. The fingering for this is obvious: open,1,2,3,4 etc. At 3rd string, play the B on the 4th fret instead of Open 2nd String. This mimics the patterns that show up in the other… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Speed Riff" by Joel Nutt
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
I'm not real good at tempo's with the composer, yet. Just adjust it until you can understand it. Then play it 'til your fingers bleed. The form sounds good on all the strings. Practice it on all of them...Play with… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "TRAINING FOR VOICE, EAR, & TONAL MEMORY" by Charles Gacsi
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
One of the most simpliest ways of learning breath control is playing a simple wind instrument, like a song flute, flutophone, recorder, or blowing across a pop bottle, or just making a controlled long sound. Not loud but long. Two… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN CREATING LESSONS" by Charles Gacsi
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
People will not be able to see you or hear you speak, as part of the clues in teaching and learning. No facial expressions are present. They will only know you by what you write. If you are careless, about… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Speed Picking Exercise (Horizontally)" by Anthony Ridi
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
Some of the best players on the planet employ horizontal scale techniques. Not only will this exercise help you pick faster, but you'll see the pentatonic scale from a different angle...the horizontal angle. Notice how the following sets of strings… Full Story »
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Guitar Lesson: "Reference Lessons" by Steve Cass
Basic Guitar Lessons &bull May 26, 2011
This is the twenty-first and final lesson in the Playbook for the Beginner and Beyond series. If you're visiting this page ahead of viewing the lessons in this series, I encourage you to take the tour of this Playbook by… Full Story »
