Learn Guitar Too

I’ve just had an idea. Why not publish a series here at LearnGuitar2.com that would present the best guitarists ever known to mankind and focus on things you can do to mimic them…

Of course, nothing beats hours spent practicing and getting your guitar mastery to the top level, but there still are some things you can do apart from that.

I mean things like: get the same guitar that your hero has, read books about them as well as books written by them personally, listen to their albums, even wear the same clothes (because why the hell not?).

We’re starting the series with Steve Vai.

Basic guitar scales series continues with the G harmonic minor guitar scale. I particularly like this one due to its interesting layout on the fretboard. Playing it is a nice exercise for your left hand skill.

Here’s the basic pattern containing three G sounds each one an octave higher. Sounds a little sad, as usually the case with minor scales.

Doesn’t even sound real, does it? We’re all used to tuning our guitars every couple of songs we play. Or constantly checking the tune to make sure that one sharp string doesn’t ruin our performance in the middle of a solo.

There is a solution to this.

The only reason I didn’t publish this post earlier was that I didn’t want it to be misunderstood for an April Fools’ Day joke.

You really can make your guitar to never go out of tune.

Of course, it will require some modifications to be made, and some new equipment to be bought, but apart from that, almost any guitar can sound great … forever (you still have to change strings every once in a while, though).

It’s been a while since I published a post with some cool guitar pics … outrageous guitar pics to be more specific.

It’s about time to fix that so here’s a set of 18 outrageous guitars (most of them extremely funny).

We covered basic guitar tuning a while ago, but there’s a lot more to the topic than just that. Your guitar needs to be in tune in every position and on every fret. Tuning your guitar normally only gets it to tune in the basic position (zero fret). What about other positions? What does it mean to adjust intonation?

If your instrument is set up properly it will naturally tune in every position, but there’s a small chance of such a situation occurring just like that.

No worries, though. You can get your instrument to tune pretty easily by doing something called adjusting guitar intonation, or like others like to call it – guitar bridge tuning.

The topic of today is a little different – song writing, music writing, creating a melody … essentially, everything that can be considered an element of crafting a piece of music.

If you’ve ever tried to come up with your own music there are two different paths you were likely to follow:

• Come up with a melody and then try to make it perfect.
• Come up with a melody and then use it almost immediately, without trying to make it perfect.

As you can see, they don’t get along very well… First of all, what’s the difference?