Make Scales More Fun!
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2y ago
Mike Olekshy – GuitarTricks.com Tired of the same stock scale patterns you’ve been practicing? These simple tweaks can transform the sound of well known guitar scales, coaxing sounds that beg for more experimentation and creative expression! ADD A NOTE TO THE MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE Let’s start with one of the first scales a guitar player will learn - the minor pentatonic scale. This is a five note scale that is very commonly used for lead playing. The notes of the scale are the root, minor third (or flat third), fourth, fifth, and the minor seventh (or flat seventh).  Let’s add the no ..read more
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Playing by ear: Top tips
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2y ago
guitarz.blogspot.com: Guest post by Alex Bruce Learning to play by ear is a really important skill for guitarists. It furthers your understanding and knowledge of your instrument, prepares you a whole range of situations, and makes you a better, more rounded musician. It isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do, however, it’s a skill you can actively cultivate and slowly but surely improve. If you practice the right things and get into good habits, your ear gets better and better. Here are some top tips to make sure to set off - and continue - on the right kind of paths with this aural devel ..read more
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Beginner Guitarists - 5 Things You Should Know
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2y ago
guitarz.blogspot.com: Guest post by Alex Bruce Image by Valéria Rodrigues Valéria from Pixabay Hindsight is a wonderful thing, so the saying goes, and this seems objectively true in any walk of life. Learning is a beautiful, sometimes painful process, and there’s really no getting around it. However, every intermediate or advanced guitarist can reel off a list of things they wish they’d known as beginner guitar players, quicker than you can say “Don’t-worry-the-finger-pain-goes-away-in-about-a-week”. These aren’t ways to avoid the absolutely necessary processes of learning and pr ..read more
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5 Things Rock Guitarists Can Learn from Classical Guitarists
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2y ago
guitarz.blogspot.com: Guest post by Alex Bruce Image by _Alicja_ from Pixabay As a Guitar teacher, one hour I’m teaching Hendrix songs, and the next hour I’m helping someone prepare their Classical Guitar grade 4 exam pieces. The next day it might be Jazz and Blues, the following I’m teaching songwriters - From Punk band leaders to Folk ballad weavers.  This kind of overview of aspiring Guitarists and Musical styles got me thinking about the Guitar playing discipline as a whole. What divides these styles? What unites them? And what can they learn from each other?   ..read more
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Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies
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3y ago
Please excuse this post for being not particularly guitar-related. Having said that, there are quite a few guitars, basses and mandocellos (!) used on the album. I'll go over all that in more detail in a follow-up post. I am delighted to be taking pre-orders for the brand new Spurious Transients album, our very first to be released as a vinyl LP (and on Sky Blue coloured vinyl too!)... "Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies" is a documentary soundtrack concept album using genuine eyewitness testimony to tell the story of "The Welsh Triangle" UFO phenomena of 1977. Journey through bizarre t ..read more
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5 Weird Guitars from Craigslist!
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5y ago
guitarz.blogspot.com: Hi there. My name is Billy and I’m a writer with Guitartricks.com, where we teach people how to play guitar online! I’m a huge fan of looking for weird, interesting guitars, and one of the best places to do it is on Craigslist. Craigslist is home to a number of interesting guitars. Here are some that I came across that are entirely unique and unlike anything I’ve ever seen in person. Some of these guitars are custom-built, others aren’t guitars at all but instead, use leftover guitar bodies and parts. Check them out! Steampunk Telecaster- $350This telecaster was “Made ..read more
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