Guitar For Beginners

The Guitar for Beginners category has all the basic information guitar students need to know.

Happy Birthday Chords And Tabs

For those of you with a genuine thirst for music here are the tabs for a version of the Happy Birthday melody. Click on the image to see the full size tab. All us creative types know that if you are going to compose music you are going to need to have a close relationship with a lawyer. You see, when you start composing songs, that’s your intellectual property and ain’t nobody goin’ to meddle with it. Nosiree Bob. If any other creative musical person publishes someting that distantly resembles your original composition, that is your cue to have their…

Guitar Practice Routine – How To Practice Guitar

Most guitar teachers and working guitar players would define guitar practice time as time spent working towards a goal. If you sit in your room with your guitar for four hours a day and don’t practice anything beyond playing simple songs using chords in the first position, then at some point you will stop growing as a guitar player. If you want to continue to grow as a guitarist, you will need to find areas of guitar playing where you can improve. You probably have some kind of basic goals concerning acquiring advanced technique or the kind of sound you…

Music Theory For Guitar – Should I Bother?

If you already know how to play guitar but you play mostly by ear or with the help of tabs, you might be wondering if there is any advantage to learning [tag]music theory[/tag]. Many guitarists who think about learning theory just want to be more complete, rounded musicians but an experienced player without theory will know that the bottom line in what is musical is what sounds good. Essential, music theory is a method of communication. Musicians use musical notation and theory to pass ideas from one person to another. An experienced guitar player learning musical theory for the first…

Finger Picking Guitar – Assigning Fingers To Strings

There’s a question that comes up for guitar players learning finger style techniques. Do we assign each finger to a specific string permanently or assign fingers to strings as the piece of music you are learning calls for? The answer is that you will find yourself using both ways of deciding which finger plays which string. To start the ball rolling you should probably follow the discipline of giving your thumb the sixth and fifth strings and the first, second and third fingers to the third, second and first strings respectively. This leaves the fourth string being shared by the…