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Did you notice the pack of teens that just skirted by? Amongst the mid-drift t-sh

irts, the micro white shorts, and the streaks of neon yellow and green that peak through, there’s a new theme that teenagers are proclaiming. Body jewelry, now becoming mainstream, is giving

way to the Ed Hardy shirts, while the craze to declare ones love for music shines. Be it a guitar pick hanging from a long neck chain, or a rhinestone guitar bracelet, guitar jewelry is hot.

“It’s a chance to show our own style” uttered Jim, a tall but slightly built teen, who had several guitar pick necklaces around his neck, on top of a ripped T Shirt with tattoo motifs ablaze. “Skulls” and “Death” in bright colors intertwined as the soft melancholy vocals of the band “tomorrow’s death” played on. “My girlfriend and I hooked up at the last concert and we rock”, proclaimed Jim as he proudly showed us the new necklace just purchased for his girlfriend – a long chain with guitar pick, rhinestone guitar and peace sign charms.

Attributed to Hannah Montana, or perhaps a resurgent love for the guitar itself, teens are in love with the motif. From the buzzing and wildly electric craze, to the more mellow and enjoyable country folk sound, guitars are everywhere – emblems on a blouse; screened onto a hat, or guitar jewelry, the theme is simple – MUSIC LIVES inside all of us. Declared with youthful energy as individual styles are decided, it appears that teens have struck a new note on a recurrent theme – Rock ‘n Roll is here to stay – a theme which many of us might recall from a few years back.
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In this article I will be covering the basics of scale guitar lessons which will cover some common mistakes beginners make, tips on how to catch o

n faster and changes you might have to make in your everyday life to master guitar scales.

Avoid trying to learn to many scales at one time because after you spent all your time memorizing them, you may not use them. They might end up not being the type of music you end up liking to play. You should also avoid learning by repetition as this can become very tedious and your want to give up will

be a lot greater.

Scale guitar lessons can be easier to learn through “ear training” and it’s an important skill to learn in order to play better or even writing the note

s of a song while you just listen to the song on a radio. If you can learn this skill it will be invaluable to making you a better guitarist faster.

It’s important to have a clear idea of what your goals are when it comes to your scale guitar lessons. Such questions like what books, DVDs and other resources you will use to learn scales, how much time each day you will devote to scale practice and what guitar scales you need to learn, in order to get you playing as soon as you start.

As far as what changes you may need to make in your daily life there are a few things to consider. Some of the things that take up a lot of your free time and make you hesitant to give up can cut into your scale guitar lessons. Things like the amount of television you watch in your free time, how much partying you do or maybe even having to get up earlier if you have other engagements that take up your day.
Author: Denise Heeren

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Teaching yourself to play any musical instrument must begin with learning about the parts of the instrument and what each part does, the

electric guitar is no different. Hopefully after reading this article you will feel more confident that you too can teach yourself to play.

Body: This is the main part of the instrument and it is usually made of some kind of wood. The body holds all the parts of the instrument. It comes in an infinite array of shapes, sizes and colors.

Fret Board:This is the part of the instrument that is also referred to as the neck. The fret board holds the frets.

Frets:The frets are small metal ridges that you press the strings against to produce differ

ent notes. Different electric guitars have different numbers of frets, some have 20, some have 21 or more.

Tuning Pegs: The function of the tuning pegs should be fairly obvious; they serve to tension the strings which will enable you to get the desired sound from the instrument.

Headstock:The headstock is the part of the instrument that sits on top of the fret board or neck. The headstock holds the tuning pegs.

I hope you are starting to see how an electric guitar is put together and how it produces its beautiful music. Check back for additional articles where we will finish exploring the anatomy of this timeless instrument. In the next article I will finish describing the different parts and then you will be ready to start teaching yourself to play and produce beautiful music.

Learning to play is not as difficult as you might think, I was able to do it with the aid of free video guitar lessons that I found online. Watching video lessons made it very easy because I could learn at my own speed. Iwas also able to stop and rewind the video when Ineeded to view a part of the lesson more than once.
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As a beginning guitarist, it is important to learn the basic open chords. Using a campfire songbook or folk songbook is the best kind of book to begin with.

When I was a kid, I started off with a guitar book by Jerry Snyder. It wasn’t really considered a campfire songbook, but many of the songs were excellent for campfire singing. I believe it was called the Guitar Sing Book. It is out of print now. There were a lot of folk-rock songs that were popular in the 70′s. I used many of those songs around campfires and literally wore it out. So I bought a new one and wore that one out too. What was great about that book was that it used mostly easy open chords. It also included a suggested picking or strumming pattern at the beginning of each song.

As a guitar teacher, I usually spend time teaching both chords and how to read notes. I also spend some time teaching tablature. This article is concerned with just reading chords, so we won’t cover notes or tab. If you are interested in learning notes, there are tons of books for beginning guitar. I like to use Jay Traylor’s book called Classical Guitar for the Young.

For absolute beginners, I find it best if you start off with songs that only use 2 chords, and don’t change too fast. Some good songs to start with are:

• Chumbara. It uses only the C and G7 chords. It’s a fast song, so slow it down as you learn it.
• He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands. Here is another two chord song, using only D and A7. This one is a little slower than Chumbara; It is easy to learn; and is a very popular campfire song.
• Michael Row the Boat Ashore. This song uses three chords. It uses G, D and A7. It is also very popular around campfires.
• Crawdad Song. A, E and B7 are the three chords in this song. B7 uses the 4 finger so it is a little more difficult, but since you will be using it a lot with the E and A chords, you should learn it as soon as you can. The E and A chords are important to learn, especially if you plan on moving to to bar chords. Bar chords are used on electric guitar in country, rock, jazz and other styles.

Most songs center around two chords that we call the I and V chords. For example; If a song that is in the key of C, the I chord is the C and the V chord is the G or G7. (C is I, D is II, E is III, F is IV, G is V, A is VI and B is VII. This is real basic music theory. Some of these chords are major, some are minor, but that can be taught in another lesson.)

Here are the pairs of I, V chords:

• C and G7
• D and A7
• E and B7
• G and D7
• A and E7
• F and C7

These chords are the easiest to learn. They are chords that you will use a lot for folk songs and campfire songs.

Here are the other I, V pairs:

• Db and Ab7
• Eb and Bb7
• F# and C#7
• Ab and Eb7
• Bb and F7
• B and F#7

Here’s a tip: When you are learning to change from one chord to another, watch out for patterns. Example; When you change from C to G7, the hand shape stays the same, all you do is move the first finger from the second string, 1st fret, over to the first string, 1st fret, and you move the the 2nd and 3rd fingers from the 4th and 5th strings, out to the 5th and 6th strings.

Here’s another example: G to D7. With the G chord, the third finger plays on the first string, 3rd fret. As you move to the D7, just slide that finger back to the 2nd fret, and bring the 1st and 2nd fingers, as if they were glued together, from the 5th and 6th strings, up to the 2nd and 3rd strings.

Here’s another tip: Below is a good exercise to help you learn to change chords faster. Do your best to keep a steady beat.

Exercise One:

Strum C four beats. Rest four beats. Strum G7 four beats. Rest four beats. Repeat the exercise over and over several times. It should gradually get easier changing back and forth between C and G7.

Exercise Two:

St 1ff8 rum C five beats. Rest three beats. Strum G7 five beats. Rest 3 beats. Again, repeat it over and over several times. You will notice that you strum one more beat and rest one less beat.

Exercise Three:

Strum C six beats. Rest two beats. Strum G7 six beats. Rest two beats. Do you see what is happening? As you go to each new exercise, you have less time to change during the rests.

Exercise Four:

Strum C seven beats. Rest one beat. Strum G7 seven beats. Rest one beat. When you play songs out of the campfire songbook, you could actually play using this little trick as you approach a chord change. It is more important to begin on beat one with the new chord than it is to play right up through beats three and four previous to the new chord.

Exercise Five:

Strum C eight beats. Strum G7 eight beats. When you get to this point, you no longer need a break between chord changes. This should be your goal.

The idea behind this exercise is to strum four beats, then rest four beats while you change to the next chords. The next step is to strum five beats, then rest three beats. The next exercise you strum six and rest two. The fourth exercise you strum seven and rest one. Finally, in the last exercise, you strum eight and then change with no rest at all.

These are just a few tips that will help you learn to play guitar with a folk songbook or a campfire songbook. I hope it helps you.

In the meantime; happy playing and singing! May all your campfires be fun and musical!
Author: Roger L Turner

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 Typically, bluegrass lessons involve acoustic equipment: no electric at all, and no drums! Many people believe bluegrass guitar to be very complicated, but it can also be very simple. Bluegrass is what you make it.

The origins of bluegrass lie way back to the days when times were hard for most; the day of shanties and life without all today’s modern conveniences. It has a raw acoustic sound, and should be fun to play and fun to listen to. It is something to take your mind off the daily worries of life, and allow yourself just to be yourself.

Bluegrass guitar lessons will not teach you bluegrass in a week: it’s for the longer haul and those of you that want to have fun while you learn. Bluegrass involves a good strong bass rhythm, and in between each bass pick you strum. You can make use of some of the traditional guitar techniques, used a lot by solo guitarists. Techniques such as hammers ons and pull offs can spice up a bluegrass run, and allow you to play with fewer picks.

Basically a hammer on is where you play a note then switch frets quickly by hammering a finger onto another note, using the same string vibration for more than one note. A pull off is when you fret a string, play it and then pull your finger off, playing another note with the same string vibration. Judicious use of these techniques allow you to play much faster and with fewer right hand movements.

You can then play two bass notes to each pick, and all the time remember that the picks take prominence over the chords. Which takes us on to chords. In bluegrass you have to learn chords and it is useful to have a good armory chords in your arsenal. The basic guitar skills of chords and scales apply as much to learning bluegrass guitar as to any other style. Bluegrass guitar lessons will focus on picks and chords, and your picking style is also very important.

Picking forwards and backwards combine with hammer ons and pull offs to enable you to increase your playing speed. These very fast bluegrass riffs that you all admire involve all of these techniques and more. You have no time to think on every individual note or chord, and have to build a memory of what comes next. That is where a mastery of scales can help you – that continual practice might seem a waste of time, but it is all money in the bank.

Bluegrass guitar involves learning different sequences of pick and strum, and then putting them together to form a finished piece. You don’t have to think on the individual notes in each sequence, just how to fit them together so that from a few sequences you can fit them together in different ways to suit the tune.

Before you start on your lessons there is some essential equipment you will need in addition to an acoustic guitar. Your pick is important, and you will find it difficult to play bluegrass guitar with too soft a pick. The best picks are stiff and made from tortoise shells. If you can get that, your pick should be fairly thick and not bend or flex much at all.

You should also get yourself a capo: that’s one of these devices that clamps onto the neck to effectively make the strings play shorter. What a capo does is to change the key you are playing in. Basically the capo allows you to play in G, while the capo adjustment makes it sound like other keys. Since bluegrass is played generally only between G and C the capo allows you to do that by learning to play only in G.

As for the bluegrass guitar lessons themselves, it is very difficult to learn just from a book. A good bluegrass guitar teaching book with a CD would be better: the CD at least let’s you hear what you are learning should sound like. However, by far the best bet is a video or DVD. With these you can see what your teacher is demonstrating as well as hear it. You can copy the finger movements and see exactly how you should be holding your guitar and your pick. You will understand better how a capo can be used to change key without changing your fingering. However, there is an even better way.

An online membership that offers tuition in different guitar styles, with an option of teachers, is likely the best way to learn bluegrass guitar, or any guitar style for that matter. OK, you might have to pay every month, but you get fresh material with such a site, as opposed to the one-time-only DVD, and can also try out a few other guitar styles when you need a rest from the pick-strum-pick-strum sequences of bluegrass.

Try a bit of country fingerpicking style, or even some ole heavy metal! When you are practicing hard with an end in sight, it’s good to relax a bit and enjoy practicing something else for a while. You could even get some practice at the techniques you will have to learn, such as hammer ons and others.

Without a doubt, bluegrass guitar lessons will teach a different guitar style that is fun to play, and if you choose your teaching medium properly, could open your horizon to a whole host of alternative styles and techniques that can do nothing but improve your abilities as a guitar musician.

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A look at one of the most influential classical guitarists of the modern era. His contributions include a very large repertoire of work and a gift for transcription and interpretation of plucked instrument music that spans five centuries.

Julian Bream is one of the most famous classical guitarists of the twentieth century and he has achieved worldwide fame not only for the guitar but also for his work with the Renaissance Lute. He is considered to be one of the most important ambassadors of the classical guitar and has formed a solid bridge between the music of the past with the technology of today. He helped usher the classical guitar into the modern age.
He was born in 1933 and took up the classical guitar on his eleventh birthday when he received one as a present. He was already an accomplished musician having studied piano and cello but with the classical guitar and lute he excelled.

Significant Contributions
In 1960 he formed a group called the Julian Bream Consort. It was an Elizabethan period ensemble for which Bream played the lute. This Consort brought about a revival in interest of the Elizabethan era which is considered to be a period of time that was the absolute pinnacle of the English Renaissance. His work with this group earned him a Grammy award for best chamber music performance. This award would be the first of many awards which include three more Grammy awards.

One of the most important contributions he made to the world of the classical guitar was his development of a complete repertoire for performance. His transcriptions of works for guitar and lute span five centuries and he has particularly focused on lute works from the Elizabethan era and Spanish guitar works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also had many composers create works specifically for him.

Ambassador to the media of the Twentieth Century
Bream has embraced television and radio and used these media to bring classical guitar and lute to a mass audience. His 2003 DVD video profile Julian Bream: My Life in Music, which is a three hour long piece, includes interviews and performances and is considered to be one of the finest contributions ever made to the world of Classical Guitar. He has also created a British television series entitled Guitarra! It charts a musical journey across Spain.

Learn More about Him
If you are looking to read more about him there is a newly published book called The Art of Julian Bream. If you are looking to experience some of his music you might want to start with his collaborative work with John Williams. They are a two volume set entitled Together and Together Again. If you want a more encompassing view of his music as it spans the decades he has a two volume CD set called The Ultimate Guitar Collection. The first CD is a compilation of many of his transcriptions and the second CD focuses on his works for Spanish guitar.

Julian Bream is one of the greatest classical of the modern day. His tireless performance and work with the guitar has spanned many decades of personal performance and many centuries of music. He has bridged the gap between the past and the future by giving us an enormous repertoire of music in just about every modern mode of media from CD to television and film. And it is his particular gift for transcription and interpretation that has enabled him to bring five centuries of plucked instrument music into the modern world.
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It used to be the only way to find guitar lessons for kids was to either go to the library or music store and buy and buy a book that normally could not hold children’s attention long enough for them to learn very much. The other alternative was to pay a private music teacher to teach them how to play guitar. The issue with this is obviously the cost and the fact that if a child does not retain the information you certainly do not want to keep paying that teacher to come back to the house.

The great thing about the internet is you can now find guitar lessons for kids that offer interactive training that will help to keep them focused because it uses technology they are familiar with and it seems less like studying when they can do it online.

These new guitar instructions for kids can also be much more affordable than conventional options and they are beginning to integrate audio and video technologies that make learning much more easily achieved. Obviously the benefits are also that you have a digital resource that you can continually refer back to and if you have more than one child then you have instructions for all of them whenever or if they decide they want to learn to play guitar.

You can misplace a hard copy instruction book but losing digital copy is a bit harder and even if it got erased by accident you can simply just download another copy. Many of the popular instructional guides are also offering lifetime free updates so if they add enhanced lessons you can get those without additional costs.

Basically the only thing you need is a computer and access to the internet as well as a way to read pdf files because most digital products are formatted using this format but pdf readers are easy to find online and commonly free to download and use.
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One of the big events in fingerstyle guitar playing many years ago was the publication of a music book called "Beatles For Classical Guitar". This was the world’s first attempt to mix the simplicity of the Beatles’ tunes with the complexity of classical guitar technique.

One of the first things that fingerpicking guitar players who were not trained in classical guitar playing noticed was that the fingerings to some of the tunes were much more difficult to execute than they had been used to. But no pain, no gain. The trickier arrangements indicated how much more musical richness had been found in these more complicated arrangements of familiar songs.

Some guitar players thought that a book of classical guitar arrangements of the work of The Beatles was just a gimmick. They expected that a minimal amount of work went into these arrangements just to produce popular music for the "egghead market". In fact the songs are all substantial arrangements that many classical guitarists find extremely satisfying to play.

People who loved the Beatles’ music found that the songs had not been rendered unrecognizable in the process of arranging them for fingerpicking. The songs were arranged for guitar players who could read standard musical notation and they were not the kind of arrangements that could be played right through on sight the first time you saw them. The pieces asked you to pay some attention and make some effort. Once you get the feel of the way the songs have been interpreted you can let your familiarity with the songs guide you as you play.

Some guitar players are going to feel cheated by the fact that there are not tabs but the pieces are a bit too complicated to be translated into tab effectively. Guitarists who are used to playing using sheet music will be gratified that the music is not made more complicated by the addition of a tab line.

Here is the list of songs:

Across The Universe
Ask Me Why
Come Together
Cry Baby Cry
Day Tripper
For No One
From Me To You
Hello, Goodbye
Here Comes The Sun
I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
I Will
I’ll Follow The Sun
I’m A Loser
I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
I’m Only Sleeping
I’m So Tired
In My Life
The Long And Winding Road
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
No Reply
Nowhere Man
P.S. I Love You
Penny Lane
Something
Things We Said Today
This Boy (Ringo’s Theme)
Two Of Us
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Yesterday
You’re Going To Lose That Girl

You might be surprised by the inclusion of some of the tunes in a collection of guitar solos. So go ahead and try them out.

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So you want to be a rockstar. The high scores you’ve been getting on "Guitar Hero" and "Rockband" have you eager to try to learn the real thing. You have seen a lot of them, but do Internet guitar lessons really work?

In the past learning to play guitar either involved spending longand expensive class time with a professional guitar teacher, or trying to wade through boring and somewhat complex guitar theory books which can be so difficult to follow. Many a budding guitarist has simply given up altogether in frustration.

Internet guitar lessons offer a far more interactive, and often fun way, to learn to play guitar. There is no one standing over you making you feel nervous or like an underachiever, and most good internetbased systemslet you learn completely at your own pace, however fast or slow that might be.

Another great advantage is how relatively inexpensive they are. In fact, many of the courses available online will allow you to try a few lessons free, so you can get a feel for the style of instruction and decide if it is really right for you. 

No one becomes a Hendrix in ten days, whether they take private instruction with a music tutor (no, not even if that tutor was Jimi himself) or they decide to take internet guitar lessons. Any program that claims to be able to do that for you is exaggerating massively to say the least. Whatever method you choose when it comes to learning to play guitar, practice is the key. When choosing a method of guitar instruction, especially an internet guitar lessons system, look at the real features being offered , not just the glitzy hype they may be surrounded by.

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Is it time to get serious about playing guitar? Could I make a living as a ‘pro’ guitarist? Music school is a lot more than I can afford right now, but perhaps something I ultimately want to do-how can I get ready for it? If you’re in your late teens or early twenties and playing music for fun, you might be asking yourself these sorts of questions.

Young guitar players seem to fall into one of two camps. There’s the ‘I want to play in a band on the Van’s tour and that’s all I really care about’ crowd. And then there’s the, ‘I’d like to be a studio musician making a good living recording records for people and doing the occasional tour if the money’s right’ group. If you fall into the second category, you’re going to need another level of skills than you can get reading tab and learning tunes off records- you’re going to have to get serious about studying music.

But before you take out loans or talk your parents into shelling out upwards of $18k a year for a pro music school, I advise acquiring a strong set of basic skills. Before you arrive at school you should be able read and write 1/4 and 1/8th note rhythms. You should be able to recognize by ear major scale intervals up and down. You should have at least a beginning understanding of music theory and have memorized the order of sharps and flats and key signatures. That may sound daunting, but actually, a few months practice with the right private instructor, community college class, or home/internet guitar course is all it will take to master those skills.

Most community colleges will offer a fundamentals of music course, sometimes combined with fundamentals of piano. Larger schools will also have guitar classes. If you have the time this is a great way to get started acquiring theory basics.
A private instructor is another way to go, but it can get expensive-with the average guitar lesson now costing around $40 an hour. If you can afford it AND you can find an instructor who’s a good match, this is a terrific way to advance your guitar playing. One problem you’ll run into though is that it’s hard to maintain the discipline it takes to plod through the music theory and reading part of the lesson when you’re having so much fun learning licks and tunes.
Of course these days you can find a lot of information online for free. Perhaps my favorite free music instruction site is Ricci Adam’s MusicTheory.net. Ricci’s online lessons in music theory are excellent. But the ear trainers are my favorite. Like playing a game, the trainers keep score. You can turn intervals on and off in order to focus on the ones you’re having trouble with (i.e. turn everything except the 4ths and 5ths off). You can have the intervals played low to high, high to low or harmonically. There are also chord and scale ear trainers.
Another option is the Learn and Master Guitar course by Steve Krenz. For about the cost of 3-4 private lessons you can own your own in depth home study course. Learn and Master Guitar consists of 10 well-produced DVDs, 5 Jam Track CDs and a lesson book. Twenty very well planned guitar lessons are presented in a natural learning curve. I’m impressed with Steve’s clear presentation of the information. I appreciate the graphics and cutaways. His examples are well chosen. Each lesson builds on the previous one. I could compare Learn and Master Guitar to a semester of college level guitar curriculum.
Learn And Master Guitar introduces you to written guitar music in the second lesson and that remains a part of each of the subsequent lessons. Along with the meat and potatoes- chords, power chords, jazz chords. fingerstyle guitar, pentatonics, blues progressions etc. Steve includes enough extras to keep things spicy including, for instance, sliding, bends, hammer-ons, chicken pickin’ and jazz octaves. The Jam Along CDs provide a great way to master each lesson before moving on to the next.

However you decide to master guitar and theory basics before heading off to music school, you’ll be glad you did- with that out of the way, you’ll be able to concentrate on the playing (fun) part.

By: Ed Nelson

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