Archive for: November 2007

Acoustic Guitar Notes (formerly AG Wire) is a free ”opt-in” e-newsletter delivered right to your e-mailbox every month. Acoustic Guitar Notes is packed with music news, gear tips, and information about giveaways, latest books, upcoming features in Acoustic Guitar magazine, and hot spots on the Web.
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Flying with your guitar, links to on-line guitar galleries, bass jokes, tips on humidifying your instrument, links to guitar instruction sites, guitar myths debunked, links to cool Web radio sites, news about the upcoming Vintage Guitars book, a gig-from-hell story, yet more guitar myths debunked, shocking news about pickguards, a great story about some red-hot guitar playing, and some vital news about Spinal Tap, the Fab Four, Dylan, R.E.M. and Gillian Welch, more guitar myths about straps, strings, and air pressure, a great gig story, an interview with Jewel, The Complete Acoustic Guitar Method Series, A New History of the Lute, Guitar Talk gatherings, Chris Isaak and Vicente Amigo in AG; news about recordings by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and Janis Ian; discovering your own alternate tunings, and more.
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These free video guitar lessons by Peter Vogl will teach you some music theory for the guitar.
An octave is equal to twelve frets on the guitar. For example, you can play an E note with either the open 6th string or by playing the 6th string at the 12th fret. We’ll also look at some other ways you can play octaves on the guitar neck.

An interval is the distance between two notes. This is a basic music theory lesson and you will learn the difference between half steps, whole steps, minor and major thirds, and all the other intervals.

A minor third interval is a set of notes that are three frets apart. A major third interval is four frets apart. We’ll look at examples of these intervals in chords.

This free guitar lesson explores interesting ways to find and play half step intervals on the guitar. Learning music theory is a great way to improve your guitar playing.

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Many people associate playing guitar using thumbpick and fingers with Chet Atkins, but he began playing in this style after watching Merle Travis. Here’s a free “Travis Picking” lesson. If you don’t have a thumbpick, it’s okay, just use the side of your thumb. And if you aren’t interested in trying this style of fingerpicking you’ll probably find something else to interest you on How To Tune A Guitar

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