What with Valentine’s Day fast approaching, any one would be forgiven for wanting to quickly brush up on their guitar skills, picking up one of many easy guitar love songs along the way. If only to role play common and out dated ideas of chivalry and charm, it’s simply that time of year where a […]
10 Easy Electric Guitar Songs
Practically any song can be played on the guitar, to more or less effective results. This is certainly more true for an electric than an acoustic guitar, the latter of which boasts unparalleled freedom of experimentation with sound. In fact, I would argue that what makes the electric guitar so special is the fact that […]
How to Play the A Sharp Minor Chord on Guitar
Learning new guitar chords is always a good thing. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced guitarist, adding new chords to your repertoire can improve your improvisation and songwriting alike. Today, we’ll take a look at the memorable A sharp minor guitar chord. What’s an A Sharp Minor Guitar Chord? The A sharp minor guitar […]
How to Play the D Sharp Minor Chord on Guitar
The D sharp minor chord has an air of melancholy about it, and it works quite well in many progressions in a minor key. Today, we’ll take you through how to play the D sharp minor guitar chord — it’s easier than you think! What’s the D Sharp Minor Guitar Chord? Like many minor chords, […]
The G# Chord: How to Play G Sharp Chord on Guitar
Learning new chords is a great way to add some excitement to your practice routine. Today we’ll be looking at one of the less frequently used guitar chords out there: G sharp major. The G sharp guitar chord takes the popular G major chord and raises it by a half step. What’s a G Sharp […]
8 One String Guitar Songs
Impatience is a key theme in the trajectory of many a guitarist, blotting their respective paths to mastery and artistic wellbeing. Very often it’s hard to motivate ourselves to put the hours in, to instil what can initially seem confusing and painstaking into our muscle memory, thus enabling us eventually to forget about it. We […]
12 Best Sad Guitar Songs
Placing best and sad beside each other in a sentence seems awfully antithetical, no? How can there be best sad guitar songs? Aren’t they all equally as sad, or best? Not as far I am concerned! Some songs are sadder than others, and the quality of some is greater than those that they are often […]
Home Chord By Michael Buble
Michael Buble’s song Home is an emotive tale of someone who begins to miss a loved one and is finally coming home. And while the Home guitar chords Michael Buble wrote may be a little more challenging than some, they’re well worth learning. We’ll take you through the Home lyrics and chords and show you […]
Play Blues Shuffle in C
If you’re looking to learn to play blues, starting with some of the genre’s main rhythms is a great way to start. Today, we’ll be looking at the blues shuffle, one of the most frequently used rhythms in blues music. We’ll be focusing on blues shuffle in C, but you can apply some of the […]
7 Best Fingerpicking Songs
So, you have had enough of simple old strumming and want to expand the fretboard, taking your harmonic knowledge to new heights? Or perhaps you simply better want to accompany your self or a companion while they serenade you or another? Whichever your path, fingerpicking songs would do well along it, achieving both of these […]
3 Minor Swing Chords
The epic, all encompassing, omnipotent jazz standard. Each and every one, simply by having been covered and performed so many times by so many different artists, occupies some special relevance in one’s mind, seems to operate beyond its bounds and exude a special power all its own, so evasive is it to typical notions of […]
9 Three Chord Songs You Must Know
There is something in music that imbues even the most simple things with a special power. Often, our favorite music feels so out of reach, imbued as it is with this special something, so often instilled by our own selves, our love and adoration for this music and these songs in particular. However, so, so […]
8 Guitar Songs with 4 Chords
The guitar can often feel like an unwieldy beast, with a wrath and a mind all of its own, feeling more like a pre-human creature than an instrument for your own enjoyment. However, there is plenty to grip onto with guitar song with 4 chords, too: for one, the previous several decades and annuls of […]
Do Your Fingers Hurt from Playing a Guitar? 5 Tips and Tricks to Ease or Prevent the Pain
We may all be unique in our own way, in the face that we show the world, in the personality that accompanies it, and especially, we like to think, in the way we play the guitar and think about music. However, it is doubtless that at some point or other, all guitarists have had their […]
Modes Formula: All You Need to Know
If you’ve been playing guitar, piano, or any other instrument for any length of time, you might have heard of musical modes (sometimes called “Greek modes” or “church modes”). A mode refers to a variant of a musical scale that creates a different melodic character. Essentially, modes let you find new ways of using notes […]
Harmonic Series (Music) Overview
Delving in any way deeper into the heart of music theory, one is never very far from the hulking form of mathematics, bearing it’s breath down on all unsuspecting visitors. Numbers are inherently valuable throughout music, enabling us to communicate our intentions and aims with collaborators and band members with ease and on the fly. […]
Minor Key Signatures
Western music theory is littered with jargon and turns of terminology that can often be confounding and confusing, which itself is spurred on a great deal by the ambiguities inherent in Western languages, English in particular. Take ‘Minor Key Signatures’, for example, which you would be forgiven for thinking is going to be an article […]
The Tennessee Whiskey Chords on Guitar
The lyrics and chords Tennessee Whiskey uses are straightforward yet heartfelt. It’s a story of both overcoming alcohol abuse and finding true love. And best of all, the chords are surprisingly beginner-friendly! In this article, we’ll take you through the Tennessee Whiskey chords and the solo tab, too! Tennessee Whiskey Chords Are you ready to […]
Fly Me to the Moon Guitar Chords
Frank Sinatra was one of the defining voices of the 20th century. His legacy lives on today, and it’s no wonder that many professional and amateur artists alike enjoy learning and performing covers of his songs. Today’s we’ll be taking a look at the challenging yet beautiful Fly Me to the Moon chord progression! How […]
How to Play D7 Guitar Chord?
The seventh chords of any note make some of the most beautiful sounds that you can hear in music. They range from elegant and jazzy to upbeat and full of fun. The D7 chord, which this article is about, has a regal feel you would expect in a classical song. The D7 is difficult for […]