GuitarBasementPlay through the Ultimate Guitar Bar Chord Exercise song on this page to develop: Ability to recognize and change chords quickly Skill and control to change chords efficiently Muscles in the hand and arm that you need to play good sounding chords Get the Chord Charts & TAB The Chord Chart and TAB will be […]
What does, “Gospel Guitar Chords” mean? Before answering that, let’s try and find out about the term Gospel music. According to this Wikipedia article, Gospel music is a genre of Christian music. The same article goes on to say that, the most famous variant is “black gospel.” Black gospel music often has very rich harmonies. […]
What is a guitar finishing sander? Actually I am referring to a neat little hand held sander that takes the grunt work out of sanding. It isn’t made exclusively for guitar, but one of the first uses that I had for it was for working on guitars. Watch the video below where I sand down […]
Knowing how to play guitar scales around chords gives you a certain amount of freedom to improvise and compose. Start with the basic major chord shapes and learn the scales around those chords. Watch the video below to see a lesson from “Guitar Fretboard Secrets,” a course available on Udemy, and now with Part 1 […]
You don’t need to know these Guitar Fretboard Secrets if you have a photographic memory. For those who don’t, keep reading! First, some background. I was fortunate to have had classical guitar lessons from 8 years old. In the beginning I learned to read comfortably playing in a few keys in open position. Later as […]
This article and video shows how to pull frets from a guitar or other fretted instrument without causing damage to the instrument. With the correct tools this is not as difficult as you might think. In the video that follows, watch how I did this for the first time without much difficulty. Since this was […]
Using Melodyne in Mixcraft works similar to the way it does in other DAW software applications. Melodyne is typically used for vocals to correct pitch and timing. However, in the video below I show how to use it for guitar and bass. If you have Mixcraft Pro, you will also have an integrated license of […]
How to Learn the Guitar Fretboard – try these suggestions. . . Guitar Chord Inversions
Did you know that you can Create TAB in Mixcraft Pro? Well, at least you can make a file that to import into Noteflight that allows you to print out TAB and Standard Notation from there. Noteflight is an online Music Notation program that you can access from your PC, phone or tablet. Setup a […]
In the Budget Ukulele Review we compare models with street price of around $100. Some well meaning advice: Avoid buying the absolute cheapest instrument when starting to play an instrument. When shopping for any instrument, it’s always a personal judgement. I chose one of these to keep. Based on the video, it’s likely that you […]