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 | Jul 29, 2014 | Beginner Guitar, Guitar Lessons
In this post we will look at how to play chords on the guitar as well as several tips, tricks and techniques which will make playing chords on the guitar much easier. Have you ever heard someone playing some chords before and every time they switch chords everything...
by Myles English | Jun 23, 2014 | Beginner Guitar, Guitar Lessons, Theory and Harmony
Before reading this blog it is necessary that you understand the construction of major scales. Luckily we have a blog post on major scales if you are unfamiliar with major scales. Major pentatonic scales are used by guitar players and other instrumentalists in all...
by Myles English | May 24, 2014 | Beginner Guitar, Guitar Lessons
Hopefully you’ve carefully gone through the previous lesson Beginner Guitar Scales and you have that C major scale right underneath your fingers. I would strongly suggest not moving forward until you do as we’re building a foundation that we can continue...
by Myles English | May 21, 2014 | Beginner Guitar
So you want to know how to read notes for guitar? It’s actually surprising simple, but like many things it requires consistent practice! It’s a good idea to start with the natural notes (the white keys on the piano) on each string in open position, then...
