Guitar

Great Gui­tar Play­ers
to Check Out

-John Mayer
-Dave Matthews
-Jewel
-Ani DeFranco
-Andres Ser­govia
-Eric Clap­ton
-Paco DeLu­cia
-Django Rein­hart
-Steve Vai
-Richie Samb­ora

Gui­tar Toolbox

-Metronome
-Chord Chart
-Musi­cal Dic­tio­nary
-Gui­tar Tuner
-Strum­ming Pat­terns
-Gui­tar Work­sheets

A lit­tle about the Guitar…

 There are a few basic parts of the guitar:

• Head­stock: The head­stock holds the tuners which allow you to loosen and tighten the ten­sion of the strings in order to tune the gui­tar it’s proper pitches. The head­stock also holds the nut which dis­trib­utes the strings evenly across the fret­board in order to play them comfortably.

• Neck: On the neck we find the fret­board, where your fret­ting hand presses down to cre­ate the notes which allow you play the chords from your favorite song or learn a solo There are also small dots known as posi­tion mark­ers which make it easy to find the 3rd,5th,7th,9th, and 12th frets respectively..

• Body: The body of the gui­tar is where the sound is pro­duced on an acoustic and where the elec­tron­ics and pickup are on an elec­tric. The bridge keeps the ten­sion on the strings and on many gui­tars we find a pick guard to pro­tect the body of the gui­tar from being scratched when we use a pick.

The gui­tar can be learned by tra­di­tional music nota­tion and we a unique sys­tem called tab­la­ture as in the exam­ple below…