Guitar Learning Blog

Some say that when we learn guitar playing, it's a direct fast lane to Blues, and i believe that. Some of us might said "no! it's METAL! distortions! the spirit of on-stage performances take control!" or even such like, "you're totally misunderstood,  the notes will lead us into harmony, yet jazzy or classical, it's a way in understanding beautiful scientific-audible math.. bla bla.." "blahh.." Add blues on your playing yes, i still believe in blues . somehow it connects all guitar players, and connecting guitar players to other music players and the audiences. what is blues, actually? it's only a music genre, right? what's so special about it? here some thoughts i have about blues. blues is inside of guitarists' hands. it's pentatonic, just like world traditional scales in almost every cultures. when it comes to guitar playing, blues is the place where the wrong notes against the right ones and collaborate. it is...

this mister Eric Patrick Clapton is one of the greatest guitar player. a solo artist, and was a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. what i really know about him isn't much, but it's more than enough for me to acknowledge his achievements. his ability in guitar playing and song writing has inspired a lot of people beyond his generation. for the very first time i heard his voice through his song "wonderful tonight", i was a 12 years old kid, knew nothing about anything but that song lasts on my mind. it's like an introduction to mature and stylish love, a decent young gentleman who loves his gorgeous girl with all his nerve and adoration. it has catchy blues guitar licks which made any guitarists want to try it. for me, " Wonderful Tonight " is like a guidance to prom party which will help any young man to get his girl in stylish and decent way. next song which came to my ears is "tears in heaven" when i was in senior high school back...

well, indeed it's easier for us to understand the circle of fifth than the circle of fourths in guitar learning. There are two reason for this. first, we can always find the fifth note on the guitar fret board, simply by pick the string right above the root note (for the root note on the 3th, 4th, 5th string and the 1st string, the fifth note is right above it; for the 2nd string, the fifth note is half-note-down above).  it's visually known by our eyes and our fingers can touch it right away. the second reason and the real reason is that the circle of fifth is obtained from the notes order linearly. there is something that we called tetrachord. the wikipedia definition: a tetrachord is a series of three smaller intervals that span the interval of a perfect fourth, a 4:3 frequency proportion.  the circle of fifth is obtained from diatonic tetrachord (this is sh!t, there are too many difficult words for beginner guitarist like me to understand!). I'll try to explain...

What is the exact method in learning guitar? This is a question which has inspired since the day one of learning guitar as my music expression. And yes I’m a beginner for a life time. I have seen so many guitarists and virtuosos with their bright achievements and at some point I feel so down just by hearing their compositions. But I’m not a quitter. So I made this blog as my approaching method in learning guitar. Yup, by sharing what I’ve learnt so far and asking responses around the internet, again and over again then learn the new knowledge I got from doing that. That is my guitar learning system. What I got so far actually is very helpful, and I’d like to share them here. Some tips for beginner guitar players just like me. Here are some of them. First , choose your own guitar . It’s kind of difficult thing, because, as a beginner, we can’t be sure which guitar suits to our learning. Well, there you must have friends whom you trust to accompany you to guitar shop, or, you read ca...

you've just back from a guitar shop, or your guitar order has arrived then you found yourself lying on a couch with a guitar on your side. Big grin on your face, suddenly your brain said something, "i got a guitar! so what's next?!".. "plug it and play it loud? shred all along the fretboard? licks and arpeggios? or play the minus-one and jam along with it?".. nahh.. you gotta tune your guitar first and make sure everything's ready before you rock. and i think we all agree about one thing here. first we have to replace the guitar strings with the new one. Choosing Guitar Strings nobody is satisfied with the factory guitar strings. some of guitars were on shop display for too long. dirt and strings rust came along with the package. we all need to replace them with the new one and i believe that a brief of electric guitar strings reviews i share here will helps. here is what i got from wikipedia about electric guitar string sizes : The following t...

YES! now is a great time to bring stuff that made my ass work hard lately and forgot to blog. A new guitar for my playing. it's Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster Spalted Maple Top tele® HH and she's gorgeous! I'd been read about this stuff and its reviews several years ago and luckily i met this Fender last year. actually, it took me a year later to take this to my house but i have no complain at all about this spalted maple tele. here i share some pictures i made for this guitar and i think you'll like it. The guitar itself is a Set Neck Tele and it has beautiful finish well-crafted by Korean manufacturer. this fender special edition custom spalted maple tele is using rosewood fretboard. It has fine playability, the design is natural and very beautiful, i got mine with fire-like spalted maple design. Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster Spalted Maple Top HH a brief fender spalted maple telecaster review about the playability that some owners of t...

What is the first time you think about guitar sound? well, that will be a question with so many various answers. you may think about combo amps like roland jazz chorus and PEAVEY bandit 112 , or  pickups and guitar wood, but this time, I'll take the most popular one, DISTORTION... haha.. from what i learned, there are SO many types of distortion pedals, and i was really confused about this. what i can do more in colorizing my guitar sound? what exactly the distortion type when i do soloing parts? why my rhythm and riffs is too old-fashioned for my own ears?.. and there will be more questions when it comes to guitar sound. then i decided to choose one analog distortion pedal to begin with. so i choose Empress Effects Multidrive Effects Pedal (all these years I'd been using digital effects because of their easy and ready-to-use features. yes, using the presets and modify everything blindly). from this Empress Effects Multidrive simplicity(compared to digital effects, ...