Guitar Lessons Articles

Make Volume Swells A Part of Your Guitar Vibe

July 14, 2008 – 10:37 am

A volume swell is a musical crescendo commonly associated with the electric guitar. Crescendo, in standard musical notation, refers to a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases.
The technique is often executed by the little finger of the guitarist which is wrapped around the volume pot/knob of the guitar. When the note is [...]

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How to Do a Pinch Harmonic, False Harmonic or Squealies

June 23, 2008 – 9:05 am

Putting “Pinch Harmonics” or “Squealies” in terms you understand is easier to do than say. Technically speaking this is the closest I could get to explaining this subject.
Realistically speaking, this is a fairly advanced technique, it takes me a year to get proficient at playing something such pinch harmonics. I usually stumble through it before [...]

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Essential Scales For The Electric Guitarist

June 6, 2008 – 11:40 am

These are most useful scales for rock guitarists to blues players. Stevie Ray Vaughan used the blues scale almost entirely. They are essential scales for you know if you want to experience any degree of success, again, you must know them inside and out. To be honest, these charts have been laying around for [...]

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A Logical and Effective Method to Practice The Guitar!

April 16, 2008 – 9:59 am

I don’t think there is any mystery to practicing the guitar. If you surf the internet for tips on “how to practice the guitar”, than you might get dizzy. The amount of websites gracing us with their special practice methods on how to shred or play like Jimi Hendrix in two weeks is overwhelming and [...]

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How to Play the Twelve Bar Blues Structure Guitar Lesson.

February 11, 2008 – 12:24 pm

He Got Da Blues

The 12-bar blues progression is the oldest and most en-grained musical structure for the blues out there. It started as a I-IV-V or the 1st - 4th -5th notes or chords of the particular scale you are playing in.
If you want to play the guitar or if you are classified [...]

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