Guitar Lessons

Choosing a guitar isn’t easy. Over its four hundred year history as an instrument, numerous types of instruments have developed within the guitar family making it difficult to consider all your options when you’re just starting out. Amid all this variety, the nylon stringed acoustic guitar is an important guitar for every beginner to consider. The direct descendant of the first guitars, nylon string guitars today are instruments developed specifically for classical music. Nylon string guitars have a deeper, softer tone than their steel-string cousins whose sound is more bright and sharp. This difference in tonality makes nylon stringed guitars more expressive than other ... Read Full Story

So I’ve been working on these lessons for this DVD for a while now, and finally came up with something that I thought people should know. I think it is a logical progression in the series of Blues Guitar DVDs that I’ve created. Method of Madness? Putting together a DVD can drive me crazy as to what should go in it, what people want to go in it, and what I feel people should be learning next in this series of Blues Guitar DVDs. In this DVD, I decided to teach about Blues Concepts and how I think about playing blues guitar, as well ... Read Full Story

Choosing an acoustic guitar is more difficult than simply walking into a store and picking out a wooden-bodied guitar that fits your budget. There are many varieties of acoustic guitars to choose from, each with its own unique characteristics. However, one of the two dominant varieties that should be considered by every prospective guitarist is the steel-string acoustic guitar . The steel-string acoustic is popular in a number of music genres including country, rock, folk and blues, primarily because of its clearer and louder sound quality. There’s a popular misconception that beginners should avoid the steel-string guitar because its strings are particularly rough on ... Read Full Story

Playing a guitar without vibrato is like eating Mexican food without salsa. Vibrato is one of the most definitive techniques in defining your musical style, your own personal unique sound. No two players have the same vibrato sound. Some play slow and wide while others play narrow and fast, and that’s the beauty behind spending a lot of time learning different vibrato techniques. It’s like eating different salsa’s every time you go to your favorite taco stand. Enough talk about food, lets talk technique. Vibrato is sometimes confused with tremolo. Basically it is just a technique of vibrating the string sharp and flat around ... Read Full Story

Guitar For Dummies Acoustic Guitar Starter Pack with Book and Gig Bag : The Kona Guitar Company, looking to make learning to play guitar easy and hassle-free, has launched an exciting new addition to the For Dummies® line of products. After the great success of the original Guitar For Dummies book, it only made sense to team up with the Kona Guitar Company to produce a complete guitar starter pack for beginners, which includes a customized version of the popular guide. This Guitar Starter Pack includes a deluxe 39 Kona acoustic guitar, gig bag, digital tuner, 3 picks and a custom version of Wiley ... Read Full Story

If you have a passion for music and you have got all the instruments with you such as the guitar or piano but don’t how to initialize then here are certain tips that shall help you in learning your new skill. First of all , you need to have on hand, is a guitar and then hold it on your lap with your left hand holding the neck and the right hand draped over the body of the guitar. We are going to use a six string guitar and play it with the right hand. Each string correspond to a musical note and starts ... Read Full Story

The entrepreneurs in US are provided business grants by both federal and state governments for starting an industry or company. Some of the money is paid as free grants and others as business loans with zero or low interest. The citizens are eligible for the following grants and loans. 1. Grant for Small Business Innovation and Research:- Business houses doing research in the areas of technological advancement are given grants by the federal and state governments. 2. Foundation/Non Profit Grants:- The organizations engaged in social welfare projects are given government grants. Some private foundations also provide financial assistance to social welfare projects. The non ... Read Full Story