Tapping is the technique Eddie Van Halen made famous. It involves hammering on the fretboard with your 1st or 2nd finger of your picking hand to produce a note then pulling off to notes fingered by your fret hand. The involvement of the picking hand in this fashion is called a tap. It is usually represented by a “T” in tablature.Read More »Fretboard Tapping
Ok. First things first. If you have a pick anywhere NEAR your computer, hide it!Read More »What is fingerstyle?
Sometimes when looking at a piece of music you’ll see some odd chord voicing that have slashes in them. For example a C/G chord, or an A/E. What kind of chords are these and how do you play them?Read More »How do I play chords with slashes?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Here you’ll find Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah” with complete guitar tab as well as a simplified chord/lyric version to strum along to.Read More »“Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley
Difficulty:Easy – Intermediate There’s some interesting things going on in this song as two of the guitars use an alternate tuning. The chords played in this… Read More »“Yellow” by Coldplay
Their song “Testify” is in drop D tuning. In drop D tuning the low E string is tuned down one whole step to D. This… Read More »Testify by Rage Against The Machine
In this lesson, we are going to work with some really simple basic exercises in beginner strumming. It is most important to learn the absolute basics from square one, mainly because you have to know the preliminaries before you can move on to the more advanced and technical strumming patterns.Read More »Easy Strumming Exercise
Here is the most popular pattern in guitar soloing. It’s a combination of the G, E, and D shape minor scale patterns. Here’s the pattern… Read More »Blues Jam Cheat Sheet
Fig. 1: Simple Alternate Picking Exercise
Fig. 2: Alternate Picking Variation
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique, used only by pick users, that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing. If this technique is performed on a single note at a high speed, then it may also be referred to as tremolo picking.Read More »Alternate Picking
