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Fingerpicking, or what is now known as “finger style guitar” (and boy, we have to come up with alternative names these days for everything in order to make them more marketable, don’t we?)(get it? “alternative” is a pun, you see, because we couldn’t sell music to people unless we gave it a genre title that [...]

lesson summary Lesson 9 of 19 in our Basic Guitar Series: Barre Chords Steve gives an in depth explanation of what a barre chord is. He explains the practical purposes of barre chords and how to play them. Steve also covers how power chords relate to barre chords. Chapter 1: (0:56) Introduction Welcome back for [...]

So…you’ve just bought your first guitar, borrowed one from a friend or received one as a gift (and if that’s the case, please introduce me to this person…). Now what do you do? Well, if you haven’t got a clue at all, perhaps we can help you. Guitar Noise welcomes you to the first of [...]

Lest you think that only Weird Al Yankovich makes a living from taking someone else’s melody and writing new lyrics to it, let me offer you more examples from history: Love Me Tender, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, The Star Spangled Banner, and today’s lesson, What Child Is This, which comes to us by way [...]

Playing the same old chords on every song can get pretty tiring and can leave a music career stale in a heartbeat. If you play G – C – D on every song without trying to even embellish it a little bit with interesting chordal work the audience will probably get bored with your guitar [...]

One of the first things you may do when attempting to learn the guitar is to attempt to learn the guitar chords and the way it all works. I remember when I first started learning guitar the hardest thing was trying to learn the guitar chords. So what are the easy to learn guitar chords? [...]

Okay, this week we take a little break from chord theory (kindasorta) and get into some song analysis, cleverly disguised as “Songs For Beginners.” We’ll take the easiest song I know and learn to play it. Not only is it a song most of you know – it’s also probably a song most of you [...]

You are all probably aware (especially since I tend to say things over and over (and over) again) that my first guitar was a twelve-string guitar – specifically an Ibanez, which I re-strung to play left-handed. I didn’t know a thing about why it had twelve strings; I just wanted something that was different than [...]

Tabs tell you how a song is played in guitar. Reading tabs is easy, you won't have to go through this lesson twice. Guitars usually have six strings (there are 7 string and 12 string guitars also, we'll ignore them now). The first thing you have to know is the name of the six strings. [...]

We are going to some minor chords now (Guitar playing). Want to begin with the minor chords? Minor chords have a little bit of a sad tone to it, rather than (Guitar playing). The major chords would sound happy. So, depending on what kind of song you want to play or write (Guitar playing). You [...]