Saturday, March 3, 2012

Best guitar solos

I've found a great video on youtube featuring some of the best guitar solos ever. Really valuable video if you are wondering how to learn guitar.. just watch these professionals play and perhaps you will pick up on something! ;)

I will be soon posting a lot of tutorials on how to learn guitar, I'm just waiting for this blog to become more popular. Once it gets decent 100+ daily visitors I'll be teaching you guitar scales and chords! So much for now, hope you will enjoy the best guitar solos video!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Learn guitar chords

Guitar chords might be the most important element of guitar playing; after all, they're the basis of what makes a song. Either you are a self-taught guitarist or have a professional mentor; there are various ways to learn guitar chords. In case you are having trouble in remembering all the chords at once, you can check out various websites that have mapped all the guitar chords. As you go along the way of your guitar practice, you will be accustomed to various chords which are common to all the songs you play. That’s why when you learn guitar chords; you have to effort on giving time to practice different songs of different genres.

Guitar chords are divided into families, the family a chord belongs to is determined by it'stype. For all beginners we have 3 main families of chords to learn. They are Major, Minor and  Dominant 7 chords . With these in place you have all the necessary elements required to form keys and play through complete songs.
Guitar chords  played properly will be soothing to the ear. There are many great musicians today who play the guitar well and make a great living playing this versatile instrument. Guitar chords can also be illustrated in the form of guitar tabulature.  Guitar tabs are another essential tool to help learn chords, and more importantly to learn to play the rhythm parts of songs.

When you learn guitar chords it's a good idea to make use of a chord-book and also learn from good mentor. There's so much to learn and, as you improve in your playing, it's wiser to master the theory. That way you can build your own chord shapes making use of the caged system instead of memorizing hundreds of shapes.

That's all for today. Be sure to check this excellent e-book i red last week!
How to Play Guitar: Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar

Kisses.