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Nov
11

Guitar Tuning Tips

Posted by Darren

Everyone who plays a guitar, even those who play one occasionally know the importance of keeping it in tune. As with various other kinds of string instruments, a guitar which is not in tune will not produce the desired sound. Tuning is an essential aspect of guitar playing for anyone who is even the least bit serious about playing one.

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Aug
11

How to Pick a Guitar Properly

Posted by Darren

Learning how to pick a guitar properly is just as important as learning how to play. Sounds from a guitar are made by picking the strings of a guitar. Sometimes picking is called “plucking”, but you shouldn’t get confused if that term is used, they are all essentially about the same thing. Different ways exist through which you can pick a guitar and they are:

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Jul
28

What Guitar Tablature is all about

Posted by Darren

Why is learning about guitar tablature necessary and how exactly does it helps you if you want to learn how to play the guitar? Learning guitar tablature is highly essential in the mastery of how to play the guitar for a large number of reasons. The best part of guitar tablature is that it is not difficult as soon as you have learned the basics of how to do it. It’s a very simple thing for any person to learn how to read guitar tabs properly as long as they go about it the right way. Even children are known to have been successful at the mastery of this art at a very young age.

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May
11

Learning to Replace a Guitar String

Posted by Darren

Anyone who has a guitar should learn that understanding how to replace a guitar string is one of the most essential guitar tricks that they have to learn. Guitar owners will experience a lot of cases where their guitar strings break or become worn and old and thus require replacement in order to produce better sound. Learning how to replace guitar strings is very essential because when the time comes for it to be done; you really don’t want to find yourself worrying about not knowing how to do it.

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Apr
14

Why Using Guitar Fingering Chart Helps

Posted by Darren

Is the guitar an instrument which you have always wanted to learn how to play? Do you know how to read music properly or play other musical instruments but fall short when it comes to playing the guitar? Perhaps you wonder at what the different chords are and the strings that you need to pick in order to play a particular tone. You should rejoice in the fact that you’re not the only one in this dilemma, a lot of new guitar players often find themselves in this situation and the beauty of it all is that a lot of resources are available to help you get past this. One of these many essential resources which will make your guitar playing days is the guitar-fingering chart.

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Mar
28

Understanding the Tuning of a Guitar

Posted by Darren

To be known as a guitar player, it is necessary for you to know the tuning process of the instrument, where all the tuning pegs are turned in such a way that every string strums at the right note or pitch. There are 3 primary ways in which a guitar can be tuned: reference tuning, relative tuning and electronic tuning. Irrespective of the fact that the guitar is electric or acoustic or whether the strings are made of nylon or steel, these processes hold true for all. While the guitar can be tuned to a varied set of tunes, blues players and finger stylists prefer using altered tunings. Be that as it may, there is a standard guitar tuning method, which should be the starting point for every student learning to play the guitar. This standard tuning method is low to high - E, A, D, G, B and E. The high E is from a piano, which is the E directly above middle C. tuning of the guitar starts downward from this note.
Reference tuning is all about tuning your guitar holding another source as standard. This could be a pitch pipe, a piano or another guitar. First the pitch of the reference instrument is played and then a similar pitch, mostly an open string is played on the guitar to be tuned. Then the tuning pegs can be turned left or right as needed, which makes the pitch go up or down, till both the pitches of the guitar to be tuned and the reference instrument, match completely. This is the most difficult part of this method but can be grasped if someone knowledgeable about the process, shows you a couple of times how to do it.
Relative tuning is the process by which the guitar is tuned on its own. So, when the guitar is being played solo, the notes and chords sound perfectly right, but when compared to another instrument, which is tuned differently, it will sound either too high or too low.
For this, you have to play the A string open and the low E at the fifth fret. Match the tones of these two pitches, which should be exactly the same. Now you have to move the tuning key for the string to sound flat or sharp as is deemed necessary, till both the strings sound the same, at the same pitch. You could do this process for the entire width of the guitar, with the exception of B string. To tune the second or B string, you need to play the third or G string at the fourth fret. Then return to the fifth fret to tune the high E string. Of all the methods of guitar tuning, the electronic tuning method is perhaps the easiest for even a beginner guitarist to learn. The correct pitches are located and set by an electronic tuner. You could buy an electronic tuner from any music store and it costs between $20 and $35. Expensive ones are better in the sense that they are more accurate and are easier to use. It is better to buy the best model that you can afford as it lasts longer and good in the long run. Though the basic principles are the same for all models, you might find that the operating system for each model may vary from one another.

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