There are three aspects of music. These are harmony, melody and rhythm. Harmony covers things such as chords and when more than two notes are being played at the same time. Melody covers riffs, lead ideas, and anything that you can hum. Rhythm is pretty self-explanatory.
Today, I want to start off a new series of my top ten tips for all the important aspects of guitar playing. Each lesson I’ll send you ten quick but very powerful tips that will help you with a specific subject so you can make improvements in this area and get past the most frustrating hurdles on the guitar. Today, it is… guitar technique.
Sugar-Mountain-Skuret-210312-03 by Markus Thorsen, licensed under (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Strumming is essential for all us guitarists. There aren’t many better sounds than that of a well strummed acoustic guitar accompanied by a soulful, engaging singer. Best of all, most simple strumming songs require only a handful of chords that once you can change between allow you to play a huge variety of songs. [Read more…]
Over the decades of rock’n’roll history there have many supergroups to be spawned from the fractured remains of many great bands. Often hugely anticipated and featuring legends of the time, many of these so-called ‘supergroups’ failed to deliver, but there were some who actually rose above the bland, ‘let’s do it for one more world tour’ attitude of some of these artists and created some music that was actually worth listening to. Check the videos below for some of these bands.
What are the top ten greatest grunge guitar riffs of all time? Well, that’s a hard question to answer but below are my 10 favourites with their videos so you can listen and enjoy the grungy, heavy, groovy, awesomeness of these fine riffs written by some of the best guitarists coming out of Seattle in the early 90’s.