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Last Updated (Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:44) Written by Administrator Monday, 11 August 2008 06:00
From the beginning, my parents must have known something was different! For one thing, while my friends were getting really involved in playing sports, I was taking an interest in playing guitar. When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, my friends, at different times, would say they wanted to be lawyers or doctors or policemen, I wanted to be Gene Simmons or Ace Frehley!
These are things that I've never outgrown- I would STILL like to be Gene Simmons when I grow up!
Seriously, my work as a computer technician doesn't have much to do with music, but my work as a guitar instructor does! I have taught guitar and bass as well as other music theory for roughly 20 years now, and I've been thinking- what better way to reach more people than to put this information online! Better yet, why not make a good amount of it free, and enhance the free material with video and audio complete lessons and examples to go with the downloadable lessons?
I know I'm FAR from being the first to do this kind of thing. I like to think that I have a unique approach to teaching guitar that will have even complete beginners playing in no time flat!
Take a look around, join the chat, take a look at the free downloadable resources that we have here, the chord chart, the tablature, and if there is a song you'd like to learn that you don't see here, send me an email! It never hurts to ask!
With Best Wishes for your Success!
DFW SuperGeek
How to read guitar tabs : An introduction to beginner guitar tabs!
Last Updated (Sunday, 11 April 2010 04:36) Written by Administrator Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
Learning how to read guitar tabs can look like a challenge to the beginning
guitar player, but you’ll soon find out that it’s really not as hard as it might look at
first!
When you begin to learn guitar, it is a great help to learn how to read guitar
tabs, or the “road map” of the song you would like to learn to play. Whether your
instrument is acoustic or electric guitar, the road map used is sheet music, and tab,
or tablature, is a way of writing sheet music for stringed instruments which allows a
player who has not been trained in reading the traditional music staff to read and
write sheet music. On the traditional staff, which can be used for any musical
instrument, there are 5 lines and 4 spaces, each of which represents a note,
whereas each line on a tablature staff represents a string on the instrument.
Tablature eliminates the need to memorize the locations of the notes by
Read more: How to read guitar tabs : An introduction to beginner guitar tabs!
How To Tune a Guitar :
Last Updated (Sunday, 11 April 2010 04:38) Written by Administrator Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
Now that I’ve gotten you started on reading free guitar tab music, in this article I’ll be
talking about something of extreme importance: how to tune a guitar. In teaching my students
how to tune a guitar, some pick up on it right away, others need a little time to understand how it
works and why, but everyone agrees, it makes no difference how well or how accurately you
might be playing the free guitar chord chart or how much you’ve been practicing the guitar song
chords, if your instrument is out of tune, there is simply no way it’s going to sound good! Any
piece of free guitar tab music can sound great as written, but only if the guitar playing it is in
tune. Period.
“Fret” not, everyone (pun intended!) The art of how to tune a guitar is wi
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Last Updated (Saturday, 10 April 2010 21:21) Written by Administrator Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
How To String a Guitar : Double Locking Tremolo
Last Updated (Sunday, 11 April 2010 01:54) Written by Administrator Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
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In a previous article, I took you through the steps of changing strings on a guitar, both electric and acoustic. Those steps covered most instruments with non-locking and/or non-tremolo equipped guitars both electric and acoustic. As electric guitar design has evolved, great improvements have been made to improve tone, sustain, and tuning stability of electric guitar strings. With the invention of the tremolo system- which is more properly called a vibrato system; tremolo is an effect created from variations in volume, whereas vibrato is created by variations in pitch, as this system does- came a new set of challenges. A tremolo system, also called a vibrato or more popularly a “whammy bar” (a lesser known, but no less colorful name is “wiggle stick”) is a mechanical system built onto the guitar allowing the tension
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