Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thanks for reading our awesome blog. So here's a video for you guys. My band covered Beat It by Fall Out Boy and we hope you enjoy it. Thanks xD
So after learning the basics, you should be able to play most of the songs played on the radio. If you want to learn how to play a radio song, simply just go to www.ultimate-guitar.com and search the tab of the song. We really hope our blog has helped in teaching you the basics and the things you need to know about guitar. Just keep on practising, and you would find yourself learning more notes and techniques in playing the guitar such as barr chords, power chords etc.
I was inspired to practise hard from this video. This is the result of hard work and talent put together as one.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
So here's some basic notes for you to play!
(you might need to mute if you want to. Muting is just putting ur finger on the string without pressing that string down)
C7: -Index finger at fret 1, string 2
-Middle finger at fret 2, string 4
-Ring finger at fret 3, string 5
-Play All the strings in one go except the 6th string.( you can also mute the 6th string)
Picture:
Dm: -Index finger at fret 1, string 1 -Middle finger at fret 2, string 3 -Ring finger at fret 3, string 2Picture:
-Strum all the strings down except for strings 6 and 5.
( you can also mute strings 6 and 5)
G7: -Index finger at fret 1, string 1 -Middle finger at fret 2, string 5 -Ring finger at fret 3, string 6Picture: 
Am: -Index finger at fret 1, string 2
-Middle finger at fret 2, string 4
-Ring finger at fret 2, string 3
-Play all the strings except for the 6th string.
(you can also mute the 6th string)
Picture:
G: -Index finger at fret 2, string 5
-Middle finger at fret 3, string 6
-Ring finger at fret 3, string 1Picture:
Em: -Index finger at fret 1, string 3-Middle finger at fret 2, string 4
-Note: Ring finger does nothing
-Play all the strings except for the 6th string)
(you can also mute the 6th string)
Picture:
F: -Index finger at fret 1, string 1 and 2 (Try to hold both)-Middle finger at fret 2, string 3-Ring finger at fret 3, string 4Picture:
(The G and the G7 produces almost the same sound but the G might sound better but if your not use the G, you might want to try G7 for practice first. )
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
I would say it's the guitar's best friend, but indeed many guitarists depend on guitar picks to play their song. It comes in a few different materials, such as plastic, rubber, wood, glass, metal etc.
The Metal Pick: Commonly used in the electric guitar. Doesn't really suit acoustic guitar as there is a 'rough' sound when chords are being played.
The Plastic pick :This pick is only for bass. Due to the fact that distance between strings is longe, the size of the pick can be big.
Plastic Guitar:This pick suits acoustic guitar very well. It is light and very effective when it comes to playing chords on the guitar.
Buzzes are hard to be avoided. Sometimes, it is due to the fact that you are not pressing down quite hard enough when your playing a chord or a note. A finger that accidentally comes into contact with an adjacent string, will prevent the string from producing its sound.
A tabulature is a system that represents frets and string of the guitar. It can be very useful as you progressing learning guitar. It is more commonly known as 'TAB'. Though the Tab doesn't tell you notes, it tells us where exactly you play it. As shown on the first tabulature (above), it explains how to read the tabulature giving one note as an example on how to read. The E,B,G,D,A,E letters at the right side of the tabulature represents the 1,2,3,4,5,6 strings as follow.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
In this post, we will provide the information you need to correctly store, maintain, and care for your guitar, including the six-string. we will tech you how to change the strings and what llittle extras to keep in your guitar case. First of all, we are going to teach you how to change the guitar strings. Old strings sound dull and lifeless and might even break when you are tuning the guitar so you'll need to change the strings once in a blue moon and this is how you should do it: 1. You remove the old string by snipping it off with wire cutters or by loosening the string so much that you can grab the string from the center and pull it off the post.
2. Attach the string to the bridge, place the end of the new string and pop out the bridge pin,
3. Place the end of the new string that has a brass ring inside the hold that held the bridge pin.4. Wedge the bridge pin firmly back in the hold with the slot facing forward.
5. Pull gently on the string until the brass ring rests against the bottom of the pin. Keep your thumb or finger on the pin so that it doesn't pop out and disappear into the abyss.
And there you have it, your new string! Your new strings always sounds better then the old one, so carrying on changing strings and you could master the "art" of six-string changing!
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) :)
LINK:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122020051141633&ref=ts#!/video/video.php?v=118373491523250&oid=122020051141633
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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