Delay is another word for echo. It happens when a sound bounces off a wall or a mountain, you hear a reflection of the sound a fraction of a second after the original sound was made. Many vocals and guitar solos of the nineteen fifties were characterised by the “echo chamber” effect. Here is a video guitar lesson on delay . . . There are two ways of producing the delay effect by electronics: digital or analog. A digital unit will encode the signal and keep it until it is needed a... Read Full Story

How to change guitar chords is an area of guitar playing that you will be returning to again and again. It’s an area that needs a lot of experimenting, learning from your mistakes and allowing muscle memory to learn the chords in its own time. One approach you could try is to learn a new chord by using it as a central point to go to from all the other chords you know. So if you want to learn the B major chord, get your fingers into the chord position and strum the chord for a while. The... Read Full Story

When you start learning guitar chords you will probably have some chord charts or guitar tabs to show you where to put your fingers. Having a written guide to guitar chords is not enough and you need not limit yourself to charts and tabs when there are plenty of people showing you how to play guitar chords on video sites like YouTube. Listening to someone play the chord and hearing them explain how they go about making the chord shape with their fingers makes a world of difference to how fast... Read Full Story

One way to get a grip on playing bluegrass music on acoustic guitar is to think of yourself as a bass player who also plays chords. Or as a single note player who throws in chords to add some interest. Those two ideas will help you to understand what you are listening to when you are choosing some bluegrass playing to emulate. As your picking technique progresses you should be able to add in some hammer-ons and pull-offs when you see opportunities for them come up naturally. If you are not go... Read Full Story

There are two considerations in deciding where to set your guitar strings. Ease of playing and tone. It is much easier to play a guitar that has a low action. This is fine for beginners but it will probably give you some fret buzz and, as you progress in your guitar playing, you might want to experiment with your guitar setup to try to achieve a variety of tone qualities. A guitar with a high action will yield more sustain and fuller tone. Here is a link to a guitar set up tutorial aimed at ... Read Full Story

Blues guitar music has a distinctive sound. This sound is produced by the addition of an extra note to the pentatonic minor scale. The extra note is a flattened fifth note of the scale. If you are playing in the key of A minor, the extra note - or blue note - is E flat. Why do you need to learn all this stuff? Because if you learn your blues scales and practice then relentlessly you will find that you will have been transformed from an ugly duckling to an ugly blues guitarist who can improvis... Read Full Story

If you want to play guitar with your teeth, you have probably been inspired by watching old videos of Jimi Hendrix. It looks cool and is fairly easy to do. The trouble is that when you first try it, your teeth will most likely hurt. So, begin by bringing the guitar up to your mouth and using your bottom teeth to connect with the guitar string. Play the guitar by moving your lower jaw while keeping the guitar steady. Another way of playing guitar with your teeth is to simply hold your plectru... Read Full Story

Hank Marvin is one of the original guitar heroes. He helped to popularize the Stratocaster and the electric guitar in general, back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, and is still an active and innovative professional guitarist. Hank Marvin made good use of echo and vibrato to achieve a highly individual sound that many guitarists have tried to emulate. One way of copying the Hank Marvin sound is by using the Gemini III, a true-bypass analogue tone-shaper with digital switching that enabl... Read Full Story

This is a very basic tutorial on slide guitar playing. It is a good idea for any guitarist to experiment with slide guitar playing because it reveals the notes between the frets - the notes we don’t usually hear. You can buy a slide from any guitar store or you can make one from a wine bottle, lipstick holder or any metal or glass cylindrical shaped object. The only requirements are that it fits over your pinky and it’s long enough to go across the neck of your guitar. You might ... Read Full Story

This free video helps you to learn the basic open guitar chords: C, D, G, Em and Am. Copyright © 2009 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@guitar-how-to.com so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by TaraganaTechnorati Tags: open guitar chords Read Full Story