Learning guitar chord playing is not going to be easy. But it will be a relatively short-term ordeal with great rewards at the end. There are some questions that learner guitar chord players are faced with that should be mentioned right at the start so you can get some understanding of the physical problems involved with guitar playing.
One question that confronts guitar students is where to place your left thumb when playing chords. Some guitar styles call for the sixth string to be fretted with the thumb. This adds a certain amount of versatility to your guitar playing but at the same time, there are some chords that are most easily played using the so-called “classical” position with the thumb placed at the center of the back of the guitar neck.
The classical position is really the only one you can use with the wider neck of the nylon string guitar. Steel string acoustics and electric guitars have thin necks that accommodate hooking the thumb over the ...keep reading
To help you know whether or not you should use a vocal coach, let’s define their duties: A vocal coach is a music teacher who instructs singers on how to improve their singing technique, take care of and develop their voice, and prepare for the performance of a song or other work.
Vocal coaches are used in both classical music and in popular music styles such as rock and gospel. While some vocal coaches provide a range of instruction on singing techniques, others specialize in areas such as breathing techniques or diction and pronunciation.
They may give private music lessons to singers, or they may coach singers who are rehearsing on stage, or who are singing during a recording session. Lessons might be held in a studio, a school, at the voice teacher’s home or perhaps even at your home (for which you should expect to pay more).
Vocal coaches are great for being objective observers, and since they know music, they’ll be more than willing to ...keep reading
The increasing desire for fame and fortune are driving many of today’s young aspiring hip hop artists. Innocent and pure at first, many hip hop artists claim that they do it for the love of the music and not for the fame and money. However, only a handful of them actually pull off this simple task. As one’s fame and fortune rise, these superstars become distracted from their “roots,” the real reason why they are in the business. Perhaps it was a facade from the start, but we will give them the benefit of the doubt.
This article will provide a quick run down of the rise and fall of two of the best know hip hop rap artist in their time; MC Hammer in the late 1980s to the early 1990s and DMX from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. As the saying goes, “what goes up, must come down.” How fast one comes down and how one comes down from their stardom solely depends on the day-to-day decisions of the artist.
Let’s take a moment to consider…“Stop! Hammer ...keep reading
There are many different methods out there on how to string a guitar. I’m sure a lot of them work fine. There’s one method I’ve learned that is the simplest and most effective method I have seen, that doesn’t require pointless wrapping and wrapping of the sometimes too short strings around the tuner for it to work.
The basis of this is taking the string, and trapping it tautly under itself when you turn the tuner tab, trapping it in place.
First off I recommend after removing your old strings, to give your guitar a good cleaning as it can build up dust and gunk in little nooks and crannies that are unreachable when the strings are mounted. Once this is done set the tuner pin (as I will refer to it as; the vertical pin that has the hole in it to put the string through) parallel with the guitar neck.
Place the string through the tuner pin. Grab the excess that is sticking out the end of the head of the guitar tautly, and pull it around a ...keep reading