This one is a very basic, very quick little lesson – probably relevant only for the real beginners out there, but understanding the guitar root notes for each chord you play is quite important. In general, the root note is going to be the lowest note in your chord, in terms of pitch. Definitely this…
One of the most common questions that beginners ask me is “How to use a guitar tuner?” So I thought I would make a quick lesson here on how to use a digital guitar tuner to tune your guitar. Tuning your guitar is incredibly important. If the guitar isn’t in tune, you’re not going to…
Today’s guitar lesson is on the art of strumming, specifically, blues guitar strumming. As you’ll see, I initially started this strumming lesson using G C and D chords. Which of course works fine, and is highly relevant for teaching the strum pattern, however then I realized just how much this strumming pattern is used in…
You don’t see too many people using guitar capo’s – in fact I know some guitar players jokingly call them ‘lady fingers’ – but the fact is you can get some really cool and unique sounds out of your guitar, completely different from what you normally hear, simply by knowing how to use a guitar…
One of the questions I’ve been asked now and again is ‘What chords sound good together?‘ Well, there are a couple of ways for me to answer that question I suppose. I could show you specifically, and I could teach you the reasons why chords sound good together so you can figure that out on…
