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Guitar Chord Chart for Drop D Tuning As you learn to play rock guitar, a guitar chord chart can come in handy. It's pretty easy to find charts of chords in standard tuning, but when you need to know how to play chords in a “Drop D” tuning, it gets a little tougher to find [...]

Music Notation It's Easier Than You Think! “Finally! A music notation page with information that is useable…” A few basics will take the fear out of reading notation for many people. Yes, it can and does get complex at the higher levels but if you're just reading the basics of notation, signs and terms will [...]

One of the things that many people write to ask is “in which order should my past columns be read?” And I have to answer that I don’t really know! When I started writing for Guitar Noise, I was given pretty much free rein about what to write. Most of my topics came, and still [...]

The music at Acoustic Guitar Central, and in our books and magazines, is written in standard notation and tablature. Here's how to read it. Want to print out this guide? A print-quality version is available for free download. In order to view and print it, you will need the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe. STANDARD [...]

Great resource for learning the bass guitar. I learned how to read music and learn notes, scales, technique, etc. very rapidly. The CD is very helpful – but don't expect to use it to listen to the low-pitched bass guitar notes on the tiny little speakers on a laptop computer! I ended up having to [...]

I listen to everything from Classic Rock (The Animals etc) To Nu-Metal,Metal,Death/Black-Metal and even some Hardcore and Industrial. I change genres depending on my mood. One day i'll be listening to Orgy the next it will be the Vines or even Metallica. When someone calls Mudvayne,Slipknot Metal it doesent really bother me, why should it [...]

Guitar Chords Generator Control Bar Tuning: if you leave the guitar in standard tuning 'standard' will be displayed here. You can edit the tuning to 4 semitones up and down from standard. You can save chords with alternative tunings. The tuning preference will not be saved and will return to standard when you return. The [...]

The Beginners Guide To Playing The Guitar – New to guitar? Then here is a great place to start learning how to play guitar. From easy guitar chords, to easy guitar songs. Tuning the guitar Basic Guitar Tuning – In this beginner guitar lesson you will learn the most basic guitar tuning method, tune with [...]