How To Play The E Minor Pentatonic Scale On Guitar
February 4, 2024Although the guitar isn’t tuned to a specific key, it does lend itself to certain keys. And because of the guitar’s unique standard tuning, one of the great keys to play guitar in is E. Because of this, it’s important to be familiar with scales in E. A lot of great songs are written in […]
Drop D Tuning On The Guitar: What It Is And How To Tune
January 3, 2024Drop D tuning is a common alternative tuning for the guitar. Standard tuning, from low to high, is E-A-D-G-B-E. The guitar is tuned that way for a few reasons, but it’s not the only way to tune it. While standard tuning has its advantages for being able to easily play chords and play melodies, sometimes and […]
How To Play The A Minor Pentatonic Scale On Guitar
December 7, 2023Although I encourage beginners to simply learn the minor pentatonic scale shapes on guitar, this method doesn’t work for everybody. Some players like to see where they can play a scale for a given key everywhere on the guitar. Because of this, this lesson will outline everywhere you can play an A minor pentatonic scale […]
How To Get Started Playing The Three String Cigar Box Guitar
November 23, 2023The three string guitar, sometimes also called the cigar box guitar or CBG is a great instrument to add to your guitar collection. However, you can’t just pick up a CBG and starting playing it like you would a standard six string guitar. The tuning is different and, well, there are only three strings. Many […]
What Key Is A Guitar In?
October 31, 2023You’ve probably heard of a “key” as it relates to music and wondered what key a guitar is in. The short answer is that it’s not in a specific key, that’s not really how it works. The longer answer is, like a lot of instruments, the guitar is more suited to certain keys than others. You […]
How To Play An F Chord On Guitar
October 24, 2023If you’re relatively new to guitar and made your way through open guitar chords, you’ve probably tried your hand at barre chords. When first getting started on barre chords, a lot of new players already begin to struggle with the F chord. In this lesson, I’ll tear apart the F chord, as played in the […]
What Are Power Chords
October 3, 2023So you want to find out about power chords? You’re in the right place. In this guitar lesson, I’ll cover what a power chord is, a bit of music theory behind power chords, and how to play them. Basically this article is a one stop shop for all things power chord related. Before I get […]
How To Play Major Scales On Guitar
August 12, 2023In Western music, the humble major scale is pretty much the building block of music. Yes, there are musical modes out there, but they’re better understood through major scales. Major scales form the key of a song, and ultimately, chords are built on degrees of a scale. While there are a ton of different scales […]
How To Play Major Pentatonic Scales On Guitar
June 19, 2023Getting to know your guitar scales is a great step to improvising and writing lead lines. Knowing your scales is also helpful in generally understanding lead lines and riffs from the songs you love. This lesson goes of the major pentatonic scale shapes. As the name would suggest, these are pentatonic scales based on the […]
How To Practice Minor Pentatonic Scales
June 9, 2023So you’ve read my article on the minor pentatonic shapes for guitar. Great, you know them. Now what? In that article I spent about three sentences on tips for practicing the minor pentatonic scale. This article aims to go into a little bit more depth to get you jamming away on minor pentatonics. Now, this […]
