Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Most western music is built using scales and arpeggios. There are two basic pattern types: major and minor. By learning to play them, you improve your finger strength and develop an understanding of the different key signatures. You’ll find learning a song gets a lot quicker once … Continue reading Running and jumping – scales and arpeggios
TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at How to Switch Chords Quickly on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. All beginner guitarists struggle with switching between chords at first, thats part of the learning curve. Here are some tips on the subject, but make sure you watch our video lesson on how to change between guitar chords, where … Continue reading How to Switch Chords Quickly
TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at Top Guitar Books for Beginners and Beyond in 2020 on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. Learning to play the guitar from beginner guitar books is still huge in 2020, despite the availability of the more modern form of learning guitar, online video tutorials. My vote for best cover! The “learn guitar books” … Continue reading Top Guitar Books for Beginners and Beyond in 2020
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on September 25, 2020 by Klaus Crow When you learn your first scales you usually start with two-octave scales, because they span all six strings of the guitar. You play from the Low E-string all the way up to the high e-string. That’s great! It’s important you learn the two-octave scales inside … Continue reading Effective One-Octave Major Scales and Why! Part I
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Practicing with proper piano technique can be a difficult habit to develop. But, once you get in the groove of paying attention to your hands, posture, breathing, and tension level your progress on the piano will skyrocket! Once you learn to relax, your hands will fly over … Continue reading Why is technique so important when playing the piano?
TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at Learn to Read Guitar Tabs (Tablature) on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. Lots of my old and new students have been asking about guitar tabs, since they are so freely available on the Internet, so today I thought I would post you some pointers on how you can use tabs … Continue reading Learn to Read Guitar Tabs (Tablature)
TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at Alternate Picking Tips on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. One of the most important and useful lead guitar technique beginner guitarists must learn at an early stage is alternate picking. Most beginners tend to pick the strings only downwards, which is a bad habit to get used to, and if … Continue reading Alternate Picking Tips
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips It’s a common misconception that your ability to learn new things and pick up new skills is truncated, diminished, or otherwise compromised once you reach adulthood. You hear about classical and pop musicians getting their start on the piano at age three or five or seven and … Continue reading Learning piano as an adult: a guide
Hold to Hold a Guitar Pick – TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at How to Hold a Guitar Pick on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. Learning how to hold the guitar pick correctly is one of the first things you should learn when you decide to learn the guitar. If you learn it well in the … Continue reading How to Hold a Guitar Pick
TheGuitarLesson.com This post appeared first at Too old to learn guitar at 30? 40? 50? 60? Think again! on TheGuitarLesson.com, thanks for reading. Undoubtedly some of the most frequent letters I get here at TheGuitarLesson.com are from people asking whether they are too old to learn guitar. In fact, the “Am I too old to … Continue reading Too old to learn guitar at 30? 40? 50? 60? Think again!
