Archive for: August 2007

Anyone looking for an online guitar tuner need look no further than The Tune-O-Matic! This guitar tuner also has alternate guitar tuning options. You can tune to Standard, Drop D, Open C, Open G, Open D, Open G, Half Step Down, Full Step Down, Open E or Admiral.
How To Tune A Guitar

. . . and a guitar tuning video!!

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If you are just starting out with the guitar, most people will tell you to buy a good nylon string acoustic guitar to learn on. The electric guitar has steel strings which will cut into your left hand fingers. If you start your practice with a nylon string guitar, you will get callouses on the tips of your left fingers, which will protect you from those nasty old electric guitar strings. Another disadvantage with starting on an electric guitar is that the amplified electric guitar is more forgiving in the sense that it may not require you to use much pressure to make the chords, and the amplification helps to cover up the shortcomings of a newbie’s left hand technique. Guitar Playing Lessons

Video Guitar Lessons Free Lessons with Tab. Beginner to Intermediate
Video Guitar Lessons is a free site where players of all levels can experience interactive multimedia learning.

You’ve decided you want to learn how to play the guitar. You go out and buy yourself a guitar to learn on, the next step is to start learning some songs. Guitar tabulature, also called guitar tabs are a great friend of the guitar player. What we think of as standard musical notation is the most versatile form of written language we have for music, but it is not the only one. Guitar tablature is important to beginner guitar players. Tablature is much easier to learn, and as long as you already have some idea of what the song you are learning sounds like, then it is a great way to quickly learn new material. If you haven’t gotten round to learning standard music notation yet, then guitar tablature will get you learning new songs and instrumental pieces very quickly. Free Guitar Tablature

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Vibrato is a small variation in pitch, that lends additional depth and sustain to the note being played. Vibrato gives a more “vocal” sound to guitar playing. Your use of vibrato when you play the guitar gives your music your individual “trademark”.
Here’s an entry on the use of vibrato in blues music on Blues And Rock Guitar
“Vibrato in blues guitar playing developed as a means to recreate the sound of a blues singer’s voice. With a bottleneck this was achieved by rapidly sliding the glass side back and forth over the desired fret to create a series of notes that were centered in the target pitch but incorporated notes that were slightly lower and higher in pitch. This gives the notes a vocal quality that mimics the imperfections in the human voice. Non-slide acoustic and electric players also sought to capture the depth of emotion in the human voice. Without a slide they utilized a small bending motion in rapid sucession. Vibrato was achieved by use the fingers or wrist or a combination of both.”
http://bluesrockguitar.blogspot.com/2007/02/vibrato-and-its-role-in-blues-guitar.html