Using scales to make music is more than just choosing the right one. But how does one go about practicing scales, and should you bother? Using my favourite analogy, if music is a language then scales ...

Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day. Playing music is pretty much always ...

(CNN) -- If you can click a mouse, you can strum a guitar. Learning to play a musical instrument without a teacher comes easy on the Internet, where self-taught guitar students can follow a string of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. And if the idea of learning a scale is off-putting, step this way – we can do it through chord ...

Learning to play guitar is hard. Though there's no effective replacement for many of hours of repetitive practice, today's six-string students do have numerous teaching aids to help make the learning ...

Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...

WHAT'S INSIDE GUITAR SCALES YOU CAN USE? Created by GMI - Guitar & Music Institute lead tutor Ged Brockie, Guitar Scales You Can Use is a full colour publication which distils his thirty five year ...

Let's say you want to learn to play guitar — but you don't have the time or money for lessons. Why not try YouTube? A number of people teach guitar on the video-sharing Web site, offering lessons for ...

If you’re learning to play the guitar, then you will constantly be looking up two things: Scales and chords. After you get a bit further into it, you’ll add arpeggios to that list. And you will keep ...