by Jo Bywater | Mar 9, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution released in the late 80s is a well requested song for acoustic guitar strummers. Tracy Chapman has taken 4 chords, repeated them in the same order throughout the song and with a bit of an interesting strumming pattern created...
by Jo Bywater | Mar 2, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons
Having a few 3 chord songs under your belt is a great way to build up your strumming repertoire without over complicating things. Wicked Game by Chris Isaak is a beautiful and haunting song that’s lovely to sing along to. We have 3 chords and 2 strumming...
by Jo Bywater | Feb 22, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons
A chord box, also known as a chord diagram or a chord chart is a simple line picture of the guitar fretboard which shows us which frets we need to put our fingers on and which strings we need to strum in order to play a chord. You’ll see guitar chords...
by Jo Bywater | Feb 15, 2024 | Children's Guitar Lessons, Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons
Some of the first basic open chords you would traditionally learn on guitar may be too much of a stretch and require more strength than you have as a total beginner. This includes children and adults. Maybe you have smaller hands, maybe your mobility isn’t great but...
by Jo Bywater | Feb 3, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Music Theory, Online Guitar Lessons
The open E minor Pentatonic is one of the scales I find the most valuable to learn as a beginner. It’s a very common and versatile scale used for solos, riffs and licks. it’s easy to remember, an invaluable shape to know. It can help develop your fretboard...
