Let's take a look at some of the most popular guitar scales. These are the ones that you've heard a thousand times on all of your favorite recordings. Everyone from Hendrix to Paramore, Stevie Ray Vaughn to the Arctic Monkeys. They're all using the same scales. What they do with it speaks volumes about their talent and creativity. We'll give you the scale shapes and some understanding of how they work so you can play right along with your favorite recordings.
TobyMac Songs: How To - From Toby's Guitar Player - Tim Rosenau
- September 20, 2016
- Guitar Lessons
YouTube is a great tool for learning songs. With a little digging, you can find TobyMac Songs, or virtually any song you’ve ever heard. However, there is a dark underbelly to learning guitar on YouTube. I’m sorry to say, but most of these “unofficial tutorials” are incorrect.
Transcribing songs is an art form in and of itself; even the best guitarists in the world can get it wrong, and there’s plenty of guesswork going on.
Popular Worship Songs on Guitar: Songs & Keys
- September 17, 2016
- Guitar Lessons
It should be very encouraging to know that like Pop, Rock, and Country music, Worship songs are generally easy to play and very repetitive. It’s very cool that with only a few chords, you can play hundreds of popular worship songs on guitar.
The 1, 4, 5, pattern with a 6mi or 2mi and an occasional 7b or 5/7 pretty much sums up most of the modern songs on the radio. Ok so a 3mi maybe, but the diatonic chords of any major scale generally are used in our western music. Just take a simple “C” scale. “C Dmi Emi F G Ami Bdim C” We usually substitute a G/B for the 7th scale degree because diminished chords just don't sound modern.
Easy Worship Songs For Guitar: Tips for Playing
- September 13, 2016
- Guitar Lessons
Most of the modern church friendly songs are 3-5 chord songs these days and are easy worship songs for guitar. The important thing in finding easy worship songs for guitar is finding a key that works for you as most “Worship Artist” are showcasing their range and ability on the recordings and even they lower the key for live to save their voice.
The other factor in doing easy worship songs for guitar is to pick a key the audience or congregation can sing in. For example, Chris Tomlin’s tune “How Great Is Our God” might have been recorded in Bb, but to make it more singable live and save the voice, he would do it in the key of A. It’s just a half step down, but it makes a big difference.
Guitar Tuning: Best Methods, Options and Tips
- September 11, 2016
- Guitar Lessons
In Guitar Tuning, A440 is the standard and most recognized pitch in Western music. That’s the first thing to remember as some tuners and or pitch pipes might not be perfect A440. We’ve used multiple tuners and it is possible that one of them might not be just right. Some of the foreign made tuners are just not calibrated right and there’s no way to adjust some of them.
There are several ways to tune your guitar. In this article, we will break down all the guitar tuning methods for you. For starters, you need your guitar strung properly. The small “E” or 1st string, then “B,” the second string, then “G,” then “D,” then “A,” and finally big “E.”
