Ricky Sharples

Acoustic guitars are great to play and very family- and neighbor-friendly but beginner acoustic guitar players need to be careful when buying their first instrument. This article covers the main points you need to think about as a beginner guitar buyer.

If you have started composing your own guitar music you are probably looking around for some way to write your own tabs. There are programs that generate guitar tab and even play them for you as MIDI files.

In your transformation from a guitar enthusiast to a guitar player you need to acquire some knowledge. Becoming an authority on the guitar and guitar music is not stricly necessary in order to learn how to play the guitar but this knowledge will help you on the way to finding your direction as a guitar player.

Muscle memory is a term we use to describe the process our body uses to learn new skills. So as guitar players we can improve the learning process by taking a special kind of care when we practice with our guitars.

This article is for beginner guitar players who want to sort out the confusion they feel when they are confronted with guitar tabs. The notes on the guitar tab are not hard to learn once you learn the basic principles involved.

Popular acoustic guitar songs do not always start out being acoustic or popular. It takes a guitar player or singer who can bring something special to make the song appeal to an audience.

Despite the growth of many other guitar styles over the years, Spanish guitar music still has a hold on music lovers' imaginations. If you have some experience as a guitar player and want to try your hand at playing Spanish guitar, this article will help you with the names of some artists who are renowned for their interpretations of Spanish music.

If you are a country music fan who wants to learn to play your favorite songs, this article recommends some great sources of tab for country guitar music. Whether you just want to strum along to cowboy songs or if you want to learn some nifty guitar licks. you will find what you need here.

If you want to learn fingerpicking guitar, this article will give you a head start. This little essay gives you some direction in what to look for in fingerstyle guitar learning material plus brief reviews of a couple of the best fingerpicking guitar tutors available.

This article discusses the main challenges in guitar chord playing. The road to becoming a guitarist is paved with slow, careful chord change practice, but there are one or two decisions you will need to know about in order to establish what kind of a guitarist you want to be.

Whether you are a country music fan or not the energy and excitement in many country music guitar solos is undeniable. Here are a few tips on who the great country guitar players are, how they get their sound, and how to learn to play like them.

This is a little essay on the joys and opportunities available to finger picking guitar players. You will learn how to make a simple beginning at adding value to your guitar work by adding some simple finger picking.

Guitar scales are just one elment of Bluegrass music. But if you are a guitar player, your understanding and enjoyment of the music begins in the musical scales.

Guitar Pro and other computer programs for writing and editing tab are valuable tools for guitarists. Here is a survey of the most popular guitar tab software programs.

If you enjoy listening to blues music played by a slide guitarist, you will enjoy this essay on the pioneers and the techniques of blues slide guitar.

To learn to play country guitar music properly you need to understand its history and its reason for being. There are some songs you can learn from tabs that really give you a feel for country music.

Guitar effects software has been around for a while now but every new wave of guitarists needs to go looking for the best solution to their mind-blowing needs. This article looks at the best free and paid guitar effects.

The bass guitar is like a new kind of animal that we do not know how to care for. To make the beast more accessible we can learn the simplicity behind learning the bass guitar notes.

Nobody listens to acoustic guitar solos anymore but we still love to hear the music wrung from the heart of the acoustic guitar. This article is to aquaint guitarists with the deep tradition behind the most popular instrument in the world.

Humidity in the air mixed with oil and stuff off your fingers gets to your guitar strings, deadens the sound and makes your fingers feel like they are touching really hard earthworms.

As guitarists we learn about chord progressions without learning the basic ideas behind them. This article explains why songs sound the way they do.

Guitar effects software has been around for a while now but every new wave of guitarists needs to go looking for the best solution to their mind-blowing needs. This article looks at the best free and paid guitar effects.

Like puppies and alligators, guitars are popular Christmas gifts. If you have been favored with a new guitar, here is a guide to finding lessons online.

Guitar Pro and other computer programs for writing and editing tab are valuable tools for guitarists. Here is a survey of the most popular guitar tab software programs.

Most rock fans are not aware of rhythm guitar as an artform. This article prepares the way for aspiring guitarists who believe it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that . . . er, rhythm.

Easy guitar tabs are very handy to help new guitar students begin to emerge as fully fledged guitarists. So let's take a look at which songs are most easy to produce as guitar tabs.

Guitar tab is an easy way to start reading and playing guitar music quickly. Unfortunately it looks a bit intimidating to fledgling guitarists so this essay will help you make sense of all the marks on the page.

If you think learning to play the guitar is just a matter of going to your local music teacher, think again. Something as challenging and rewarding as learning guitar is never that simple. There are many options available now we have the internet, and you might be surprised how well your musical tastes are catered to.

If you have invested some time learning the basic classical guitar techniques, you will need to start looking for a guitar that helps you express your new found musical ideas.

Whether bass or guitar is harder to play is a common question for new guitarists. Taking this question seriously can lead to some interesting musical avenues to explore.