Today I am going to talk some more about improvisation, specifically melodic improvisation: `soloing’ or `lead playing’ as some call it. Sorry jazz people, I am going to disappoint you and focus on songs that stay in a single key. In particular, I want to reach those people who have only recently started exploring improvisation. [...]
August 31, 2010
When you first start out on the guitar you will have a hard time putting your fingers on the appropriate strings — especially while fretting chords. You place one finger on one string, so far so good. Then you place another finger on another string, but in doing so the first finger you placed wants [...]
August 22, 2010
Wait. Jimi who? Wasn’t he the guy with the big hair who held his guitar the wrong way round? Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist who — to many people — is considered to be among the greatest guitarists ever to have graced our ears. His style is easily recognisable – raw, melodic, rhythmic and with [...]
August 9, 2010
When I was a teenager I used to hang out with other kids in my school who also played an instrument. I remember one guy in particular, who was a guitar player, who I really looked up to. He had been taking lessons for a couple of years, and I had only just picked up [...]
September 9, 2010