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Guitar Members - Hints & Tips
Welcome to our Hints & Tips section. Learning to play a musical instrument, like learning to do anything, can seem very frustrating to begin with. It seems at times that no matter how hard you try you just don't seem to get any better.
We all know though from things that we have mastered in the past that in time it is is possible to learn anything but it would have been much easier if we could have had someone to give us a few 'tricks of the trade' along the way.
In this section we provide some of those hints and tips that can make a big difference to your learning experience. Things that we've learned, things we've picked up from other players along the way and things that we have learned from our students as they try to improve their playing.
String Buzz
When you first start learning to play the guitar it can be quite frustrating; your hand aches, your fingers get so sore you sometimes can’t bear to place them back on the strings again, you have difficulty keeping a regular steady count, but one of the most frustrating things that we have to try and deal with is string buzz...read more here |
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Keeping Time
It doesn’t matter how many chords you know or how well you read music, if you can't keep perfect time you have big problems. Keeping a perfect count must be top of your list every time, after all, how could you work with other musicians in a band if you can't keep perfect time.read more here |
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Practice
Nature compels us all to move through life. We couldn’t remain stationary no matter how much we wished it. As humans we are programmed to grow, to develop, to improve to take us all to our full potential, and there is only one way we can do this - PRACTICE....read more here |
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The A Chord
When we begin playing the guitar we are all eager to be able to play a song that everyone knows as soon as possible, however, one of the beginners chords that gives people the most trouble is the A chord, in fact some people find it so awkward that they find it hard to believe that it is a beginners chord...read more here |
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The Chromatic Scale
The Chromatic scale is a series of twelve notes, each one is a half step, also known as a Semitone, apart. A half step is the shortest distance you will move on your guitar fretboard, it is simply moving from one fret to the very next fret beside it....read more here |
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