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How to Know When It’s Time to Change Your Guitar Strings
By Joe Armani
So how do you know when it is time to change the strings on your acoustic or electric guitar?
Here’s how it works:
The life of your strings will vary depending on how you treat them. A guitar played 2 hours a week will keep it’s strings longer than a guitar played 2 hours a day. Dirty hands will kill strings quickly, so it’s always a good idea to wash your hands before you pick up your guitar. Sweaty hands will shorten your strings’ life, too, but this can be unavoidable. Heavy hands will wear strings out quicker than light ones. Humidity can cause metal strings to corrode at a quicker rate. Read the rest of this entry »
Guitarists – Don’t Use Your Head, Use Your Neck!
We’re going to use a “G” chord and a G major pentatonic to illustrate how we can use 5 basic chord shapes to move up and down the neck of the guitar.
These 5 basic chord shapes are the open forms (played at the end of the neck near the tuning pegs) of the “G” chord, the “E” chord, the “D” chord, the “C” chord, and the “A” chord. Of course, when we play the chord shapes in different positions, the chord name will no longer be “E”, “D”, “C”, or “A”. In fact, the chord will be a “G” chord every time we play it — although we use the fingerings normally associated with the open “E”, “D”, “C”, and “A” chords.
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At the Beginning — the “G” chord
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We’ll start with the basic open “G” chord. The chord form is: Read the rest of this entry »
Benefits of Online Music Lessons
By Bob Pardue
Can I Learn How to Read Music Online?
As music continues to be a big part of people’s lives, there really is no shortage of musicians and people wanting to learn how to read music. This motivation has certainly been the driving force behind plenty of companies and teachers wanting to make money by teaching people how to read music and music theories.
The problem however comes from the fact that not everyone has enough money to pay for actual lessons or classes and so most people will simply quit on the dream of ever being able to sing or read music. Read the rest of this entry »
Getting the Most Out of Your Wireless Guitar System
You obviously dont want you’re wireless guitar system to crackle, pick up interference or even not work at all. Buying a good qualify system can stop these things to an extent but there are also a few things you can do yourself to boost the performance on a low quality system, or extract even more more performance on a higher quality system. The following technique should be able to be used on all systems and can also work as a rough troubleshooting guide if your system isn’t working at all.
Main causes of poor wireless guitar system performance
1. Objects in the line of sight. The guitar signal can be interrupted by physical objects getting in between the transmitter and the receiver. This tends to be a problem with system at the higher end of the scale since they find it harder to diffract around objects. Read the rest of this entry »
Mac’s Music Sharing Philosophy
We use a Macintosh computer for music sharing. The application we have come to rely on is called Acquisition. It’s a great, user-friendly music sharing program exclusive to the Macintosh platform. It allows you to download and upload concurrently, and provides helpful ratings to ensure that you are sharing with a reliable peer.
Acquisition is highly compatible with ITunes. We have been able to organize and play hours of music for parties by collaborating between Acquisition and ITunes. The combined technology of these two programs is incredible and so easy to use, that even our kids have learned how to search and locate music of their choice. Read the rest of this entry »
Practising Music – What To Do Outside Your Music Lesson
Practice makes perfect. These three words are heard every day and time after time these words are ignored. But why? Music is such a vast subject that for anyone, even the professionals, mastering it is near impossible. With years of work one can be very knowledgeable in specific areas of music but it would take more than a lifetime to fully understand every aspect of an instrument or music theory.
With that in mind hopefully people should start to understand that having a one hour lesson once a week is not even close to enough to gain substantial progress and development on a musical instrument. Read the rest of this entry »
Four Tips To Playing Scales
Playing scales is a good thing for developing technique. I am not saying that one should sit down at the piano and practice scales and exercises for hours to obtain results. That would be so boring but if you look at these points, you will acquire a great technique in just a few weeks.
1. Scales train the fingers so that they do their work evenly and smoothly.
Playing scales is a good thing for developing technique. I am not saying that one should sit down at the piano and practice scales and exercises for hours to obtain results. If you look at these points, you will acquire a great technique in just a few weeks. Scales train the fingers so that they do their work evenly and smoothly. Read the rest of this entry »
Basic Principals Of Practising a Musical Instrument
This article is an attempt to explain the most successful methods of practicing the playing of a musical instrument. Practicing too much or for too long can have the opposite effect to the desired one of becoming a more accomplished musician.
Practicing the playing of musical instrument requires several aspects to be considered.
1. The practical requirements. These are the keys to press on a keyboard, the tonguing of a reed instrument, the finger position on the neck of a stringed instrument or perhaps the lip action of a brass instrument to name but a few of the practical requirements.
2. The music requirements. These are to understand the music and be able to read it at a reasonable speed to suit the music to be played. Interpretation is obviously important too. Read the rest of this entry »