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Easy Guitar Songs for Rock and Roll

November 3, 2016
Guitar Songs

Rock and roll spans from the 1950’s to present day, having influenced and made a name for countless musicians along the way. A lot has changed, but the common thread is still passion. While you’re building up that passion, you may want to check out some easy guitar songs to get you rolling.

When it comes to guitar, be as well-versed as possible and able to pull something old or new out of your bag of tricks. Rock and roll was born out of the fires of jazz, blues, and gospel music. While Elvis Presley may be know as the King of Rock and Roll, there were a few romping and stomping evangelists and delta blues crusaders who led the way. Let’s unpack our bag of must-know rock and roll easy guitar songs and see if we can help.

How to Play Acoustic Guitar the Right Way

November 2, 2016
Guitar Acoustic Beginner

Doing anything the right way is subject to other things like your style, culture, or a variety of other things. Knowing that, we’ll take a general and gentle approach to how to play acoustic guitar.

You’ve got people who use flat picks, fingerpicks, fingernails, and thumbpicks. You’ve also got people who play bluegrass while others play classical, pop, country, or blues. You might say it’s all the same but it just isn’t. Bluegrassers use much bigger strings, in general, than a pop guitarist and classical players use nylon strings instead of steel strings. There are so many options and styles to playing guitar that it might be difficult to nail down one way of playing. We’ll try to do the impossible today.

Guitar Songs to Learn: Quick and Easy

November 2, 2016
Guitar Songs

We know “easy” to one guitar player might be a challenge to another. No matter where you are, there are some quick and easy guitar songs to learn.

So if you’re pre-teen to 20, you can pick up a Taylor Swift songbook and, if you learn just a few chords, pretty much play right along with the record. Especially her first and second CD as a teenager.

Truth is, there are countless songs that are just three or four chords. Once you get a dozen or so songs under your belt, you can just build on that. Start by learning your basic guitar chords. What we mean is the chords most guitarist love to play in, like D, G, C, A, and E. Any others you might use, you’d need a capo or a lot more time on the instrument.

Songs to Learn on Guitar: Progressing and Perfecting

October 26, 2016
Guitar Songs

So you’re just getting started? You’ve got your first guitar with your tuner out and you’re looking for songs to learn on guitar. Yes, it’s most important to tune your instrument. If you don’t, nothing is going to sound right to you. Get some help if you need to and get in tune.

Now, maybe this isn’t your first song at all and you’re just looking to learn something new. Great! There are some staple songs every guitarist should know how to play. From Americana classics and classic country and rock to classical, there are endless song titles to pick from and some are easy enough for a beginner.

Best Guitar Amps: A Guide and Overview

October 26, 2016
Guitar Amps

For the guitar novice, trying to pick out the best guitar amps could be like trying to pinpoint the most delicious Skittle in a 14 oz. bag. With so many options, it can be hard to know what you’re looking for.

There are small combos with 8 or 10-inch speakers, loud 1x12 combos, big 2x12 combos, 5 watt,15 watt, 50 watt etc. heads with 4x12 cabinets, 100 watt heads with 4x12 cabinets and tons more options.

So what’s a combo versus a head? In case you don’t know, a combo is an amplifier with the amp and speaker built in one cabinet. Meanwhile, a head is the amp part put into a separate unit and a speaker configuration is hooked up to the head with a speaker cable. That’s it. Now, what are the best guitar amps? Let’s look at a few of the best. There are so many.