http://www.guitarbeginners.com Guitar & music lessons for absolute beginners and beyond Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:15:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:00:19 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/?p=15 To bar means to press several strings, on a single fret, with only one finger. Barre chords will always be indicated by the letter C followed by a Roman numeral to indicate the fret where the bar occurs (ie C III represents a bar on the 3rd fret). These exercises are graded by order of difficulty. Start with the first exercise and do not pass onto the next one until you play it correctly. The mastering of the barre chord requires a little perseverance...]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/videos/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/videos/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 11:51:52 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/videos/ How to play the guitar – CD-ROM #1 for Absolute Beginners: (1) Chromatism in arpeggios, for acoustic guitar & (2) E Blues with its introduction, for electric guitar. How to play the guitar – CD-ROM #2 for beginner to intermediate level: (1) Spanish Hour, for acoustic guitar & (2) E Blues #3 for electric guitar. [...]]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/videos/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:15:22 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/ SCHEDULING YOUR WORK: As usual, to begin with, practise the first measure: Practise the fingerings of the left hand without the rhythm. Introduce the correct picking directions (be careful the strokes are not systematically alternated). Then, play the whole song with the indicated rhythm. Having done this, train yourself to play the pattern in measure [...]]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/shuffle-boogie-to-be-played-with-a-pick-or-the-fingers-pima/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/shuffle-boogie-to-be-played-with-a-pick-or-the-fingers-pima/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:19:07 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/?p=17 There are two possibilities with regard to the technique used for the right hand: you can either use your thumb for the bass and your fore finger and middle finger for the treble strings, OR you can use the pick to play down strokes on the bass and up strokes on the treble. For the [...]]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/shuffle-boogie-to-be-played-with-a-pick-or-the-fingers-pima/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-pieces-teleman-a-major-sonata-second-guitar/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-pieces-teleman-a-major-sonata-second-guitar/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:16 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/?p=20 If you want to listen to the duet, download “Classical pieces for guitar – Vol I”. This is the second guitar. Click here to see the first guitar.]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-pieces-teleman-a-major-sonata-second-guitar/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-duet-teleman-a-major-sonata-first-guitar/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-duet-teleman-a-major-sonata-first-guitar/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:41:12 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/?p=19 If you want to listen to the duet, download “Classical pieces for guitar – Vol I”. This is the first guitar. Click here to see the second guitar.]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/classical-duet-teleman-a-major-sonata-first-guitar/feed/ 0