by Lloyd English | May 29, 2016 | Beginner Guitar, Front Page 3
You have decided to learn to play and are now looking for the best beginner guitar but it seems there are thousands of choices and where do you start? As you probably know by now guitars come in all colours, shapes and sizes so we will begin by separating them into...
by Lloyd English | May 8, 2016 | Beginner Guitar, Front Page 2
In this post we’re going to look at how to choose acoustic guitar strings. The fundamentals of sounding a note on a guitar are about the striking of and consequent vibration of a string. When the string is attacked it vibrates at a specific number of vibrations...
by Lloyd English | Dec 1, 2014 | Articles, Theory and Harmony
The Guitar Sounds One Octave Lower than Written. Pitches translate to vibrations per second known as hertz, one hertz equals one cycle per second. When we use the piano as our frame of reference for frequency and pitches we can see that A 440 known as A4 or the 49th...
by Lloyd English | Dec 1, 2014 | Articles, Theory and Harmony
There was a time not long ago when in order to get a fake book full of great standard tunes you had to go to your local music store and ask for an illegal copy. The history of the Real Fake Book began as a 4 or 500 page handwritten and then mechanically copied book...
by Lloyd English | Dec 1, 2014 | Articles
The Rhythm chord or “Jazz” rhythm chords have strong musical characteristics as well as a rather colorful history. The Guitar has always had an intimate relationship with dance and thus rhythm and accompaniment in a host of different styles. The Flamenco...
