Manic Guitar

Jamorama Review

admin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:32:45 +0000

Jamorama review verdict: Leading guitar course aimed at beginner to intermediate players. (more…)

Introductory Blues Guitar Lesson: The Basics of Blues Guitar

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:03:28 +0000

This lesson is designed to give a basic introduction to blues guitar. I am assuming you have a beginner level of experience on guitar, including a few chords, an ability to read tab and you are comfortable playing some single note material. The lesson is broken down into the basics of blues rhythm guitar and blues lead guitar.

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Nuance is King!!

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:09:41 +0000

So, your pulling off your sequences at semi-quavers at 140bpm (alternate picked), and that’s slow next to your slurring. Not bad. You’ve memorized entire songs of lead guitar note for note (that was satch for me in the old days). Now its time for the real stuff. NUANCE IS KING!!! (more…)

Throw Away the Tab and Figure it Out by Ear

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:06:27 +0000

Ok, well maybe don’t actually throw it out, but you know what I mean. Tab can be great to learn a new song. Especially if you want to fast track the process. But if you want to learn your material in a way that will accelerate your development as a player the most, you need to be sitting down with the audio and figuring it out.

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Don’t Learn it, Make it Up

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:04:10 +0000

Learning songs when your learning the guitar is very important, but something I think is far more important as you progress a bit is to start to make it all up yourself.

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Listen Back to Yourself and Improvise over Backings

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:51 +0000

Something I think is very important as you learn guitar is to regularly record you playing and listen back yourself. Additionally, while learning to improvise it is of great benefit to practice this improvisation over a backing track, in order to learn how your improv sounds in the context of the underlying chords.

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Rhythm Guitar is All About the Right Hand

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:58:26 +0000

So you’re getting fluent with your chords. You have your open chords down pat, a good range of bar chords, and power chords are pretty simple now days. The way to really make your rhythm guitar come to life is to start focusing on your right hand (or you’re left if you’re a lefty).

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