Birth name: Jack Johnson Born: May 18, 1945, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. Years active: 1999- Official site: www.jackjohnsonmusic.com Jack Johnson is a singer/songwriter/surfer/environmentalist and a father of 3. His main genre is acoustic soft rock, and he plays it in a really nice, mellow sort of way. His music is unique in that he mixes a wide variety of…
Birth name: Johnny Allen Hendrix Born: November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington, US Died: September 18, 1970 (age 27) Years active: 1960-1970 Official site: http://www.jimihendrix.com/ Jimi Hendrix is considered, by many, to have been one of the best guitar players of all time. He learned to play guitar as a teenager and grew up to become a…
Birth name: Riley B. King Born: September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA Died: May 15, 2015 (age 89) Years active: 1948 – 2015 Official site: http://www.bbking.com The legendary B.B. King is unquestionably the King of the Blues. He is one of the most important electric guitarists of the last 50 years, shaping music as we…
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String bending is an essential part of playing lead guitar, and is a must know if you want to play great solos. It gives added texture and color, and gives more freedom on the fretboard. You may want to watch our video guitar lesson on string bending, it will be very useful. How to Do a…
The tremolo picking style (also called scratch guitar) is nothing else, but alternate picking the string really, really fast. Heavy metal guitarists use it often, since it has a rather aggressive, harsh sound and feel to it. Even though it looks and sounds fairly simple, it’s not. Tremolo picking requires great accuracy, pluck control, timing,…
Once you know your basic beginner’s chords, you’ll want to learn how to strum chords. This is the point where you actually start making real music, and you’ll see that strumming the chords you’ve learned is relatively easy. Actually, if you know 3-5 chords, you know how to change between them, and you learn how…
Fingerpicking the guitar is a must-know for any guitarist, and is a technique the beginner guitar student should familiarize himself/herself with right at the beginning of learning how to play the guitar. Amazing melodies can be achieved by fingerpicking the guitar, you just have to get your fingers used to plucking individual strings. It gets easier with…
First of all, a shocker: power chords are not real chords! A power chord is, in fact, a diad, which is 2 notes played together. Guitar power chords are very versatile since the shape can be moved all over the fretboard, as with bar chords. Power chords are mostly played on electric guitars under distortion….
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