June 15, 2010
- Guitar Scales - 4 Tips To Mastering Guitar Scales
Would you like to improve your guitar playing? Practicing with guitar scales is a fruitful and beneficial practice. Here are 4 tips that can help you play scales excellently.
The first tip is practicing. You need to spent time with the instrument to improve your playing. Use scales to begin you time of practice. It helps [...]
May 29, 2010
- 7 Tips on Changing Guitar Chords Faster
When you are first learning to play the guitar, it usually takes a while to change the chords. Here are some tips to help you change to new chords much faster. Mastering this skill will make it easier to play your worship songs.
1. Memorize the chord forms in the worship song you are trying to [...]
June 18, 2009
- Getting Clean Notes On Your Guitar
How To Get Clean Guitar Notes and Chords
Here are a few tips to getting a clean chords on your guitar, so your worship songs sound great
1. Trim your left-hand fingernails. If you have nails it’s impossible to hold the strings down cleanly.
2. Hold a string down with the tip, or pad, of your finger right [...]
May 23, 2008
- How To Practice The Guitar
Christian Guitar Practice - Pray First
The exciting difference between just practicing the guitar and using it as a tool for worshipping an Awesome God is that our purpose and focus shifts.
It's no longer just you learning to play the guitar. When you as God to help you, He can give you insights and help. You [...]
April 24, 2008
- Guitar Scales You Can Play
A wonderful way to improve your playing is by practicing scales. This is a video that will show you how to play a couple 'C' scales. The first if just one octave. Everyone can start with this one. When you can play it with ease, try the second scale with two octaves. If you would [...]
January 3, 2007
- Sore Finger Solutions
One of the topics of high interest last year in the Newsletters was finding solutions to sore fingers. I had sent suggestions in a newsletter and was surprised to hear responses from the readers of solutions I had never heard of. Thought it would be helpful to post them here for future readers and as [...]
October 7, 2005
- Left-hand Exercise
Here's an excellent exercise for your left-hand. It's one I used a lot with my students. This is a perfect exercise to use as a 'warm-up' before you play songs on the guitar. Just click the image below and that will open up a new URL which contains the video.