Guitar Lesson Blog

Guitar Repair and Upgrade Guide

2010-09-14T15:31:00.000-07:00

Have been busy for a while but back and looking to improve the web site. After some research noticed lots of guitar or music websites offer chords, scales, tabs, etc... and that was why i decided to try and introduce exercises, riffs, etc...

Thought a good guitar resource for Guitar and song would be a section where there are some examples of guitar repairs, upgrades, and the basics like changing strings, etc...

Will start work on it soon but if anybody has any requests or questions just add a comment.

Guitar for Beginners

2010-05-31T16:24:00.000-07:00

It's always difficult starting something new especially a musical instrument. I started over twenty years ago and because I was self taught and didn't take any lessons it has always been difficult but very rewarding.

That is why I started my own site guitar and song to post up lessons, tips, guitar tabs and exercises that I have learned over the years that others might get some use from too. It also gave me a platform to post my own songs that I had written and recorded over the years at home.

Next was the guitar forum and I aimed that at beginners as I found during my time taking part in some other guitar forums some members didn't have much time for the beginner. It's now just a case of getting members.

New Forum!!!

2010-04-19T16:36:00.000-07:00

Not been very active on my blog for some time but I have been setting up a Beginners Guitar Forum on my site. It is starting to grow very very slowly but I know these things can take time. It is aimed at the beginner but all welcome as we need experienced guitarists to help the beginners with questions.

Hope you can take a look its ats at

http://www.guitarandsong.com/forum/

Guitar Exercise and Riffs Up and Running

2010-03-28T15:40:00.000-07:00

Finally made a start on all topics in the Guitar Tabs section of my site. I have added a good few warm-up exersices on the Exercise section and made a start on the guitar riffs section with a smoke on the water style riff.

Reviews, Reviews , Reviews,

2010-03-19T17:51:00.000-07:00

Finally got over the problems of SPAM on my review section of my site. Had to add captcha to it but worth it. Starting to get some reviews now but very slow, need some more ideas.

The guitar scale tabs and guitar chord tabs are coming along nicely. I was away the past few weeks so unable to update it but back now and added a few more guitar tabs for scales and chords.

The guitar tabs for some useful exercises is my next move. I have about five guitar exercises now and discovered some more useful ones when I was away so will post them up soon.

Guitar Reviews and New Song Tab

2010-02-27T16:50:00.000-08:00

Just finished the first part of my review section to my site. Would like to thank Martin, Alfie L and Ian Smith for their reviews the first of many on the site. It took a bit of time to learn the php code to get the review submission part working but its working to a degree at the moment. It’s very basic but its work in progress and hopefully I can make the search feature a little better and should make it so you can upload images of the item being reviewed.

I have also added my version of Wish You Were Here song tab with the intro solo. It’s a good song for beginners and I love playing it as a warm up when I practice.

2010-02-10T16:15:00.000-08:00

Finally got my chords updated and some more scales added. Been working on a review section to my site where visitors can add reviews about guitar equipment like guitar amps, guitars, effects and recording equipment. Hope the database will fill up and it can be somewhere for guitarists to see the reviews of other guitar players.

New Guitar Videos

2010-01-24T16:18:00.000-08:00

I have added some new guitar videos to my site on you tube. Still new to this but I am finding the process slightly easier now. I have added The Beales Let It Be and Green Days Good Riddance to my Guitar Video section. Take a look as I have also got the Guitar Tabs for these songs on my site.

Collection of Guitar Chords and Scales

2010-01-18T15:49:00.000-08:00

Have finally started uploading guitar chords and scales to my website. I have added a chord chart that will be my starting point o help with song keys from chords to help with modes and scale that can be played over the song in question.

I have also uploaded a good few chords now. Only the basic popular ones for now but this will grow over time.

To begin writing songs based on chord progressions, you need to understand that each key has a series of chords that belong to it and are referred to as a key's 'diatonic chords'. What follows is an explanation of how to find out which chords belong to which key.

A major scale is derived from a progression of whole or half steps on the chromatic scale. The major scale goes like this
Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half

The C Major Chord Progression

The best scale to start with is probably the C Maj scale (as it does not have any sharps or flats)
It would go like this:
Cmaj - Dmin - Emin - Fmaj - Gmaj - Amin - B diminished

Above are chords in the key of C major. We arrived at these chords by beginning with a C major scale, and using the the major progression we saw above Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half .

Here is what you should try to bring away from the above:
In every major key, there are seven different chords. The order of these chords are:
major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, and diminished.
The order is the same for whichever major key you are in. the space between each of these chords is as follows:
Between chords 1 and 2: tone or whole, 2 and 3: tone or whole, 3 and 4: semitone or half, 4 and 5: tone or whole, 5 and 6: tone or whole, 6 and 7: tone or whole, 7 and 1: semitone or half
and we are now back to where we started.

Chord Chart

2010-01-08T18:19:00.000-08:00

Been busy trying to think of a good idea for my site. One thing recently I learned was how to determine the key of a song and what modes or scales would be good to play or improvise over a song.

I have added a chord section to my site and will eventually add as many chords as I can think of but first I thought it would be good to show how songs are put together in a key and what chords are used. Also if you have the chords or music for a song how with the use of a chord chart you can determine the key of the song.

With this you are able to find out what scales or mode you can use for improvising, riffs, runs or soloing.

It is becoming a big job but worth it. If you take a look please contact me if you see any errors or things you think I haven't explained properly at Guitar Chords Page

New Design For My Site

2010-01-02T17:27:00.000-08:00

Well its a new year and thought I would start using some of the feedback and info I have learned over the past few months to update my web site. Nearly finished with the new design and have tidied up my html code.

Hope I haven't lost to many visitors as I have not updated the content much, but I was given some feedback on guitar forum sites and I've added achord section to the site.

Happy New Year.

Forum Up and Going

2009-12-21T15:36:00.000-08:00

Finally got a basic layout to my forum. Its very new and I'm wondering how to get members? Check it out at http://www.guitarandsong.com/forums/

New Guitar and Song Forum

2009-12-17T17:16:00.000-08:00

Just completed the first stages of my forum. I've used phpbb to create a forum page on my site its at http://www.guitarandson.com/forums/
I will be trying to organise it a bit better but I'm pleased with it so far.
Just hope I get some members!

Review of the Behringer NR-100

2009-12-15T15:33:00.000-08:00

Started to work on my site and songs again. Reviewed a pedal I got a few months ago now the behringer NR-100. Its a noise reduction pedal and sits at the end of my effect chain.

Started working on a new song also. I recorded a basic acoustic part and wrote down some lyrics.

Been Very Busy.

2009-12-14T15:11:00.000-08:00

Sorry not much activity on the blog or website been very busy with work.

Also might be doing some guitar rate articles for Songstuff their forum is very good if you write your own material. Their link is http://forums.songstuff.com/index

Will be adding some new exercises very soon.

Added a New Hub

2009-12-11T18:21:00.000-08:00

Just added a new hub to HubPages. Its called Writing a Song It describes how I wrote my first song and what methods I used.

I even stuck my video of me playing the godfather theme on it.

Quite like hub pages but takes a bit of time.

New Exercise

2009-12-09T14:48:00.000-08:00

Ever strugglred with certain chord changes? Well I have and recently a friend showed me an exercise he does to improve his changes with difficult chords.

Do you have problems with your third and fourth fingers when fingering chords? Some chord changes can be quite difficult and I find that my third finger does not move on its own very well, especially when the fourth finger is fretted, they both try to move.

I've added a new exercise to my site guitar exercise page Exercises for the Guitar

Guitar and Song Site Active

2009-12-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

Finally my website is up and running. I have added all of my songs to the site. They have been written and recorded over the past year. My site also covers the guitar and I have added a few pages like exercises, tabs and lessons and reviews. Its not complete but there is a lot to add and its a start. I have some exercises to help with speed and I have added some easy song tabs for people to learn.

I decided to add a video page and at present I have one video of me playing the Godfather theme called Speak Softly my Love.