Guitar Scales

Guitar Scales

Guitar scale means a guitar note sequence mentioned earlier post. I think you try it and practice them. Guitar scales are very important for to be a good guitar player. Now I give the link of two sites to build your guitar scale ability. In this site we can change main note and try the scale. Enjoy and practice this.



http://www.chordbook.com/guitarscales.php


And also try this site.


http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php

Guitar Chords Basic

Guitar chords mean playing other than one note. It means make tones other than one string. Simply guitar chord is a collection of notes that create according it's main guitar scale. These notes are created using the guitar scale notes.

For an example:

"C Major chord" creates using "C", "E", "G" notes.
"C Minor chord" creates using "C","Eb","G" notes.

Basically chords divided into two main categories. They are MAJOR CHORDS and MINOR CHORDS.

Major Chords:

Major chord is a main category of music. Usually major chords use to create a happy noise. It means when we feel happy any part of a music, that time we use major chords. Major chords create according the formula below.

Main note + 5th semitone + 8th semi tone

Example:

C Major chord = C + 5th semitone + 8th semitone

=C E G  


Try to create other chords using following formula.

Minor Chords:

Minor chord also a main category of music chords. Usually minor chords use to create a sad feeling. When we want to play a sad music part that time we use minor chords. Minor chords create according the formula below.

Main note + 4th semitone + 8th semi tone

 Example:

C Minor chord= C + 4th semitone + 8th semitone

=C Eb G

Try to create other minor chords using following formula.

I will post a correct table of major chords and minor chords in a later post. Try this and check if it is correct or wrong.

            
 

Guitar Picking

Guitar Picking is very important to play guitar well. Using correct guitar picking technique increase picking speed and picking hard. Picking hard useful to make tone quality. And speed picking is useful to play guitar well. Guitar pick means what we use to touch a guitar string. Generally it made by Nylon mixed plastic.

                    

Here is sample guitar picks. We can select a correct guitar pick using it thickness. Guitar pick thickness measure in millimeters(mm). Generally we use 60mm pick to play acoustic guitar. 

Correct guitar pick holding

Correct pick holding technique

  You can use correct pick holding as images below.



Correct guitar picking technique is picking up and down. Picking up and down increase picking speed. Using metronome is very important to increase correct picking and correct speed of guitar picking.