Hi-Gain
Hi-Gain (descended from the more generic electric guitar amplification term high-gain) is the sound most used in heavy metal. High gain in normal electric guitar… Read More »Hi-Gain
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Fuzz
Fuzz is intended to recreate the classic 1960’s tone of an overdriven tube amp combined with torn speaker cones. Old school guitar players (like Link… Read More »Fuzz
Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi
Difficulty: Easy – Intermediate The song is meant to be played on a 12-string, but you can still play it on your standard acoustic. Also note that… Read More »Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi
E Shape Barre Chord
Create a barre with your first finger on any fret. Pretend your finger is the nut of the guitar. Now use your remaining 3 fingers to… Read More »E Shape Barre Chord
Distortion
Distortion is an important part of an electric guitar’s sound in many genres, particularly for rock, hard rock, and metal. A distortion pedal takes a normal electric guitar signal and distorts the signal’s waveform by “clipping” the signal.Read More »Distortion
What is phrasing?
In music, phrasing is the grouping of the notes of a musical line into distinct phrases. This “Phrasing” video talks about how playing leads and melodies (or phrases) is similar to speech patterns.
The Mel Bay F Chord
Question:
In Mel Bays Chord encyclopedia he shows that instead of 5 major chords their are 6 the sixth one being F. xx3211. am i just not looking right cause mel bay and this site have total differences of opinion.
Also some of his minor chords are different like on the site cm is written x3101x and mel bay has it written xx5543. Gm is written xx5333 in mel bays book
They also have fm as one of the basic minor chords written xx3111 and this site does not list an Fm at all.
What am i missing?Read More »The Mel Bay F Chord
Barre Chords
You cannot play every chord in the guitar’s open position.
What if you wanted to play an F or B chord? How about an F# or Gb chord for that matter? You can’t do it without using a barred chord. There are 12 possible major chords and without barre chords you can only play 5 of them. It’s the same thing with minor chords. A barre chord is where we take a basic chord pattern and “move” it up the neck of the guitar to create different chords.
What is chord phrasing?
Chord phrasing is art of taking a chord progression and turning it into a means of personal expression. Chord phrasing allows you total freedom during the performance of a song to do anything you can imagine with the song’s chord structure. In other words, when playing rhythm guitar you don’t have to just play the chords that go along with the progression. Playing just the chords can, and will get boring rather quickly.Read More »What is chord phrasing?
Trills
A trill is performed by quickly hammering on and pulling off two notes. It’s usually represented by a “tr” and a squiggle line like seen… Read More »Trills