Palm muting

by admin Posted on August 27, 2010

A very important guitar technique, palm muting is the factor that makes distorted sounds heavy or adds a percussive effect to each notes that you play. From the heavy chugging sounds to the percussive single notes, you should definitely include this in your arsenal. It is not actually muting but muffing. So if you want to learn how to do this technique, you have come to the right place. This post is filled with all the necessary information that you need to know about palm muting and could be the key for you to learn it. You have nothing to worry about because this post is compiled and researched; gathering information on secure and reliable sources that only gives genuine info over the subject. By the moment you are done reading this, we could be sure that you would know how to do this. So sit back, relax and read further.

How do you palm muting? It is simple. First hold the pick as if you are going to pick the strings already. Now, move your hand slightly to the bridge and slightly touch the strings, all of it with the right sand of your hand, just enough not to mute it but muffle it. Then strum or pick. Effective with distorted sounds of metal and rock.

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Guitar Accessories that you could use

by admin Posted on August 26, 2010

I have compiled the best accessories for guitars that you could find helpful. These are stuff that you could buy at almost any guitar store.

  1. String winder – useful for winding the tuning pegs to loosen or tighten the strings. It makes winding quicker compared to winding it by hand.
  2. Guitar pick – strongly affects the tone of the guitar. available in three basic gauges, thin, medium and heavy which you could use depending on your preference. Other manufacturers make picks from many different materials, gives out a unique feel and there is no particular one that is right for everyone.
  3. Electronic tuner – an inexpensive electronic device that you could use to tune a guitar or bass guitar easily.
  4. Metronome – an electronic device that lets you play in a constant and uniform time or time signature. This is perfect for beginners so that they would develop a good sense of timing.
  5. Spare parts
  6. Strings – comes in bronze, steel and nylon. For electric guitars, we use steel strings. It also has different gauges to fit your playing style. the thicker the string, the heavier the sound. For easy bends, use light gauges.
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Frustration

by admin Posted on August 20, 2010

Do you feel like you are frustrated with yourself, musically? Are you not satisfied with your current skill? Do you look at other musicians with envy because you think that they are better than you? These are all signs of musical frustration and these are all normal. Many musical masters are also frustrated with themselves for a while but ended up becoming part of the pages of musical history. It is normal for a guitar player to go through this scenario but it is not good however to dwell on it because it might affect your entire emotion and make you quit playing the guitar.

So to conquer this, you must have the following attitude towards your musical skill:

  1. Confidence – everybody starts from scratch. Some are just quicker in terms of learning. Or maybe you just aren’t practicing enough. Be confident in what you have and what you do, and everything shall follow.
  2. Patience – you cannot just jump over the ledge and become a guitar master overnight. Be patient, practice according to the right methods of doing it and follow the right path. Soon you shall reap the rewards of your hard work. It’s okay to envy better guitar players, matter of fact, they themselves went through the same situation, but use it to fuel your passion, not to discourage you.
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Barre chords

by admin Posted on August 17, 2010

Chords are the basic stuff that you should learn. You could start with the major chords, then the minor chords, then the 7th, the major 7th, the minor 7th and so on and so forth. Barre chords are also a different thing. It’s a chord shape, a moveable chord shape that you could use for many different chords just by moving it up the fretboard. How to do a barre chord? First, you should know that there are two types of barre chords that you could use with major chords. One is the E Type Barre Chord and the other is A Type Barre Chord. I call them like that because they are based on that chord shape or the open chord. The E type starts with an open chord E then if you move it up one fret, it would be an E Type F Barre chord, and so on and so forth.

The A Type barre chord starts with the open chord A. the A triad. And then if you move it one fret up, that would be A Type Bb barre chord. Move it up one more fret again and that would be A Type B Barre Chord. The E type and the A type are made up words that I came up with.

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Lead Guitar Introduction

by admin Posted on August 13, 2010

This is perhaps the reason why almost all of the guitar players wanted to learn electric guitar to whip out a back – lashing, mind – shattering, eye – bursting, ridiculously awesome guitar solo and you could see and hear the crowd yell at you in almighty godly approval and worship and you raise your hand to the crowd, beaming the horn sign to each and every one of them. Now, you have to wake up!

Your ecstatic dream of becoming a full – fledged guitar god is possible but without making the first step, it’s like Santa Claus climbing down your chimney whole; impossible.

The best thing that you should is to start learning the basics of lead guitar playing and that is no other than starting with the lead guitar techniques. Here is the list of lead guitar techniques that you could do:

  1. Bend – bending the string to reach a certain note.
  2. Slide – sliding your way up to the next note gives you smooth transition between notes.
  3. Hammer on – create slurs by picking the first note and hammering the next higher note.
  4. Pull off – the reverse of a hammer on.

There are lots more techniques for lead guitar playing that you could learn but these techniques are where you should start.

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ACTION

by admin Posted on August 10, 2010

You might receive a guitar as a present for Christmas and you never dared touch it because you don’t know what to do with it. That’s fine, because sooner or later you would go and open it. It has this mystic power calling you to grab it and unwrap it. I’m just kidding. You need to pick up that guitar and start learning. Maybe some of you don’t like to pick that guitar anymore because the strings are too hard for you to press down or maybe it’s just too easy to press it down and you can’t play comfortably with it. The reason contributing to this factor is the string height or action. The distance between the fretboard and your strings. There is no law that states that there is a right action setting on the guitar. It depends on the player’s preference. Like for example, if you want to play metal – fast on an Ibanez JEM, try low action. Adjust the truss rod to lower the distance between the strings and the fretboard. But if you like playing the blues like SRV, High Action is the right thing for you. For me, I want it balanced, not to soft and not too hard.

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