Guitar Lessons - A Great Way To Hold The Guitar Pick Or Plectrum
0 comments Posted by Kay Stanford Jr Kastum at 11:35 AMMike here from KillerGuitarTips.com
Here's a great tip for beginners learning to play the electric guitar. Most guitar playing is done using a pick or plectrum to strum the strings. If you don't hold the pick or guitar plectrum correctly you will find it a lot harder to progress so here's how you do it.
A very effective way to hold the pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to hold it with only a very small amount of the pick protruding. When you strum the strings you will need to angle the pick allowing ir to glide across the strings rather than dig in. Try to use your wrist rather than you elbow to strum as you'll find it much easier and have more control.
Practice this by strumming one easy chord at a time until is sounds melodic and each string rings out evenly.
As I mention in most of these tips and tricks a picture is worth a thousand words and in my Audio/Video program being released shortly you will get full audio/video tuition so you will be able to see and hear exactly what is being shown to you and you will be able to play it back to yourself over and over again.
I always tend to try to give you more than one great tip each week in this series of articles... This is no exception so here's goes with your second tip.
This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.
So, as an alternative to strumming we will now try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.
First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let's use G, D, C, D.
Holding down a G major chord follow tis picking order: Play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd followed by the 2nd string and then pick the 3rd again.
Now to cover one bar play the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 2nd strings. Follow the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering the bass note for D os the 4th string and for C it is on the 5th string.
Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).
For all you guys that are relative beginners it may sound a little confusing. Don't worry! My full home study DVD course will cover everything you need to know in a step by step chronological order bringing your guitar playing on as fast as possible. There you go for now, take care
Until next week. Mike
Here's a great tip for beginners learning to play the electric guitar. Most guitar playing is done using a pick or plectrum to strum the strings. If you don't hold the pick or guitar plectrum correctly you will find it a lot harder to progress so here's how you do it.
A very effective way to hold the pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to hold it with only a very small amount of the pick protruding. When you strum the strings you will need to angle the pick allowing ir to glide across the strings rather than dig in. Try to use your wrist rather than you elbow to strum as you'll find it much easier and have more control.
Practice this by strumming one easy chord at a time until is sounds melodic and each string rings out evenly.
As I mention in most of these tips and tricks a picture is worth a thousand words and in my Audio/Video program being released shortly you will get full audio/video tuition so you will be able to see and hear exactly what is being shown to you and you will be able to play it back to yourself over and over again.
I always tend to try to give you more than one great tip each week in this series of articles... This is no exception so here's goes with your second tip.
This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.
So, as an alternative to strumming we will now try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.
First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let's use G, D, C, D.
Holding down a G major chord follow tis picking order: Play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd followed by the 2nd string and then pick the 3rd again.
Now to cover one bar play the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 2nd strings. Follow the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering the bass note for D os the 4th string and for C it is on the 5th string.
Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).
For all you guys that are relative beginners it may sound a little confusing. Don't worry! My full home study DVD course will cover everything you need to know in a step by step chronological order bringing your guitar playing on as fast as possible. There you go for now, take care
Until next week. Mike
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About The Author: Mike Jones is a Professional Guitar Teacher. Offering Guitar Lessons created to getting the beginner through to an great player in the shortest possible time, using unique speed learning techniques developed over twenty years of teaching and playing guitar as a professional. To get more information about Mike's teaching methods and receive FREE tips and tricks each week visit his website at: Learn Guitar Fast
The act of learning to play guitar is without a doubt quite fun, and believe it or not most people at one point have wanted to learn to give it a try. There are many times that you've seen the lead singer in a band begin to play, and you wonder how awesome it would be if you could do the same thing. But there are many people that have no idea what a guitar chord is, and there is no shame if you happen to be among them.
Instead of buying a guitar and hoping that it will just come to you, it's best to seek out a method that allows you to learn guitar through chords and chord progression. All music is based on chords; once you learn how they are played you can start to understand how music is made. Even if you have never taken a lesson you can still learn finger placement and how to strum so you can get the basics under your belt.
Everybody starts with the fundamentals when it comes to learning guitar chords. Even your favorite guitar player, although some are self-taught you can still trace their musical start to guitar chords. When you learn the major chords that most of music uses for songs you can begin to build a base of knowledge.
The majority of people will mistakenly believe that learning the guitar is very hard. Yes, it is quite a challenge, but hard? Absolutely not! Get rid of this preconceived notion and you'll be well on your way! Find a book that contains basic guitar chords and you'll be well on your way to wherever it is you want to be.
There is a fair amount of practice involved and devoting just a half hour each day to playing will improve your overall thirst for learning more. Remember to start with basic chords so you can understand how music is played. Since learning new chords helps build upon your hand flexing you will find that you can play chords you thought were reserved for professionals.
Once you learn the proper finger placement and which strings to strum you will be amazed at how fun and easy learning can be. Even if you have been challenged in musical talent department you can still learn how to play guitar chords. The root of every song comes from a guitar chord.
There is such a thing as a common chord, and such are the chords that everyone will learn. If you learn the common chords, then you can learn the major chords which will help you to learn many other types of music. You can combine simple and major chords to make some beautiful music!
It's also fun to learn with a friend because you can help encourage each other as you learn to play. There are several ways to learn, you can hire a teacher, you can teach yourself or you can take a music class with other students. Its best to have a teacher that shows you what a chord looks like and which strings to play. Often times we get frustrated because we feel we are not learning as fast as we would like. You cannot rush musical development, take your time and enjoy the process.
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Instead of buying a guitar and hoping that it will just come to you, it's best to seek out a method that allows you to learn guitar through chords and chord progression. All music is based on chords; once you learn how they are played you can start to understand how music is made. Even if you have never taken a lesson you can still learn finger placement and how to strum so you can get the basics under your belt.
Everybody starts with the fundamentals when it comes to learning guitar chords. Even your favorite guitar player, although some are self-taught you can still trace their musical start to guitar chords. When you learn the major chords that most of music uses for songs you can begin to build a base of knowledge.
The majority of people will mistakenly believe that learning the guitar is very hard. Yes, it is quite a challenge, but hard? Absolutely not! Get rid of this preconceived notion and you'll be well on your way! Find a book that contains basic guitar chords and you'll be well on your way to wherever it is you want to be.
There is a fair amount of practice involved and devoting just a half hour each day to playing will improve your overall thirst for learning more. Remember to start with basic chords so you can understand how music is played. Since learning new chords helps build upon your hand flexing you will find that you can play chords you thought were reserved for professionals.
Once you learn the proper finger placement and which strings to strum you will be amazed at how fun and easy learning can be. Even if you have been challenged in musical talent department you can still learn how to play guitar chords. The root of every song comes from a guitar chord.
There is such a thing as a common chord, and such are the chords that everyone will learn. If you learn the common chords, then you can learn the major chords which will help you to learn many other types of music. You can combine simple and major chords to make some beautiful music!
It's also fun to learn with a friend because you can help encourage each other as you learn to play. There are several ways to learn, you can hire a teacher, you can teach yourself or you can take a music class with other students. Its best to have a teacher that shows you what a chord looks like and which strings to play. Often times we get frustrated because we feel we are not learning as fast as we would like. You cannot rush musical development, take your time and enjoy the process.
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?Harmonics for Lead Guitar - Natural & Artificial
0 comments Posted by Kay Stanford Jr Kastum at 2:25 PMNatural Harmonic
The easiest harmonics to produce are probably "Natural Harmonics. The technique used is to play with an open string. You would pluck the string with the right hand with your pick as usual, and at the same time mildly touch your left finger to the string at the proper point and then remove it immediately. Your left finger forces the string to stay still in that point, hence creating a node, while the rest of it vibrates. The clarity the harmonic relies upon how quickly you remove your finger. The most important thing about "Natural harmonics" is that where you place your left finger .This is so because it has to match the right placement of the node of the harmonic series you desire to produce.
In most cases you need to place your finger above the fret, not the gap in between them. You can acquire all the "harmonic" effortlessly with a little practice except the 9th fret that is somewhat difficult to get. The 12th fret is simplest and best lace to begin.
Artificial Harmonic
"Natural harmonics" being produced on open strings have limited notes which we can easily create. While "Artificial harmonics" include one more step and give a lot more openings, although they are much difficult to play. However, the principle is simple - we have just to shorten the string by fretting it somewhere. For instance a 2nd harmonic although still consisting of 2 equal notes split in the middle would sound higher because we have shortened the string by fretting it.
It also signifies that we have to move the point that we produce the node up by half the distance we have moved up the fret board (so that we are still hitting the exact center of the part of the string that is free to move). Since we work out the positioning of the nodes as a division of the part of the string that is able to resonate, all of the nodes will be closer at hand, and will act on the string slightly. To actually play the "harmonic", since your left hand is busy in fretting the string, you must place a finger from your right hand on the appropriate point, and use some other finger on the same hand to really pull the string - this is not easy - pretty hard to perform but with practice you can meet the task.
To create "artificial harmonics", implement the exact same rules , simply remember that you have to adjust for the amount you have moved up the neck.Entire complex melodies can be played by practicing artificial harmonics , but if you are moving your fret hand up the string even to play successive notes, you also require to change the place to match the "harmonic "you are producing.
Both the techniques mentioned above are equally at home on a classical or electric guitar.
The easiest harmonics to produce are probably "Natural Harmonics. The technique used is to play with an open string. You would pluck the string with the right hand with your pick as usual, and at the same time mildly touch your left finger to the string at the proper point and then remove it immediately. Your left finger forces the string to stay still in that point, hence creating a node, while the rest of it vibrates. The clarity the harmonic relies upon how quickly you remove your finger. The most important thing about "Natural harmonics" is that where you place your left finger .This is so because it has to match the right placement of the node of the harmonic series you desire to produce.
In most cases you need to place your finger above the fret, not the gap in between them. You can acquire all the "harmonic" effortlessly with a little practice except the 9th fret that is somewhat difficult to get. The 12th fret is simplest and best lace to begin.
Artificial Harmonic
"Natural harmonics" being produced on open strings have limited notes which we can easily create. While "Artificial harmonics" include one more step and give a lot more openings, although they are much difficult to play. However, the principle is simple - we have just to shorten the string by fretting it somewhere. For instance a 2nd harmonic although still consisting of 2 equal notes split in the middle would sound higher because we have shortened the string by fretting it.
It also signifies that we have to move the point that we produce the node up by half the distance we have moved up the fret board (so that we are still hitting the exact center of the part of the string that is free to move). Since we work out the positioning of the nodes as a division of the part of the string that is able to resonate, all of the nodes will be closer at hand, and will act on the string slightly. To actually play the "harmonic", since your left hand is busy in fretting the string, you must place a finger from your right hand on the appropriate point, and use some other finger on the same hand to really pull the string - this is not easy - pretty hard to perform but with practice you can meet the task.
To create "artificial harmonics", implement the exact same rules , simply remember that you have to adjust for the amount you have moved up the neck.Entire complex melodies can be played by practicing artificial harmonics , but if you are moving your fret hand up the string even to play successive notes, you also require to change the place to match the "harmonic "you are producing.
Both the techniques mentioned above are equally at home on a classical or electric guitar.
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Guitar Lesson For Relative Beginners - A Cool Little Chord Change For You To Play
0 comments Posted by Kay Stanford Jr Kastum at 2:07 PMIt's Mike again from KillerGuitarTips.com
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
This week's tip is a nice little chord change that crops up in many songs and is really effective but it does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If not don't worry as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.
A great piece of advice is to keep all these tips for future reference. As you will be building an archive up over time and can be referred back to and pull out from your bag of tricks.
Ok, let's have a go:
We'll start by playing an 'A Major' chord in the open position, using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd finger play one bar all downstrokes and on the beat.
Next lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (this chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Next using your 4th finger hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece), play one bar (Chord is called Asus4) and finish off by playing one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Here's another cool little trick i would like to give you before i sign off for this week. It's a great trick creating cool sounding chords easily by using all the open strings within the chords.
Ok follow me... We are going to play an A major (A) chord with a difference... The fingerings are: 4th string 7th fret with your 3rd finger....3rd string 6th fret 2nd finger and 2nd string 5th fret 1st finger and 1st string is played open this chord is an A major (A). OK now strum one bar....
Now you need to move the whole chord shape down the neck two frets keeping the 1st string open. This is a G6 chord. Play one bar.
Now we need to play a Dsus2 chord. Here are the fingerings... 4th string open... 3rd string 2nd fret first finger... 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, now play one bar.
To finish off we now play an A Major chord in the open position... 5th string open... 4th,3rd and 2nd string are played at the second fret with fingers 1,2,3 and the 1st string is ...you guessed it open.
Play one or two bars of each chord over and over for a killer chord progression that sounds great on its own, it's great to solo over and fantastic for writing your own songs...
Until next time, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
This week's tip is a nice little chord change that crops up in many songs and is really effective but it does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If not don't worry as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.
A great piece of advice is to keep all these tips for future reference. As you will be building an archive up over time and can be referred back to and pull out from your bag of tricks.
Ok, let's have a go:
We'll start by playing an 'A Major' chord in the open position, using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd finger play one bar all downstrokes and on the beat.
Next lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (this chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Next using your 4th finger hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece), play one bar (Chord is called Asus4) and finish off by playing one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Here's another cool little trick i would like to give you before i sign off for this week. It's a great trick creating cool sounding chords easily by using all the open strings within the chords.
Ok follow me... We are going to play an A major (A) chord with a difference... The fingerings are: 4th string 7th fret with your 3rd finger....3rd string 6th fret 2nd finger and 2nd string 5th fret 1st finger and 1st string is played open this chord is an A major (A). OK now strum one bar....
Now you need to move the whole chord shape down the neck two frets keeping the 1st string open. This is a G6 chord. Play one bar.
Now we need to play a Dsus2 chord. Here are the fingerings... 4th string open... 3rd string 2nd fret first finger... 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, now play one bar.
To finish off we now play an A Major chord in the open position... 5th string open... 4th,3rd and 2nd string are played at the second fret with fingers 1,2,3 and the 1st string is ...you guessed it open.
Play one or two bars of each chord over and over for a killer chord progression that sounds great on its own, it's great to solo over and fantastic for writing your own songs...
Until next time, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike
About the Author:
About The Author: Mike Jones is a Professional Guitar Tutor. Offering Guitar Lessons created to getting the beginner through to a great player in the shortest possible time, using unique speed learning techniques developed over 20 years of teaching and playing guitar as a professional. To find out more about Mike's teaching methods and receive FREE tips and tricks each week visit his webpage at: Guitar Lessons