On The Path Of Rockstars (Part 1)

Hey, I want to buy and learn guitar!  I whispered into the ear of my colleague and watched him as he gazed in disbelieve when he said; “man it’s my dream too, I mean I wanna play guitar too.” “Wow, let’s do this than!” I said with an excitement. “yeah, let’s talk about it in the break.” he said with beaming eyes. As far as I remember it was year 2005 or 2006 and it was a time when I was working as a successful telemarketer in an international call center and was rocking not only my company but was breaking the records of entire telesales industry. It was a time when the call center revolution had just arrived in Pakistan and was conceived like phenomena. As the call center industry in Pakistan was moving forward so was I. within few months of my career as a telemarketer I became the...

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5 Questions every Guitarist has to encounter- No matter how much they tick him off

No matter what kind of audience is watching a guitarist playing his music, or which place it is; there always would be 3 stupid questions that all the guitarists have to encounter from the people: 1: How much your guitar worth? 2: have you learned music? or you just play anything that you hear by hitting different strings? 3: How much time will I (the listener) need to be able to play guitar as good as (any of his favorite music bands such as; Linkin park, creed, Bryan Adams etc)? 4: Is it difficult to play a guitar?/ does it all require to hit some strings to come up with a song? 5: Hey, play that song (any random song of his choice). I mean...

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Tips For Beginners On Buying A Guitar

When you are first getting into playing guitar and need to purchase one, there are three steps that every new guitarist should take when choosing their instrument. For beginners, it can sometimes feel overwhelming but following these three steps will ensure or at least give you a much better chance of getting the guitar that you love. 1. Figure out exactly what you need and what your budget allows. The first thing you should be thinking about is what kind of music you will be wanting to play on it as well as how much you can afford.If you decide that you want to start learning rock music, you will definitely want to be looking at electric guitars. Because of this, you will also want to factor in the price of an amplifier to go along with the guitar. For budding folk or country musicians, you...

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Why Aren't You a Better Guitarist?-The twenty concepts you need......and the five things to forget!

If you are like most players, you are desiring to become a better guitar player. Through my own learning experience and through teaching well over 1,000 students, I have learned a lot on this subject. Students often ask why they are not not at the level that they desire to be and what can be done about it. I have asked myself this same question many times in the past. A long time passed before I began to understand the answers. Like you probably have done, I have read a ton of interviews with great players and articles written by many of these same players. I often found it frustrating whenever the subject of learning to play guitar came up or when advice was offered on improving one's playing. With a small number of exceptions, very little time and space...

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Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy (Final Part 4)

The Barre Chord You learned all the basic open chords, and practiced until you can move between them smoothly and even start to learn guitar easy songs. Now it's time to take a guitar string more challenging beginner: the barre chord. This is a form of chords that can be played on any fret on the guitar because it does not use any open strings. Instead, the finger makes a bar across the fretboard, playing three notes at once. To make this work you need to rotate your wrist so forward, get that finger as flat as possible, and dive on the fretboard. Here is what it seems at first fret, which gives the chord: F major barre 0 1 2 3 4 5 E |—|-...

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Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy (Part 3)

There is a chord more open to learn. Here's D major (D, F #, A): D Home 0 1 2 3 4 5 E |—|—|- 2 -|—|—|—| B |—|—|—|- 3 -|—|—| G |—|—|- 1 -|—|—|—| D | -0 -|—|—|—|—|—| A |-x-|—|—|—|—|—| E |-x-|—|—|—|—|—| There are some variations of that chord worth learning. You can add the string to open a little more depth, and you also can add an F # on the low E string: D Major with low F # 0 1 2 3 4 5 E |—|—|- 2 -|—|—|—| B |—|—|—|- 3 -|—|—| G |—|—|- 1 -|—|—|—| D | -0 -|—|—|—|—|—| A | -0 -|—|—|—|—|—| E-|—|—|—| |—|—|- T The 'T means "you need to wrap your thumb around the neck and wear F #. It is almost impossible in a lot of noise, but if you're playing an electric, and especially if you want to play any type of hard rock, is a valuable form of knowledge. If you can not get it now, do not...

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Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy ( part 2)

You can also play G major with a string of B open: G Major 0 1 2 3 4 5 And |-|—|—|- 3 -|—|—| B | 0 |—|—|—|—|—| G | 0 |—|—|—|—|—| D | 0 |—|—|—|—|—| A 1 |-|—|- -|—|—|—| And |-|—|—|- 2 -|—|—| This form is more commonly used in folk and country, while the first form is more common in the rock. This has to do with B, which is the third largest: a distorted sound with the third can cause some ugly connotation when played on the strings above. As you learn guitar chords, make sure you try to play them with a variety of tones and pay attention to what sounds best for you. Also practice, getting your fingers in the right places as quickly as possible. Be patient: guitar chords learning takes time and practice. Focus on getting a clean sound all the notes and you'll improve quickly. Let's...

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Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy (Part 1)

One of the skills you need to master as a guitarist is playing chords. While there are literally thousands of different possible ways of chords on the guitar, we focus on a few guitar chords beginner basics that can be moved and altered chords for many later. These can also be used right away to learn guitar songs easy. Different flavors You will learn chords guitar all types, but ultimately, there are two basic types of chords in music: big and small. All possible chords can be grouped into one of these two types. Major chords are built on larger scales and have a sound 'happy', while minor chords come from scales smaller and tend to have...

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WwW.GuitarGrenade.Co.Nr Logo Launched ! ! !

Hi guys, Finally the official WwW.GuitarGrenade.Co.Nr logo is here! Give your feedback pleas...

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Speed Playing

In this lesson were going to cover all aspects of playing fast guitar, including speed picked runs, legato phrases and economy picking phrases. Hopefully at the end of this lesson you should have some useful warm up excersises, tips on all picking aspects and lots of excersises to practise with. This lesson will be split into 5 sections : 1. Warm up excersises 2. Alternative picking 3. Economy picking 4. Legato playing 5. Using these tips musically Warm Up ExcersisesThese are a list of simple excersises that are useful for quickly warming up both your hands before playing these excersises. I use these almost everyday and they don't take long but they get your hands all warmed up, getting blood into your hands and getting the muscles pumped into your fingers so after a quick few excersises...

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Parts Of An Electric Guitar

Since there is no other guide on the parts of a guitar (yet), I'll post one myself. Body - this is the part of the guitar that holds the bridge, pickups, strings, strap holders, tremelo inputs, and volume/tone controls. The body is also usually made of some type of wood and comes in many different colors. Strings - usually every guitar has 6 strings. You pluck and pick the strings to produce noise. Each string has a different level of thickness. The thicker the string, the lower the sound and vice versa. Sometimes, the strings can break and you need to get them replaced. Bridge - the part where the strings sit at the body end of the guitar. The bridge may be Tune-O-Matic, Floyd Rose, Hardtail, Bigsby or Tremolo. Pickups - the electronic devices that pick up magnetic fluctuations in...

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Basic Guitar Chords-3 different ways to understand and learn

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Linkin Park - Meteora - Numb

Acoustic version of Linkin Park's "Numb". A great song, which also sounds great on acoustic guitar. Hope you enjoy it!! Capo on 2. Intro: EM C G D * 2 Verse 1: EM C I'm tired of being what you want me to be G D Feeling so faithless lost under the surface EM C Don't know what you're expecting of me G D C D Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes (Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone) EM G C D Every step I take is another mistake to you (Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone) Chorus: EM C G I've become so numb I can't feel you there D EM I've become so tired so much more aware C G I've becoming...

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