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Archive for July 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

If you're just starting out with guitar, the best thing you can do is grab some early success to put wind in your sails. Knowing a some notes and their names useful, but early on, what you need most is courage and motivation to keep going.So my suggestion? Learn some easy guitar songs. It's a win-win situation because you get some gratification and those who will [...]

Easy Songs for Guitars

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

I recently found a couple videos on Youtube that claimed to list the "Top 10" and "Top 25" Guitar solos in order of "topness".The trouble was... I could never agree to them. MY LIST is different! My age (52), my experience as a songwriter, and of course my personal tastes demand of me that I engage in a "throw down" with these list makers, and present my own list [...]

Is there a REAL Top-10 Guitar Solos?

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Music and Math are attached at the hip it seems. Pitch frequencies are certainly expressed in the purest of math terms. And the shorthand system for pitches and their relationships is also expressed by the very simple math of what we call "intervals".There is an entire system called the "Nashville Numbers" that assign the numbers 1 thru 7 to the notes of a major [...]

Thinking in Intervals vs Thinking in Notes

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