How to make a Volume Pedal For Guitar (or Attenuator for amplifier) just In 3 Minutes. It will be a very simple passive pedal. Which means you don’t need any power supply or batteries. To make this stomp box I will use only the most basic regular details. And I even will not use a soldering iron!
In this guitar lesson for beginners I show what is a guitar capo, what is it for and how to use a capo.
This is a guitar lesson for beginners: What’s the difference between Reverb and Delay (Echo) guitar FX pedals? I hope everything will be clear about these effects after my explanation, comparison and demonstration.
Best Online Metronome 4/4 for practicing.
20 minutes duration!
This is a video tutorial of how to string an electric guitar. Changing strings on an electric guitar is very important thing to know.
This is an easy lesson for beginners. It explains of what parts electric guitar consists. Electric guitar consists of three main parts — head, fingerboard and body. Every of these parts has details which you will find in this video lesson. By the way, in this video Fender Stratocaster is shown. So note, that other electric guitars have the same titles of details, but their location, quantity and presence could be different.
This is an easy lesson for beginners. It explains of what parts acoustic guitar consists. Acoustic guitar consists of three main parts — head, fingerboard and body. Every of these parts has details which you will find in this video lesson.
Easy guitar lesson how to play Hammer Ons and How to play Pull Offs on guitar Basic Techniques
First Steps to Learning How to Play the Guitar.
As a guitar teacher, I get a lot of brand new students who have never played the instrument before. They are enthusiastic, yet also very amazed to learn that there are a number of thing which much be learned and enforced very early on to fully maximize the potential of each student.
In this article we will take a look at some very simple but crucial steps you must take in order to learn the guitar.
If you play in “clean channel”, chords that consist of six strings sound good.
But if you play with overdrive or distortion chords that consist of six strings have some dissonance (untuned guitar sound).
So, most of hard-rock or heavy metal guitarists play “not full” chords. Those chords are called POWER CHORDS.
It is easy to say, that you must play blues with your heart, but it is much harder to explain the techniques. This lesson is for those guitar beginners, who are tired of poetic words about blues and just want to learn a simple blues riff. In our video lesson we show the basic blues guitar riff, which could be listened in many blues songs.
Technique of playing with a guitar pick is not good for every song. That is why, for lyrical songs exists a Fingerpicking Technique (for example: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, Mutter by Rammstein, Still Loving You by Scorpions and Nothing Else Matters by Metallica). This kind of guitar playing could be difficult for beginners, but it is absolutely possible to learn. In this video lesson you will see five different patterns of Fingerpicking Technique. We will demonstrate every of 5 patterns by playing 4 simple chords: C, G, Am, F.
Every guitar effects demo (all guitar effects tutorial)
Most popular guitar effects demonstration
(in one video):
1. Chorus
2. Phaser
3. Flanger
4. Tremolo
5. Vibrato
6. Wah-wah
7. Delay/Echo
8. Reverb
9. Overdrive/Distortion
10. Noise gate
11. Acoustic Simulator
In standard guitar tuning power chords (F5, G5, A5, etc.) should be taken with two or three fingers.
To get Drop D you should low sixth string on one tone (two frets).
How to Tune a Guitar?
If you have an electronic tuner, you can tune your guitar in very simple way.
But if you do not then this guide will help you.
Main difficulty is how to tune the first thinnest string (The rest of strings we wil tune using it).
So, how to tune the first string?
