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- Guitar Lessons – String Bending By: Bill McRea
Bending strings is used to give the guitar a more personalized and harmonic quality. The technique is used mostly by lead guitar players but is also applied in all styles of playing. String bending and vibrato techniques are two large components in making up a guitar player’s style. The combination of these skills more or less defines a considerable part of what makes your playing different than the next guy.
Bending the strings far enough to reach a desired pitch is the g...
Tags: Guitar Lessons, String Bending, Bending Strings, Guitar, Guitars
- Guitar Lessons – Playing Harmonics By: Bill McRea
A harmonic is a tone that’s created by the guitar by touching the string above a fret on an open vibrating string. There are 2 types of harmonics Natural and Artificial or I prefer to call them pinch harmonics.
Natural Harmonics
Natural Harmonics can be produced by touching your index finger on your fret-hand above at the 5th, 7th or 12th fret. Just place your finger on the string above the fret, don’t press to hard or you will mute the note, pluck the note and then p...
Tags: Guitar Lessons, Harmonics, Natural Harmonic, Pinch Harmonics
- Guitar Lessons - Guitar Vibrato By: Bill McRea
Playing a guitar without vibrato is like eating Mexican food without salsa. Vibrato is one of the most definitive techniques in defining your musical style, your own personal unique sound. No two players have the same vibrato sound. Some play slow and wide while others play narrow and fast, and that’s the beauty behind spending a lot of time learning different vibrato techniques. It’s like eating different salsa’s every time you go to your favorite taco stand. Enough talk abo...
Tags: Guitar Lesson, Guitar VIbrato, Vibrato, Guitar, Guitars
- You Can Learn to Play Rock Guitar By: Tomas Labas
Although the electric guitar has originated in blues music, it is rock that gave its popularity. With rock music, the electric guitar became a massively expressive instrument. All guitar lessons have to touch on rock as well, but if you want to learn to play rock guitar, there are special modules you can take up. These modules focus almost exclusively on rock music.
Tags: learn to play rock guitar, learn guitar
- A Brief History of G & L Guitars By: William McRea
G & L Guitars are handmade and are in a limited production. Originally started by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Dale Hyatt, G & L has a reputation for delivering electric guitars that are high quality and innovative.
Tags: G & L Guitars, Buy Guitar, Guitar
- Avnex Music Morpher Gold 3.0 – A Closer Look By: Wayne Rice
Avnex Music Morpher Gold 3.0 is an impressive collection of powerful audio tools. The built-in Audio Editor is looked at in depth and in detail. Filters and Effects are detailed; DirectX and VST modules are also supported. This all in one audio suite is highly recommended.
Tags: Music morpher, audio, audio recording, audio editing, audio morphing, audio filters, audio
- Learning The Guitar By: DMF
In this world with all kinds of styles of music and bands, finding someone to teach you what you really dream of playing is kind of tough.
Tags: guitar, music lessons, education, guitar lessons, play the guitar, electric guitar, lessons
- Learn How To Play That Guitar By: David Fishman
In this world with all kinds of styles of music and bands, finding someone to teach you what you really dream of playing is kind of tough. The problem is finding a teacher who’ll give you a good guitar lesson that doesn’t include all the stuff that really doesn’t matter when it comes down to just playing a song.
You can practice for many hours to replicate your favorite guitar player playing style, but when you have the proper instruction you have the path to get to the po...
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- An Introduction To Learning To Play The Guitar By: Evert DuToit
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is played by plucking or strumming the strings, while the fingers hold down the strings in certain combinations, to play the notes. Most guitars have six strings that are tuned on the scale E A D G B E. There are two broad categories of guitars today, acoustic and electric.
Acoustic guitars have hollow bodies, called sound boxes, which produce the sound, and thus do not need amplification. However, some modern ones do come w...
Tags: learn guitar, electric guitar, learning to play the guitar
- Musical Instruments Of The Renaissance, The Ancestor Of Modern Musical Instruments By: James M Peterson
The Renaissance is an important time period of history; the word means in French “rebirth” and is very appropriate to define the most spectacular historical age in Italy. Western Europe was also influenced by its main features, the revival of learning based on classical sources (Greek and Latin), and the raise of papal patronage, the development of perspective and great advancements of science. Albrecht Durer was the first to describe Italian art as “renaissance”. Giorgio Vas...
Tags: musical instruments of the renaissance, musical instruments
- How To Read Guitar Tablature - Basics To Reading Guitar Tabs By: Josh Scalf
If you do not know how to read musical notation, but lets say you want to learn how to jam the new Fall Out Boys song on your guitar. You will first need to learn how to read guitar tablature. Don't worry though, because learning guitar tabs is very easy once you know all the basics.
Guitar Tab Basics
A standard tablature staff would look something like this:
e-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G----...
Tags: how to read guitar tablature, how to read guitar tabs, guitar tablature, reading guitar ta
- Jamorama Review – Learned the Hard Way By: Nickolie
Jamorama is an extremely popular online and downloadable Guitars Lessons. The creator of the course is Ben Edwards, a respected guitar teacher and former lead guitarist
Tags: jamorama, jamorama reviews, jamorama review
- Retro Stylophone - The electronic synthesizer By: find-me-a-gift
This Stylophone is a must have for any Rolf Harris or retro synthesizer fan.
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- The Importance Of Frets And Fret Boards By: Victor Epand
A brief look at what frets and fret boards are, what role they play in helping a guitar to produce sounds, and how their design and manufacture can make a difference to the overall quality of sound.
Tags: Fret, fret board, vibrato
- Guitars, Bridges And The Whammy Bar By: Victor Epand
A quick look at the different ways a bridge can be used to adjust the sound and pitch of a guitar, and where the whammy bar or tremolo arm fits in.
Tags: Electric guitars, tremolo, whammy bar, vibrato, bridge
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