Showing posts with label Guitar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guitar. Show all posts

June 13, 2011

Basic Guitar Technique

You have to know about this basic guitar technique:

Slide:
The first note is struck and then the frethand moves to the location of the second pitch on the same string using the same finger.

Pull-Off:
The first note is struck and the second that not far away from the first and still on the same string, is sounds without picking. [The frethand pulls the string to sounding the second note]

Vibrato:
The string is vibrated by rapidly bending and releasing a note with the frethand

Hammer-on:
The first string note is struck and then the other string note that not far away from the first is fretted on the same string in a continuous motion. Two fingers are involved

Wrist Mute:
The string is dampened by the pressure of the plucking hand at the wrist, producing a percussive effect

Choke:
(mute) The string is dampened by the frethand finger(s) to produce a toneless percussive effect

Harmonic:
The frethand lightly touches the string over a designated fret, and then is pluck producing a chime-like effect

Octave:
Tone(s) is to be played one octave higher than the written note(s)

June 11, 2011

Have Fun Playing Guitar Tips

Love your guitar. Make sure your hands are clean enough to pick and finger notes. It would be better to wash and thoroughly dry your hands before picking up and playing the guitar notes. Make sure your fingernails are short enough to make yourself feel comfortable when fretting notes on the fingerboard. It would be uncomfortable if your nail hitting the board before your fingertip.
Do stretches on your finger and warm ups before playing the guitar chords. Do it by slowly fretting tones fret by fret on each string without wimpy down-strokes or up-strokes. Just a warm ups.
Make sure you always use the proper techniques when playing the guitar chords. Just stop and give it a little rest when you feel big pain or something wrong in the wrist or arm, and you can go back to it later when you feel fresh with your arm or wrist. The proper techniques are your fret hand is always close to the chord fret board, wrist is down, fingers not flying out of position, fingers cupped and on your fingertips when fretting notes and chords. Feel relax on your thumb.
Playing slow and comfort is always better than playing fast and sloppy. Play it usually and speed will come in time.
Be patient. It takes time to get your fingers (muscles) used to fretting chords and tones. Try to memorize each chord that you played.
Spare 15 or 20-minute of time to play guitar and play whenever you want to play.
Make your ears usual to hear each tone on guitar. It will develop your ears and your feeling.
Wipe down your guitar neck and guitar fret board after playing, to keep your guitar neck clean and your guitar fret board clean. This keeps prolong string life.
Share with your friends which is guitarist or other who played guitar about what you learned in guitar lesson. It will help you to get more vision on guitar.
One of the important things you need to know when learning guitar is STRUCTURE a.k.a. SCALES PATTERN.
Yes, it is important to know some theory but the most important is how to apply it on the instrument.

November 30, 2010

About guitar neck

There were ropes on the guitar is called a guitar string, which consists of 6 pieces for normal guitar.
First string, - called the E string (naked small string do not have the winding)
Second string, - called the B string (naked string has no winding)
Third string, - called the G string (string that has winding) 
Fourth string, - called the D string (string that have a thick coil) 
Fifth string, - called the A string (string that have a thicker coil) 
Sixth string, - called the E string (string that have the most thick coil)


Guitar strings at number 1, 2, 3, called the string solo
Guitar strings at number 4, 5, 6, called the string bass


Try ringing the strings (stringed) without suppressed (los strings).
Stringed the First string, it will get the tone of E
Stringed the Second string, it will get the tone of B
Stringed the Third string, it will get the tone of G
Stringed the Fourth string, it will get the tone of D
Stringed the Fifth string, it will get the tone of A
Stringed the Sixth string, it will get the tone of E

Sample Image:




Shape Guitar and parts there of

On classical guitar:
  • The top part of the guitar called the head of the guitar (HEADSTOCK). The base of the guitar head is named as NUT. At the head of the guitar there is a tool to regulate the tension of each string guitar, called TUNNERS (TUNNING KEYS).
  • Section after the head of the guitar is a guitar NECK. At the neck of the guitar there are transverse lines made of metal, referred to as line pressure (FRET).
  • Section after the neck of the guitar is the guitar body (BODY). There is a resonance hole (SOUNDHOLE) there, which issued a guitar sound. In the body there is the base of the guitar strings and backing strings called BRIDGE and SADDLE. Usefulness of the base strings and retaining the base strings are as binding to each guitar string. This should be a strong base for the guitar strings are not easily loosened, as if loosened, could make changes to high and low tone on the guitar.
 Example of classical guitar image: