Monday, April 26, 2010
A capo is something you use to change the pitch of different chords. It is a very useful way for guitarists to play as it makes playing of songs much easier for them. Like for example, if you are playing a song in a key of G with 3 chords( G, C and D) and you would like to change the pitch of the song into a key of A, you could just capo the 2nd fret. In this way by playing the same chord pattern, the notes would change to A, D and E respectively.
When using the guitar capo, it is important to put it a little behind the fret and make it parallel to the fret as you can get. It makes the guitar sound nice and smooth when the capo is at the right place. After tuning the guitar, you will realise that the sound produced has a higher pitch than when no capo was used. This is because frets on the guitar are one step each. Therefore, when the capo is placed on the 3rd string (for example), it would sound one and a half steps higher than normal.
Okay, just listen to the video created by me and Winston(Camera Man) :)
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Basically, did you know that 90% of the songs of radio are made up of only four chords? They are G, Em, C and D! Before we teach you how to play those amazing things, we shall teach you frets, strings and fingering. The number of frets in a guitar might be different and is varied by the type of guitar.
There are six strings in a normal guitar while there are four strings in a bass guitar.
You have five fingers in one hand and that is obvious, so we shall take your index finger as one, middle finger of two, ring finger as three, little finger as four and the thumb as five.
For the tuning of the guitar, you would need an electric tuner or you can tune the guitar by yourself by hearing the right tune. You can do so by watching the “YouTube” video below.
For those using right hand, you place the guitar at your right leg and use your right hand to hold the head of the guitar which is just below the tuners. Your left hand will be in the middle part of the guitar which would be the hollow part of the guitar with a hole.
And for those using right hand, your left hand would change the cords or notes while your right hand will be the one which will strum/pluck the guitar.
For those using left hand, you place the guitar at your left leg and use your left hand to hold the head of the guitar which is just below the tuners. Your right hand will be in the middle part of the guitar which would be the hollow part of the guitar with a hole.
So for those using left hand, your right hand would change the cords or notes while your left hand will be the one which will strum/pluck the guitar.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Welcome to our music blog. :) This blog is for our music project which aims to teach people the basic skills to play an ACOUSTIC GUITAR.
We are a group of students from Hwa Chong Institution. This blog is for our music project.
The group members include:
Winston Tan
Yeo Zhen Ning
Jaron Cheung
Tan Jun Jie
Leow Yong Heng
Alex Peng
Li Wong Kin
Thanks to all the blogs i referred to(countless) for html code help :) (esp. cyn' and sixseven)
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