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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 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 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 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 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…]
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…]
How Guitar Strings and Frets Work
Guitar strings create musical sound through vibration. Understanding how strings work with frets to create specific vibrations (and therefore specific tones) will help you to understand why your guitar [more…]
The Ups and Downs of Strumming a Guitar
One of the most basic ways you can play chords is with a strum. Strumming the guitar is the simple act of brushing the strings with a pick, thumb, or the back of your fingernails. A strum can be slow, [more…]
The Anatomy of an Electric Guitar
All guitars share certain characteristics that make them behave like guitars and not violins or tubas. Understanding the anatomy of an electric guitar is important for understanding how to make music with [more…]
How to Play the “Oldies” Progression on Guitar
Once you can play the basic major and minor chords on guitar, you can play lots of popular songs right away. One of the first guitar licks you can learn is the [more…]
How to Use Left-Hand Muting to Create a Crisp Guitar Rhythm
When it comes to rhythm guitar, you need to learn how to stop the strings. Just listen to blues rhythm guitar and you'll hear that it’s not one repetitive wall of sound, but an open, varied sound with [more…]
How to Play an E Major Chord in the Guitar
The backbone of guitar playing is the basic chord, and learning how to play an E major chord is a great place to start. A chord is defined as the simultaneous sounding of three or more notes of different-named [more…]
Adding Intros, Turnarounds, and Endings to the 12-Bar Blues Progression
Although the 12-bar blues progression has a signature blues sound, if you plan to play blues, rock, or jazz guitar on a regular basis, you'll want to learn how to accessorize the 12-bar blues. Intros, [more…]
How to Evaluate a Guitar
When you go shopping for a new guitar, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of guitars available in every style. It's important to know how to evaluate a guitar's quality to ensure that you are getting [more…]
How to Practice Major Scale Pattern #1 for Guitar
You can play a lot of guitar music if you've memorized the five major scale patterns. The best way to practice major scale patterns for guitar is to practice playing them [more…]
How to Play E-Based Major Barre Chords on Guitar
Unlike the guitar's open-position chords, barre chords can move all around the neck of your guitar. A movable barre chord contains no open strings — only fretted notes. You can slide these fretted notes [more…]
How to Play Power Chords on Guitar
Guitarists use power chords — built on the lowest notes of a regular open-position or barre chord — in rock music to create a low sound. Power chords are easier to play than are their full-version counterparts [more…]
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