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Guitar Mastery: How Long Does It Take?
One of the most common questions I’m asked is “How long does it take to master a guitar?” It’s a difficult one to answer and will obviously depend on the amount of dedication, how much practice, and how motivated someone...
What Are Guitar Strings Made Of?
What would your guitar be without its strings? Unplayable, just a few pieces of wood attached to each other that would be good for nothing apart from using it to hit someone over the head, as a useless tennis racket,...
CAGED Guitar System Part 3: Joining the Dots
In Part 1. and Part 2. of this mini-series, we covered the five chord shapes of the CAGED system - C, A, G, E, and D. It’s now time to join them all together creating the system that will revolutionize...
CAGED - The Key to Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard - Part 2 - C, G, and D Chords
Part 1 of this mini-series covered the E and A chord shapes and how they relate to the CAGED system. So, let’s now move on to the C, G, and D-shaped chords. Starting with the… D-shaped Barre Chord The root...
CAGED - The Key to Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard - Part 1 - Chords
Now that’s a bold title if ever there was one, but you’ll be very happy to hear that it isn’t clickbait, it’s 100% true. The CAGED system is one of the most important things you can ever learn on the...
Tablature Explained - How to Read Guitar Tabs in Less than 30 Minutes
Let’s start with a quite shocking fact… many legendary guitarists can not read formal music, for example, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, and many, many more. They used their ears, not their eyes to write and play...
Best Songs to Learn the C#m Chord
Let’s start with an assumption, you’re on this page because either you’ve found a song that contains a C#m chord and it’s quite difficult to play, so you’re looking for easy guitar songs with C#m to improve your skills with...
Wraparound Bridge vs Tune-o-matic: Guide to Gibson Bridges
The bridge is one of the most critical components of an electric guitar, influencing tone, playability, and tuning stability. For the past 75 years, two iconic bridge designs have dominated Gibson-style guitars - the wraparound bridge and the tune-o-matic bridge....
How Does Guitar Pickup Position Affect Sound?
Have you ever played with your guitar’s pickup selector switch and thought, “Wow, that’s a completely different sound”, well, you’re not alone. The electric guitar is a sonic playground, and one of its best-kept secrets lies in where those magnetic...
The electric guitar is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic instruments in modern music, shaping the sound of various genres from rock to blues to jazz to metal. Unlike acoustic guitars, which rely on a hollow chambered body...
Best Songs to Learn a B7 Chord
There’s something about playing any of the B chords on a guitar that makes them difficult, especially for beginners. I have already taken a look at quick and easy ways to learn the Bm chord and the best songs to...
Best Songs to Learn a B Chord on Guitar
The three hardest chords for beginners learning the guitar are F major, B minor, and B major. I’ve already covered the best songs to learn an F chord and the Best songs to practice the Bm, so today, it’s time to...
초보자들이 가장 두려워하는 코드는 단연 F 코드이지만, Bm 코드 역시 그에 못지않게 어렵기로 유명합니다. F와 Bm은 기본적으로 동일한 모양이지만, Bm을 연주하려면 손가락을 한 줄씩 아래로 내리고 바레(barre)를 한 프렛 위로 옮기면 됩니다. Bm은 누르는 줄이 더 가늘고, 두 번째 프렛에서는...
새 기타 줄을 갈 때 몇 주 동안 계속 조율해야 겨우 음이 맞는다고 느끼시나요? 이는 기타 연주자, 특히 초보자에게 흔히 발생하는 문제인데, 어떻게 해결할 수 있는지 알아보겠습니다... 모두 스트레칭에 달려 있습니다! 해결책은 기타에 줄을 맨 후 스트레칭하는 것입니다. 간단하게 들리지만,...
코드 은 음악을 구성하는 명백한 기초이지만, 스케일은 그 모든 것을 하나로 묶어주는 시멘트와 같습니다. 스케일을 통해 멜로디를 만들 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 그 멜로디에 화음을 더할 수도 있습니다. 또한 스케일은 솔로 연주와 즉흥 연주를 구성하는 핵심 요소이기에, 모든 기타리스트의 음악적...