How to Determine Your Guitar Skill Level
Practising guitar regularly is the best way to improve your guitar playing skills, but it’s a good idea to know your current guitar skill level so that you can decide which areas to focus on. Knowing how to determine your guitar skill level is not too difficult, but can go a long way towards helping […]
How to Improve Your Guitar Practice Sessions
If you practise guitar regularly you will get better, there’s no doubt about it. But if you make your guitar practice the best it can be, your skills will develop faster and more consistently, with fewer bad habits picked up along the way. In this guide, I’ll look at some simple guitar practices that you […]
How Long Does It Take to Learn Guitar?
The answer to the question “How long does it take to learn guitar?” can vary a lot. Learning to play guitar is like learning a language – you’ll never be ‘done’, but will continue to improve and become more fluent the more you practise and the more you play. Because of this, it’s impossible to […]
Types of Guitar Chords
Guitar chords are the sounds that make up any piece of music you compose on your guitar. Of course, you can strum single notes, but knowledge of the different guitar chords is essential information for a guitarist of any genre or field. What are the different types of guitar chords? How many guitar chords do […]
9th Chords
What’s up guys! Bryan here – today we’re going to look at 9th chords! We could consider this an extended chord. The formula for a Major 9th chord is [1 3 5 7 9] and as we learned in a previous lesson, (**add link to Golden Rules blog**) to build a minor chord we must […]
C Major 7#11
What’s up guys! Bryan here – today I want to talk about a particular chord, maybe some people would call this a “jazz chord” because it has an extension added to it. As you may have guessed from the title, the chord we’re focusing on today is the C Major 7#11 (Cmaj7#11). It contains an […]
Sus Chords
What’s up guys! Bryan here – today I want to talk about suspended or ‘sus’ chords. A sus chord is when we take a major chord [1 3 5] but suspend the 3rd and either raise to a 4th or lower to a 2nd: [1 4 5] or [1 2 5] respectively. Let’s look at […]
Tutorial – Thinking behind the Five Pentatonic Shapes
What’s up guys, this is Bryan and today I’d like to talk about my way of thinking about the pentatonic scale – so let’s take the A minor Pentatonic as our example. I usually think about the root, the starting string and the starting finger. So, we start with our first finger on the 5th […]
The Blues Scale
What’s up guys! Bryan here and today I want to talk about the blues scale! You probably already know about the blues scale, so we’re going to focus more on my thinking, the concepts behind my approach, and how I practice it. We will also talk about why certain shapes are more favorable to play […]
Golden Rules of Music
What’s up guys! Bryan here – bit of a theory lesson today and I want to show you what I refer to as the golden rules of music! When discussing certain types of music theory it can sometimes be easier to demonstrate on a piano keyboard, as the accidentals (sharps and flats) are located on […]
How to Get Better at Guitar
If you want to know how to get better at guitar, or you feel like you’re not progressing as fast as you would like, this guide offers some hints and tips on how to practise, as well as a few different ways to think about how to improve your guitar playing. Remember it’s easy to […]
Best Age to Learn Guitar
A lot of people wonder whether there’s a best age to learn guitar (and if so, what is it?) There are really two answers to that question, so let’s look at both in detail and decide what age to start guitar lessons for the best results. First of all, I’ll discuss the best age to […]