At our church we are having two children play Silent Night on their guitar and cello as pre-service music on Dec 18. Both are first year beginning students. I wrote a very simple arrangement for their use. The guitar includes both tab and sheet music. I am offering it for free to anyone interested. You [...]
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Guitar Level: Intermediate Most beginning guitarists start playing solos by memorizing a few pentatonic scale patterns and using them over a chord progression. This is actually a really nice place to start but when playing solos over a chord progression; it is helpful to know which notes to dwell on; to resolve to, and [...]
Ten Tips for Beginning Guitarists
Posted: August 26, 2011 in TheoryTags: Chord progression, Fingerboard, Guitar, Time signature
Look at the sheet music, not your hands or the fret board. Watch your tempo. If you are playing a song at 60 bpm in 4/4 time, this means that each beat gets 1 second. So don’t strum your chord four times real fast and then find yourself waiting for the measure to end. At [...]
Why Your Guitarist Needs to Know How to Read Music
Posted: August 9, 2011 in Praise BandTags: Guitar
I’ve heard the arguments before; “Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and David Gilmore don’t know how to read music, why should I have to?” First of all, I don’t know if that statement is true but I will say this, I’ve seen some of these guys play before, I’ve studied some of their music, and I’ve [...]
The nine chords have a real funky sound when strummed with a quick up/down motion. You can memorize all the 9 chords by just knowing one finger pattern because they are almost always used in barred positions. The formula for the nine chord is 1-3-5-b7-9. Here are the finger patterns using the root at the [...]
Guitar Friendly Keys In a lot of church bands, the pianist/keyboard player picks out the music for the band. Most digital web-based music suppliers offer their arrangements in a variety of keys. The best way to select the right key for your band is to base the choice on your vocal abilities, but sometimes taking [...]
The Major 7 Chord Guitar Level: Beginner The major seven chord is one of my favorite sounding chords. It’s one of the few chords that I can actually identify as I hear them. They are jazzy, bright and jubilant, and clean sounding . The major 7 chord is built by adding a 7, to a [...]
The “Tap Tempo” Button
Posted: October 29, 2010 in Other GearTags: Drum machine, Guitar, Metronome, Tempo
Guitar Level: Beginner Most new digital metronomes, drum machines, and time-related effect pedals now come with a button called the “tap tempo” button. This is a pretty handy feature. Say you want to learn a particular song and you have the lead sheets, but you are wondering what tempo to play it at – if [...]
Guitar Level: Beginner Listed in the table below is the key of A major with most of the popular guitar chords for this key. The Key of A I II III IV V VI VII VIII A B C# D E F# G# A Typical Chords A Bm C#m D E F#m G#mflat5 [...]
