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Do you struggle to find time to practise the guitar? Make time! I’ve been doing around an hour a day most days, with more at the weekends, and in a particularly motivated mood I decided to up my hours. Where to find these extra hours in which to practise? Mornings before work. This is a [...]
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Do you struggle to find time to practise the guitar? Make time! I’ve been doing around an hour a day most days, with more at the weekends, and in a particularly motivated mood I decided to up my hours. Where to find these extra hours in which to practise? Mornings before work. This is a [...]
In an effort to get to know the fretboard better, I bought the Guitar Fretboard Workbook and am working through it. I only know the names of the notes at the bottom end near the headstock and a smattering of other notes higher up. The guy I jam with, however, knows the chord I’m playing [...]
A scale is a sequence of notes that “sound good” together. The C major scale is C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. But how do you know what notes are in a scale? Fortunately, there is a formula. It helps to know that the interval between two consecutive notes is either a semitone [...]
Oh my word, I must be getting serious about my guitar playing. I stumbled upon Andrew Wasson’s Youtube channel, and what he says in his How to Practice Scales video makes complete sense. In a nutshell, you make a guitar practice schedule – and stick to it. I suppose his video had a certain appeal [...]
At the weekend I was able to spend a bit of time learning Classical Gas. Below is the original by Mason Williams: It’s a little tricky, but the trickiness (for me) came mostly from the unfamiliarity. With a bit of work, it’s sounding pretty good! Another well known rendition is Tommy Emmanuel’s. Eggbox Shite O’Reilly! [...]
I’ve been learning/playing Sultans of Swing for maybe a month now. Obviously, when I started it was all slow learning from a book (of rock legend tablature). Now when I play I just play from memory. There are still parts of the song I can’t play, but I know enough of the rudiments of the [...]
I started playing on a classical guitar, many moons ago. I think that because the beginners books I was learning from were for classical guitar, the vibrato I now use is the “classical one”: where the finger oscillates horizontally, not vertically. That is, my finger moves in the direction of the string. It makes for [...]
This week I will mostly be practising fingerpicking. Don’t ask me why, but I just had the urge to play loads of songs with fingerpicking in them. It’s probably because my Epiphone Les Paul is at my house, my acoustic guitar is at my partner’s house, and I was at my partner’sover the weekend. I [...]
In the past I haven’t really thought about how best to learn the guitar. The learning process just seemed to be summarised by the motif “practise more”. But practise what, precisely? I’ve bought books on learning the guitar, learning to play blues guitar, and also books that contain tabs for certain songs. What should you [...]
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