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Effective guitar practice depends on using your guitar tuner and metronome for every practice session. It is not good to keep practicing when your guitar is out of tune, just because it’s a bother to take the time to tune it. It is also a drag using the metronome, but if you are not using it, you are not playing the music! Set the metronome on a low speed, and work up to higher speeds as you improve. Another helpful guitar practice tip is to record yourself often. It will show you where you... Read Full Story

Learning how to hold the guitar pick is just as important as learning how to hold the guitar. If you are just starting out as a guitar player, buy about a dozen plectrums of different thicknesses and shapes and sizes, and experiment till you feel comfortable. Copyright © 2012 Guitar How-To . This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal... Read Full Story

The standard you should use when it is time to choose guitar software is how you feel about a particular program. The computer age has given us a whole range of software to be used in conjunction with acoustic or electric guitars. Now you have programs that help you learn how to play the guitar. There are programs that help you write songs and there is software that turns your computer into a guitar amp with a multitude of effects. There are also many computer chord dictionaries. Deciding... Read Full Story

So your bass guitar has fret buzz and you do not know how to fix it. Well, if I were you I would not be letting anybody near my bass guitar who had to go to a website called Guitar How-To for advice. The fact that you are here tells me that you probably should not be trusted to go poking around in a bass guitar with a screwdriver or a soldering iron. On the other hand we can’t go through our musical lives just learning how to play our instruments without also learning about how they work... Read Full Story

There are two elements to a guitar song. The chords and the lyrics. Each of these lyrics has to be inside you so that you can sing the words or play the chords without thinking. There is no trick to it – it is just a matter of knowing your stuff. Let’s start with the guitar chords. One thing that will help you know your guitar chords really well is to learn to play in time. Don’t be happy with just more or less knowing the fingerings for the chords, but work hard at getting your chords... Read Full Story

Photo by itzafineday Fingerstyle guitar lends itself beautifully to playing Celtic music, even if you are not a guitar virtuoso. Before we get too far into “Celtic guitar” let us make it clear that until the nineteen fifties the guitar was not a Celtic musical instrument. What we know as Celtic music is another we have found of expressing our twenty-first century feelings using the scales and techniques of the past. The traditional music of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Wales is the... Read Full Story

Back in the 1960s the Beatles were musical amateurs. They wanted to play rock ‘n roll, but the training that is available to us now was not available to them. Consequently they experimented a lot when they were writing their songs. So they did a lot of unmusicianly things like putting seven or eight chords in every song. Fortunately later generations preferred to learn the basics of blues and rock ‘n roll rather than imitate the Beatles’ songs were written. The Beatles unique way of writing... Read Full Story

There’s many ways to paint a guitar body. There’s quite a few stages to even the simplest method and if you aren’t experienced at woodworking and spraypainting you’ll be on a steep learning curve. Find an old cheap guitar to work on for your first attempt and resign yourself to not getting a professional looking result the first time. Visit Guitar Reranch to get the details on preparation, sanding, spraying, removing wiring, etc. Even if you don’t buy their products you should make use of... Read Full Story

If you are going to learn how to play electric guitar , you should know about the basic techniques that you will be learning. Some of these guitar techniques have been used for hundreds of years but others were developed by electric guitar players in jazz, country and rock styles. To learn more about these electric guitar techniques, do a search on YouTube for video clips of guitar players putting what they have learnt into action. For an electric guitar player the first technique to learn... Read Full Story

The idea of this article on making your own electric guitar is to give you a real, practical idea of the magnitude of the job and the skills, tools and raw materials needed to make your own electric guitar. The original electric guitar was a railway sleeper with strings. The designer, Les Paul, finally marketed his invention with a guitar shape because he felt that was what people expected of an electric guitar, not because any particular shape was really necessary to make music. One thing... Read Full Story