With the whole world at your fingertips, online has become a lifeline for people all over the world. You may be an American teen sitting in your bedroom learning Zakk Wylde licks or you may be in Nepal using a cell phone and data. Either way, you can see the exact same thing online. Language is becoming less and less of a barrier with apps and more people globally speaking English. Guitar lessons for the American kid would be easy to get, but for the Nepali kid, it might be impossible. Taking guitar lessons online or even just watching and being influenced by Youtube and other media streams is changing the world daily. So why would you want to take guitar lessons online?
Bass Guitar Parts - Best Retailers and More
- March 20, 2017
- Bass Guitar
First, let’s go over the basic bass guitar parts. Like any electric guitar, there is wood, hardware and electronics. The headstock has 4, 5, 6 or even 8 tuners depending on the amount of strings you chose for your bass. There are string trees to hold the strings tight and in place. There’s a nut or bridge where the strings cross and that’s pretty much the headstock. The neck is usually maple or rosewood but could be graphite or some other material with usually nice fat frets. There are fret markers on the fretboard and along the top of the neck usually in the binding, if it has binding.
Kid Guitar 101: How to Learn and What to Do
- March 20, 2017
- Guitar 101
In Kid Guitar 101, there are a lot of factors to take into consideration. With children, environment is a big deal. Each kid’s aptitude and attention span is different. Some kids are good in a classroom at six years old, while others can’t seem to manage a classroom for 15 minutes even at an older age. With technology compounding every day, kids are glued to devices and learn only what they need to know in the moment. A kid can look up a song and mimic what he or she sees and hears long enough to pull off a convincing reproduction of the tune. This, however, doesn’t make them a good musician or qualify them to be considered an expert guitarist.
Notes on a Guitar: What and Where Are They?
- March 6, 2017
- Guitar 101
The notes on a guitar are the same notes on a piano or any other western instrument. The only exception is that on a stringed instrument, you can bend a note to a 1/4 step, 1/2 step, whole step or step and a 1/2. The guitar, like piano, is broken down into 1/2 steps and whole steps. Moving just one fret in any direction on a guitar is a 1/2 step and moving two frets in any direction is a whole step. It’s a little tricky with the open strings, but the principal is the same. The steps are harder to see on guitar than piano because the latter has its keys laid out in black and white. The patterns on guitar take some getting used to, but let's see if we can help you learn the notes on a guitar.
Guitar Notes That You Need to Know First
- March 6, 2017
- Guitar 101
Looking at the guitar neck is very confusing at first. It’s not quite like piano where you can see the white notes and the black notes. The low E string is the lowest note of a standard tuned guitar and you pretty much max out 4 octaves later at high C, depending on how many frets your guitar has. Basically from the C1 on the 2nd string, first fret (which is middle C on the guitar), you have 2 octaves up and almost 2 octaves down. It stops short of the full scale at the low E note. Guitar notes that you need to know? We suggest you get to know as many guitar notes as you can, but let’s try to compact things for you.
