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How to Play Basic Major Chords on a Guitar

Basic open major guitar chords include C major, D major, E major, G major, and A major. This video lesson shows how to play these guitar chords with exercises a beginner can follow. These basic chords [more…]

How to Play the Blues Scale on a Guitar

If you want to play jazz or blues on the guitar, you need to learn how to play the 6-note blues scale. This video illustrates a blues scale box pattern -- a fingerboard pattern -- and shows how you can [more…]

How to String A Steel-String Acoustic Guitar

Knowing how to restring your acoustic guitar is a vital maintenance skill. Regardless of string brand or gauge, this lesson shows how to replace a string on your acoustic guitar and get back to playing [more…]

How to Play Folk Guitar Fingerpicking Style

If you're playing folk music on your guitar, you'll probably want to put down the pick and use a fingerpicking style. This video gives you ideas and instruction on playing folk guitar with just your fingers [more…]

How to String an Electric Guitar

Changing strings on an electric guitar is a vital skill for any guitarist. This video lesson shows how to replace a string on your electric guitar, regardless of string brand or gauge, and get back to [more…]

How to Tune Your Guitar

Electric, acoustic, and classical guitars need tuning. This video lesson demonstrates how to tune a guitar using either the fifth-fret method or an electronic tuner. [more…]

How to Play Basic Minor Chords on a Guitar

Basic open minor chords on the guitar include A minor, D minor, and E minor. You can play a lot of music from this video lesson, which shows how to read a chord diagram and play these three minor chords [more…]

How to Play Seventh Chords

Playing open-position seventh chords on your guitar is as easy as playing basic major and minor chords. This video will expand your harmonic library by showing you how to play open-position major and minor [more…]

How to Use a Capo

Using a capo on your guitar raises the pitch of the guitar's open strings, so you can use open chords to play in any key. This video lesson demonstrates how to use capos of various kinds: plastic-band, [more…]

How to String a Nylon-String Guitar

Putting a new set of nylon strings on your classical guitar is different from putting metal strings on an electric or acoustic guitar. This video shows you how to restring a classical guitar with nylon [more…]

How to Add Guitar Articulation with Pull-Offs

A pull-off is a basic guitar fretting technique that adds variety to your articulation. This video lesson shows guitar novices the same pull-off techniques that professional guitarists use all the time [more…]

How to Tune a Guitar to Itself Using the Fifth-Fret Method

Tuning a guitar to itself using the fifth-fret method is an important and useful guitar skill. The fifth-fret method is the most common type of relative tuning, and it's all you need if you're planning [more…]

How to Read the Circle of Fifths

Understanding how to read the circle of fifths will help you understand the relation between music's major keys and their relative minor keys. A major key and its relative minor use the same key signature [more…]

How to Read Key Signatures

Key signatures are important when reading music. You must understand how to read key signatures in order to know how to play the notes the way the composer intended. The key signature is a grouping of [more…]

What Is Music Theory?

Understanding music theory means knowing the language of music. The main thing to know about music theory is that it is simply a way to explain the music we hear. Music had existed for thousands of years [more…]

How to Recognize the Beat in Music

Recognizing the beat in a song means finding the pattern and speed of the music. If you know how to recognize the beat, you can control all of the other elements of the music. [more…]

How Musical Notes Are Constructed

You couldn't read or write music without notes. If you think of music as a language, the notes are like letters of the alphabet. If you know how to recognize the notes, you can learn the language. [more…]

How to Find Notes on a Guitar

Finding notes on your guitar is not the same as reading notes on sheet music. To understand how to find notes on a guitar, it helps to break up the neck of the guitar to see where all the notes lie. [more…]

Understanding Half Steps and Whole Steps

The distance between any two musical notes is called and interval. In Western musical notation, the smallest interval is the half step, or semitone. A [more…]

Finding the Major Scales on a Guitar

Finding the major scales on a guitar is not as hard as you might think. Traditionally, guitarists think of the guitar neck as being broken up into blocks of four frets, and, depending on what key you want [more…]

Finding the Natural Minor Scales on a Guitar

Natural minor scales follow the interval pattern Whole step, Half step, Whole step, Whole step, Half step, Whole step, Whole step (WHWWHWW), with the first note [more…]

Finding the Harmonic Minor Scales on a Guitar

The harmonic minor scale is a variation of the natural minor scale. Consequently, finding harmonic minor scales on a guitar is similar to finding a natural minor except that it is off by one half step. [more…]

Finding Melodic Minor Scales on a Guitar

The melodic minor scale is derived from the natural minor scale. To find the melodic minor scale, raise both the sixth and seventh notes of the natural minor scale by one half step when going up the scale [more…]

Examining Chord Progressions

Chord progressions are the patterns that composers use to put musical notes and chords together. Constructing music is about as far from randomly throwing notes together as writing a book is from randomly [more…]

The Anatomy of an Acoustic Guitar

All guitars share certain characteristics that make them behave like guitars and not violins or tubas. Understanding the anatomy of an acoustic guitar is important for understanding how to make music with [more…]

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