Category: Playing Technique

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same chords you already know to get fresh new sounds? Taking familiar chords that use open strings and moving them around on the guitar neck creates great sounding new chords. And the best part is you don’t need to learn a new chord shape! Download a [...]

Don’t just learn one new chord! Learn how to manipulate one chord shape to create chords all over the neck. Plus, find some great rock rhythm chord patterns along the way!  

Tone.  It’s the guitar player’s holy grail.  Those who have it are instantly recognizable.  Have you ever listened to a player and say “Man, he sounds so great.  How does he get that tone?” It doesn’t matter whetheryou play acoustic or electric, the sound of a great guitar can turn a few simple notes from [...]

If you are unfamiliar with guitar tablature (most of the time called “TAB“), let’s set you straight before moving into the main discussion. TAB is a way to notate musical notes and chords that is specific to guitar.  (There have been tablature schemes invented for other fretted instruments too, but you’ll have to find another [...]

Music and Math are attached at the hip it seems. Pitch frequencies are certainly expressed in the purest of math terms. And the shorthand system for pitches and their relationships is also expressed by the very simple math of what we call “intervals”. There is an entire system called the “Nashville Numbers” that assign the [...]