Where do you start when you want to learn to play guitar? Well, the first thing you want to do is learn ‘open chords’,a basic strumming patternand then start practicing some beginner songs. The chords are the building blocks for your songs, they give you the harmony. The strumming del...
The scales used in classical guitar depend a lot on what type of music period we’re studying, and most of all on the composers. But to give you some examples we can name theMelodic Minor Scale(Sample 4), which is avery common toolinBach’s music, and theChromatic Scalethat wasvery c...
This chart-topping smash is defined today by its iconic guitar riff. Too bad Slash despised it. "I was sitting around making funny faces and acting like an idiot and played that riff," he said. "Izzy [Stradlin] started playing the chords that I was playing, strumming them, and all of ...