Guitar Learning Blog

this was my promise a year ago and this time, i will fulfill it. yes, uploading videos to YouTube. i have to admit, that saving money for this blog purposes isn't easy. but whatever. i just bought a camcorder yesterday and i think it is a great camcorder. what do you say if i bought a samson's ZOOM Q3HD for this? haha. yes, as expected, this camcorder represents the fulfillment of musicians' needs. it has a great audio recorder and the video format is in HD. I've read about it and it doesn't support capture still images and we can't use it as external camera device for laptops, still all you need is a bright studio to get your best image captured by it while you need minimum enhancement for audio since this camcorder are meant for best audio recording. my first tryout stuff for my first video is a Yamaha APX 500 II acoustic electric guitar . and i like the result. the audio is astonishing, while unfortunately i couldn't get the best visual shot becaus...

Have you ever consider using DI box for your live performances, or your recordings? what is EXACTLY a DI Box anyway? does it really a tool for better sound output? all these questions are being asked around here and there, but actually, for me, i can't hear the differences,at least, not with passive DI box. okay, so what's the point in this post anyway? well, i tried to read and summarized all sources i can get which brought me to some conclusions. yes... (one of stupid things I've done is writing something i don't actually know, but here it is)  DI box is important it regains the lost signal of your guitar sound. it converts high-impedance , line level, unbalanced output guitar signal to a low-impedance microphone level balanced input to mixers. the low impedance allows the signal to be sent over long cable runs with significantly less signal loss. .... the lower impedance (around 600 ohms is normal) allows an insignificant load to the input of a mixing con...

Happy New Year 2014! yes, i congratulate all of guitarists who still fight for their music until today, i hope all of you stand still with me. Well, this post will be the continuation for my post: Fun in basic, Major Chords ,  and now is about the minor chords on guitar. FYI: these minor chords follow the natural minor scales, so as you can see the A natural minor scale notes are A(1) - B(2) - C( ♭ 3) - D(4) - E(5) - F( ♭ 6) - G( ♭ 7) - A(higher octave) and its interval is w-h-w-w-h-w (w = wholenote, h = halfnote) Basically Minor chords consist the root, the flat-third and the fifth note. if you have an A minor chord, that would be A as the first note (root),  C as the flat-third note( ♭ 3rd), and E as the fifth note. A  (root),  C( ♭ 3rd), and E (5th)  so, what you have to do next to get B minor chords is write down the B natural minor scale which is B(1) - C#(2) - D( ♭ 3) - E(4) - F#(5) - G( ♭ 6) - A( ♭ 7) - B, see the bold font, and you'll get ...

Today is a cloudy day and i can't get bright picture of silver sparkle of my new guitar (but it's okay though, my old cellphone camera can handle this), oh yes it's a Gretsch guitar. The Gretsch G5236 electromatic pro jet 125th anniversary with silver sparkle finishing. It's a beautiful pre-owned guitar with nice deal, no scratch and made in China. here are bunch of pictures about it: Gretsch G5236 electromatic pro jet 125th anniversary Gretsch G5236 electromatic pro jet 125th anniversary Gretsch G5236 electromatic pro jet 125th anniversary And I like it!! this electromatic pro jet defines overdrive and distortion effects in wide range although it seems i'll never get tele twang sound or strat glassy tone from it (of course, it's a Gretsch!). it has unique sound, yes that great Gretsch sound does exist. Its pickups and chambered body deliver tones nicely through amps, even direct input to mixer. Gretsch G5236 electromatic pro jet 125th an...

last week i got lucky. my friend lent me his Fender Stratocaster Highway One and it was my valuable moment of learning guitar characteristic. stratocaster has my respect because of its tone originality and how many songs made with this guitar, also how far the guitar players has become legends with this guitar existence. you can easily find names, let's say yngwie malmsteen, richie sambora, eric clapton and many more use the stratocaster as their main guitar, or using stratocaster as their tool of exploration (see a Frankenstrat ) you might be one of them. a stratocaster lover. i can't say I'm in it, but actually right now I'm still trying to get which series that suits me. and i got a milestone to start with, a Fender Stratocaster Highway One USA made, year 2002 i guess. here are the pics (it's relic!) : what i got from this guitar so far? well, i can't say i'm in love with this one. it was about againsts my guitar playing style. the vol...

just few days ago i posted about EVH's Frankenstrat and today i found that one of my friend is Eddie's big fan (he's not a guitarist, he's a keyboardist). i never knew that until i saw him with his motorbike today. An EVH frankenstrat theme motorcycle and it's cute!. here I share its pic:   am I right or what? i saw a lot of people have similar ideas about getting inspired by their idols. Actually it's the best idea so far in learning guitar. get inspired by your favorite guitarists. you can start with almost everything and every element of this "get inspired" idea will help you in finding your guitar playing identity. surely you know what I'm talking about now isn't about being a copycat, while actually it is fun when we can do our guitar idol licks and show them off :D well, since I'm a guitar learner, and i guess I'm a novice, so there's nothing more i can talk about this getting inspired idea. all i can do is sharing mo...

The standard Guitar tunings assign the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and high E to the open strings of guitars. By convention, the notes are ordered from lowest to highest. These particular pitches are used by the majority of guitarists. why? Standard Guitar tuning made our left hand moves easily to play scales and chords with simple fingering logic. is there the best way of tuning your guitar in standard tuning? yes, and probably there are several ways in tuning your guitar. basically EADGBE tuning notes are from low-to-high note order, WHILE the guitar strings order starts from the thinnest string as first string, so we can see them like this: - 1st String is high E note(e), which its Scientific pitch notation is E4 and its frequency is 329.63 Hz - 2nd String  is  B note (B), which its Scientific pitch notation is B3 and its frequency is 246.94 Hz - 3rd String  is G note (G), which its Scientific pitch notation is G3 and its frequency is 196.00 Hz - 4th Stri...