So for the past three years, I have been actively working to learn how to play the guitar. My view on what this means has changed over these three years. When I first started, I wanted to learn to play chords so I could play campfire songs. My first year or so was with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Guitar’
Guitar Repair Maintenance
I bought a DVD talking about Electric Guitar setup and maintenance. The DVD is titled Fret MD: Electric Guitar and Bass Setup and Maintenance with Al Markasky. Short of a class on this subject, I thought the presentation of the areas covered were excellent. He covers the main areas of setup which in his process [...]
Guitar Scale Sheets
I’ve been working on all my Guitar Scale sheets which you can find the current version in my downloads area (see tab at the site of my blog site). I’ve decided to update them and add additional keys to fill out my collection. The updates are around making the graphics (which are JPG files) have [...]
Guitar – String Bending and Vibrato
Now, I’m probably not a beginner guitar player anymore but I’m not really sure that I’m that far from a beginner. I guess this is one of those areas that I lack confidence in. Yes, I’m building up knowledge and even some skill but putting it all together so that I can replicate the guitar [...]
Online Guitar Lessons
I came across an interesting and really well done Guitar Lesson site. The site is basically a video lesson site providing lessons that teach songs and providing lessons on certain techniques. Their gimmick, at least with songs, is that some of the lessons are actually provided by real NAME artists. I can see the benefit [...]
New Guitar Toy
I got to sample this cool device at my local Music Store and I was way impressed by it. The device is a Vox PreAmp which is battery powered and plugs directly into the guitar and the speaker is a pair of headphones. According to Troy (again at my local music store), a good pair [...]
Harmonic Minor Scales – Guitar
So in my last post, I shared with everyone the generated printouts of the various scales that I’ve produced via the lessons that I’ve had from my teacher over the last year and half (Mick Radcliff). My motivation for the last post was that Mick was teaching me about a new scale (new to me) [...]
Guitar Music Scales – File Download
I’ve cleaned up all my guitar related PDF’s in my download area so check them out. They include Modes (Ionian, Dorian, …), Pentatonic, Blues and such. They include scales for the keys of A, C, E, and G as well as some useful diagrams. I’ve added a new scale which I’m learning about called the [...]
DigiDesign/M-Audio M-Box 2 Pro Vs Roland/Edirol FA-101
I’ve had an M-Box 2 Pro for about a year now. I’m a hobbyist and use it to record practice sessions on my guitar so that I can help myself get better (not sure it helps but hope springs eternal!). DigiDesign/M-Audio who is the manufacturer of the M-Box 2 Pro is very well know for [...]
Another Guitar file
Lately, my guitar teacher (Mick) has been working on some synthetic scales with me. These scales combine a mode for the first two strings, the overlapping pentatonic major scale for the next two strings, and the previous mode for the final two strings. The last restriction is that we restrict the synthetic scale to four [...]
New Guitar File
I’ve added a new Guitar download. C Chord Guitar Overlays provides the overlay of Modes (Mixolydian, Aeolian, …) with Pentatonic Major scale. These two scales are often used in improvisation together and apart. My guitar teacher, Mick, has been spending quite a bit of time showing me these overlays while working through some other [...]
New Guitar
After changing guitar teachers, it became pretty evident pretty quickly that much of what I was leaning towards now (and what my teacher was eacher to teach) was more focused towards electric guitars. I had an accoustic (see Gallery/Hobbies/Guitar for a photo) – it’s an excellent guitar. Kathy approved (she is wonderful!) getting a new [...]
Guitar Update
I’ve been taking 2 summer classes in addition to my normal lessons. The first is about recording and recording equipment. I bought a small personal stand alone recorder about 6 months ago so that I could hear my playing and determine if progress is being made. The reason for it is that I don’t think [...]
The Song of One Chord
I haven’t talked about my Guitar in a while. On Monday, Edward, my teacher and I were discussing 2 new songs. One of them was Creeque Alley (Mammas and Pappas) and the other was Horse with No Name (America). We had run short on time when we got to Horse with No Name and Edward [...]