Learn Electric Guitar

While it’s certainly possible to tune your guitar by ear, most guitarists will find having an electronic tuner to be convenient and helpful.  Compared to tuning by ear, using an electronic tuner is a much simpler process.  It won’t do anything to develop your ear, so you should still learn to tune without one, but [...]

Procrastination is the biggest enemy of many beginner guitarists.  Typically, after someone has bought their first electric guitar and had their first few lessons, they will lock themselves in their room for hours and practice until their fingertips are too sore to keep playing.  But after a couple of months, once the initial excitement has [...]

The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music.  As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal,  It is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country and even heavy metal.  A 12 bar blues can be played in any key, and [...]

Electronic tuners are cheap, accurate and readily available.  Even people with a very good ear will probably be able to tune faster with a tuner than by ear.  You can even get pedal tuners, that you can step on to tune quickly and silently, before stepping on them again and being ready to play straight [...]

A common question amongst new guitarists is whether it is better to learn electric guitar or learn acoustic guitar.  If you are thinking that you want to learn guitar, and are unsure what type of guitar you should learn on, then perhaps this post can help you make up your mind.
To start with, let’s first [...]

When you first pick up the electric guitar and are unsure exactly what to do with it, one of the first things you will generally learn are some simple chords.
So, just what is a chord, anyway?
Technically, a chord is a set of harmonically related notes, played simultaneously.  To be less academic about it, a chord [...]

What is a guitar pickup?
A pickup is one of those little rectangular things on the body of an electric guitar, directly under the strings.  It will either be covered in a metal case, or in a plastic bobbin with some metal pole pieces or a bar magnet exposed.
What does it do?
A pickup is what makes [...]

For many of us, our decision to learn guitar is not something we ever thought about too hard.  It was almost as though it was made for us.. we just knew that it was something we had to do.  For other people though, it’s something they will need to find some logical reasons to do [...]

An electric guitar really does sound a lot better when it’s in tune.  Even the nicest, priciest, most gorgeous fourteen thousand dollar special edition Les Paul will sound terrible if the tuning is out.  If you’re not sure exactly what you should tune to, here’s a guide.
What tunings are out there?
Standard tuning on a guitar [...]

What is guitar tablature?
Guitar tablature, often just called ‘tab’, is a simple way of writing out music for the guitar.  It differs from standard musical notation in that, instead of just showing you what notes to play, it shows you the strings and the frets on which to play them.  Unlike regular musical notation, which [...]