Posted on 21 September 2009. Tags: Backbone, Bad Habits, Chord Progression, Chord Progressions, Closer Look, Electric Guitar, fender, Fret, gibson, Great Guitar, Great Songs, guitar, Guitar Articles, guitar center, guitar chords, Guitar Hero, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players, Guitar Tab, guitar tips, guitarist, Jam Night, Killer Guitar, Learn Guitar, Mike Jones, Mini Guitar, music, Play One, Play Two, Riffs, stratocaster, Thin Air
by Mike Jones
Here’s another Mini Guitar Lesson by Mike Jones from Killer Guitar Tips.
Great guitar players do not just happen out of thin air. Great guitar players have practiced their art and practiced on a regular basis! But be WARNED… Many people practice the wrong things. They actually practice BAD habits. In order to progress you need to practice the right things. I know this sounds blatantly obvious but many, many people get this wrong. They practice things that they actually like which could be reinforcing their bad habits they have already acquired.
YOU’RE in the minority! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You’re in the select 5% of people who will be practicing the CORRECT methods and techniques that will catapult your guitar playing into hyperspace.
So stay tuned…
Let’s get straight on with this mini guitar lesson…
We will start with a really cool chord progression that’s great to play pentatonic riffs over when you are jamming with a friend, it will make you sound like a great player with no effort whatsoever!
So here it is, it’s real easy… Play one bar of each chord A, G, D, and A. Now keep on playing these chords over and over while your friend makes up a solo using the Am pentatonic scale at the fifth fret!! It sounds great.
Why not swop parts and get your friend to play the chords while you solo over this sequence in Am. Just listen to yourself sounding like a top pro player!
Now now have a progression you know that will fit in at any jam night or venue. You will be able to get up with a friend and sound like a real pro guitarist. It just takes a little practice ideally with your friend.
Another great little progression that goes along with this nicely and is the backbone of many great songs is a 4 bar sequence that repeats itself over and over again and is commonly known as the ‘turnaround’.
Lets take a closer look at this so here goes:
Play the 1st bar G, the second is Em, the 3rd is C and the last is a bar of D.
Play the rhythm of 4 beats to a bar and repeat this turnaround to your hearts content.
Again this is a superb jam sequence. Why not get your friends to jam along to it in the key of G. You play the rhythm and they solo over the top then change around, you solo they play rhythm.
Oh, and dont forget that my full guitar audio/video program is loaded with lots of amazing chord sequences that will allow you to lay down great sounding rhythm guitar that will astound your friends and rock your audience.
About the Author:
About Mike Jones The Author: Mike has been teaching and playing guitar as a professional for over two decades. Over this time he has developed a amazing and unique speed learning system that brings the beginner through to great player in the shortest possible time. To find out more about Mike’s amazing techniques and to receive some free tips and tricks why not go to his website at:
Learn Guitar
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Posted on 18 September 2009. Tags: Breadth, Composers, Favorite Songs, Great Guitar, Guitar Tablature, Guitar Teacher, Guitar Teachers, Heart And Soul, Instructional Guitar, Jon Broderick, Learners, Learning Guitar, Learning Resources, Method Books, Music Dvds, Online Guitar Lessons, Sheet Music, Tablature Books, Things About The Guitar, Time Guitar
Jon Broderick asked: Guitarists are insatiable learners and the world is full of great guitar learning material. First of all, there are countless tablature books which show you in the easy-to-learn guitar tablature format how to play all your favorite songs even if you can’t read sheet music. If you can read sheet music, then there is sheet music available for every popular artist and thousands of classical and lesser-known composers. There are also “method books” that teach how to play a particular style, and there are instructional guitar DVDs that show you and tell you everything a single guitarist knows how to do. There are books with CDs full of audio examples, there are DVDs that come with tablature books; the list of available guitar learning resources is endless.
Guitar lessons are still the number one way that guitarists pick up new information. In-person guitar lessons with a local guitar teacher are probably the most effective way to learn new things about the guitar. The world is full of part-time and full-time guitar teachers, who put their heart and soul into teaching their students how to be an ever-improving guitar learning machine. Guitar teachers are expensive, however, and not everyone has the money or the time to commit to in-person lessons. So while this is a truly effective method, it is not for everyone.
Over the last 5 years, online guitar lessons have become an outstanding resource for guitarists wanting to learn guitar at a convenient pace and at very low cost. In my opinion, online guitar lessons have come of age, and are now the best tool for learning guitar available to anyone anywhere. I don’t propose that online guitar lessons should supplant books, sheet music, DVDs, and in-person guitar lessons. What I would like to suggest is that online guitar lessons are more convenient, cheaper, more useable, and provide more breadth of information than any other method available.
Convenience: Tablature books are OK, as long as they come with some audio examples. DVDs are OK, as long as they come with a book. The problem is that keeping your place in the book and your place on the CD/DVD in synch is difficult. Every time you take a break (every day basically) you lose your place and have to synch up all over again. Online guitar lessons, on the other hand, solve the problem of synching the tab, explanation, and audio/video samples. A web page is the ultimate guitar lesson format: audio, video, and text all together in one document.
Price: Books and DVDs have to be manufacturer, shipped, and inventoried. If you have ever burned a CD or made some copies at a copy shop, you know that manufacturing a product costs real money. Imagine if you had to turn around and sell your product at a profit? Shipping a book or DVD to the retailer is another expense in traditional publishing that occurs before the product is even ready to be sold. Inventory, the hidden expense, can be the largest: every month the book sits in the store, it costs the owner a percent of the price to pay for it to be kept out of the rain, and if the inventory is bought on credit, there is interest on the loan as well. All told, it is no wonder there are few places that sell guitar lesson products even in a large city.
Breadth: Guitar books generally can only have a few hundred pages; DVDs can only hold a couple of hours of video. A web site can expand to the size of a whole library full of books and DVDs. This is one aspect of the size advantage of online guitar lessons, but the more important aspect is this: getting a book published is so difficult, that many great guitarists simply never try it. Publishing a web site is so easy that many fantastic guitarists who would never previously have published their knowledge can now publish their guitar lessons online where you can find them.
As you can see, online guitar lessons have significant advantages that should make them an important part of any guitarist’s learning strategy. As the internet continues to grow, and the use of video on the internet spreads, look for online guitar lessons to one day be the recognized leader in helping guitarists improve their skills in a convenient, inexpensive way.
Learn Guitar
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Posted on 14 September 2009. Tags: beginning guitar, Great Guitar, guitar, Guitar Articles, Guitar Books, Guitar Instructor, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Player, Guitar Players, Guitar Teacher, Hard Time, how tom, Intense Program, Jamorama, lead guitar, music, Playing The Guitar, Pop Songs, Quite Some Time, rock band, Search Engines, Skill Level, Sound Files, Video Instruction
Jamorama is configured to instruct you to play songs, learn to play songs by ear, and transcribe music you listen . It is not a theory intense program, but it does cover the basics.
Jamorama creator, Ben Edwards is a solid guitar instructor and I imagine you’ll like his teaching style. He’s a pro player and is also a prepared instructor. Ben has been teaching as well as playing for a lot of years and is familiar with each guitar books as well learning courses that are available presently.
Jamorama is professionally put together, and I was really impressed by how helpful the instructions were. I used to go to the search engines and seek to find scattered bits of guitar lessons and guides, but ever since I tried out Jamorama, it saved me a load of time and effort.
You get a thirty day free access to the website Songpond.com. This is a learn to play guitar fast site that shows you how to play pop songs through video instruction. Jamorama contains the same of about six months worth of guitar lessons if you were to space them out like you were taking every week lessons from a local guitar teacher. A local teacher normally will charge anywhere from $20 to $50 per lesson.
A great skill you’ll learn using this guide is how to “jam” with other players. Many beginning guitar players (and some advanced ones) have a hard time with this aspect of music making.
Jamorama is packed full of quality step-by-step lessons, sound files, games and other resources to take you from where you’re now to being a great guitar player, and get YOU results fast, regardless of your current skill level! I cant emphasize this enough; Jamorama makes learning FUN!
Jamorama is the idea of a former lead guitar player for the New Zealand-based rock band called Degrees K and his name is Ben Edwards. If you’ve been playing the guitar for quite some time now or if you are just a beginner, you’ll surely appreciate this system and the best thing about Jamorama is, you can learn to play guitar fast or rhythm guitar the fun and entertaining way.
Learn to play guitar fast can be easy with Jamorama.
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Posted on 01 September 2009. Tags: Basic Chords, Chord Sheets, Douglas Taylor, Fingering, First Steps, Fret, Great Guitar, Guitar Books, Guitar Chord Sheet, guitar chords, guitar neck, Guitar Player, Learning Guitar, Many Different Ways, Playing The Guitar, Plenty Of Time, Popular Music, Real Music, Right Position, Three Chords
Douglas Taylor asked:
Learning guitar chords are one of the first steps to great guitar playing. You will be surprised how many different songs you will be able to play just by mastering a few simple guitar chords. By learning the G, C, D, A and E chords you will be able to play a lot of popular music. Learning guitar chords are one of the secrets to playing real music.
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You need to start with the basics when you first start learning guitar chords. Chords consist of three or more notes played together. Every chord has a unique fingering on the frets and strings. If you want to master playing the guitar you will need to spend plenty of time getting your fingers in just the right position. Take enough time to memorize each one until it becomes natural to do. Repeat this over and over until your fingers remember the right spot to go on the guitar neck.
There are many different ways to learn how to play chords. It would be great if you have a friend or teacher to show you the way. When you get stuck it always helps to have someone you can turn to help you learn things the right way. However if you do not know anyone who can help you out there are many good guitar books.
Another way to learn how to play is to use a guitar chord sheet. These can be found in many books and all over the Internet. Chord sheets are pictures that show you where to put your fingers. There are lines that show you which string to use and tell you the correct fret to be on.
Although the basic chords are pretty simple to learn, as you advance in your playing you will find some of the fingerings will get hard. These will take you a little longer to get down but once you can combine both the simple and hard chords you will be well on your way to becoming a great guitar player.
You will not believe how many great tunes you can play just by mastering two or three chords. Once you learn a couple of chords it is time to get busy making music.
If you want to master guitar chords you can do it with practice. It is not that hard but it will not happen overnight. Spend as much time as you need learning guitar chords right so you will not have to undo any bad habits. Once you get it you will have a skill that will be with you all of your life.
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