Archive for: March 2008

The blues has contributed a lot to guitar playing technique, and one of the most exciting elements of blues guitar is the shuffle.
If you haven’t tried muting your strings when you play, here’s your chance. The 12 bar blues shuffle is easy to do and it sounds really cool. Doing the shuffle will really make you feel like a lowdown and dirty blues guitar player. Whether or not you’re a blues guitarist, you should learn to play one or two shuffle accompaniments. Basically, to do the shuffle you play a triplet rhythm but you don’t play the middle note. Anyway you should get the idea from the 12 bar blues video courtesy of Acoustic Guitar Secrets

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Here’s a quote from howtotuneaguitar.org which I think is relevant to people seeking to learn guitar for free “For one reason or another alot of guitar players don’t develop great technique.”
That’s because we don’t apply ourselves consistently to the hard work of practicing guitar scales, arpeggios and chords while at the same time watching how we are sitting and holding the guitar. “Many hours of study and practice are necessary, and you can practice to your heart’s content but if your posture and hand positions are awkward it’s going to work against you, and take longer.”
Okay, so there’s a lot of spellbinding guitarists who have never worked on their posture, but there’s a lot of guys who are saving up a world of discomfort and pain in the future. If this kind of stuff bothers you this little guide to the guitar basics will help you.

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What teenage boys do in their bedrooms has kept glossy magazine publishers and online archives of the human form in tasteless mansions for many years. Now two more companies devoted to inspiring teen dreams are engaging in a bit of a tiff.
Gibson guitars are used by many guitar legends like B.B. King and Eric Clapton. They’re also used by bedroom guitar players all over the world via Activision’s ‘Guitar Hero’. Now, according to Reuters, “Gibson requests that Activision obtain a license under Gibson’s … patent or halt sales of any version of the ‘Guitar Hero’ game software.”
‘Guitar Hero’ has made a billion dollars and Gibson feels it’s entitled to a piece of the action because fourteen million ‘Guitar Hero’ players go to that fluffy pink place in their heads holding what looks a lot like a Gibson guitar.
According to Reuters, “Activision said its games did not infringe Gibson’s patent, and that by waiting three years to raise its claim, the guitar maker had granted an implied license for any technology.”
Read the story here.

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