B Chord Guitar

The Easiest Method for How to Play a B Chord on Guitar…

The B power chord – properly referred to as a root-fifth chord – represents the starting point for most power chord progressions.

The 5th string provides the root note of each succeeding chord. The B chord is among the easiest to fret. There are some ways to compensate for weak fingers and, although they are not proper technique, they can provide a way to get clear tone out of the chord and to provide an extra bit of strength when one has been playing for a while.

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Guitar Songs for Beginners

When people see a guitar lying around what’s the first thing they’re going to say?

Exactly. What songs can you play?

That’s why I created this list of guitar songs for beginners, so you can have a reply ready.

Whether you have an acoustic or electric you’ll find the chords easy to change between and they’re forgiving enough that people will actually know what you’re trying to play.

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Introduction to Ear Training

Have you ever wondered what skill or genetic variable Mozart or Beethoven had that you don’t?

Imagine being able to listen to any song and being able to identify what key the song is in and what scales the writer used.

You could be a savant at any instrument you wanted in record time. You could easily and naturally identify any note and immediately reproduce it on the instrument of your choice.

Interested? I bet you are.

This skill is what people call “Perfect pitch” 

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Why You Should Learn to Transcribe Your Favorite Songs on Guitar

How many times have you listened to a song and thought “If only I could create music like that”. It happens all the time and we go searching for answers only to be told you must practice the guitar every day and do all these practice routines so you get better and THEN you’ll be able to create music like that.

I’m here to tell you that there’s a much more enjoyable path and one that will lead you to become a better guitarist at the same time.

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Find Tab or Sheet Music for your Favorite Guitar Songs

You might have noticed that the Internet is saturated with tabs for guitar songs, it’s almost like a guitarist’s paradise…

almost…

The problem is that 99% of tabs online are people’s own interpretations of the songs, and it’s usually a “close enough” type approach to learning a song. Read on to find the best source of guitar tabs online.

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Some Great Guitar Licks You Can Learn Today

When improvising it’s much easier to use licks that you’ve practiced rather than starting from scratch every time. A great way to add them into your practice routine is to find out which key they’re in, run through a few scale warm-ups, put on your metronome and make a start.

I prefer to write down the licks as I play them, I know I can just print them out from the net and keep them in a folder, but I prefer to increase the chance that I’ll remember them as I’m learning them by using every piece of memory retention available to me, and writing down what you know with a pen on paper is one of the best ways to do that.

So, get out a blank piece of tab sheet music, load up the following licks from the net and write them down as you play them.

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5 Essential Guitar Tools I Couldn’t Live Without

You’ve got a guitar and you’re set… right?

Learning guitar can be much easier when you have the right guitar tools on hand and there’s been some guitar tools in my studio that are like staple foods for me, I couldn’t live without them. Some of these things are obvious, like you should always have a good collection of picks, but often overlooked, sometimes it’s easy to get attached to one pick when you might benefit from changing picks for different styles of music.

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How to Play Guitar Standing Up

You know you’ve nailed something on the guitar when you can play it just as easily standing up as you can sitting down.

Learning how to play guitar standing up not only gives you the buzz of showmanship it reinforces the techniques you’ve learned while sitting down, which improves your flexibility as a guitarist.

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7 Free Online Guitar Tuners

Tuning your guitar can be as simple as tuning to a single pitch (usually using the A string) and relatively tuning your guitar from that note, right through to tuning each string to it’s desired pitch.

If you primarily have your guitar hooked up to your computer for practice and your chosen piece of software doesn’t come with a tuner (for whatever reason) then you should check out these free online guitar tuners, which often do more than the label says.

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The 7 Greatest Guitar Solos – And How to Play Them

Really nailing a guitar solo feels great, but deciding on which ones to really learn is often a hard choice. Here’s some of the best guitar solos that people find the most… learnable (is that a word?).

Check out some easy guitar solos by some artists you’re sure to recognize

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