Monthly Archives: September 2008

Let’s wrap up our work with the traditional song, “Streets of Laredo,” one that some of you may recognize from Johnny Cash’s “American Recordings IV.”

We’re continuing our lesson series Playing Guitar by Ear. We started looking at near-rules that help you massively in learning to play guitar by ear, in the last installment. This time, more near-rules. Almost rule number next: sing. After you listen, and believe you have the melody in your head, sing. You don’t need any [...]

We’re continuing our lesson series Playing Guitar by Ear, which is geared to newbies. Newbies to both guitar and playing by ear. We’re getting ready to actually play a melody by ear – on a piano. Remember from the last issue (Portable Music Maker) that learning to play by ear on the piano is a [...]

Our newsletter for September 15, 2008 talks about the Nashville Music Scene and tells you a few ways you can help out Guitar Noise with donations and patronage.

In this podcast we’ll look at creating walking bass lines from D to G chords. We’ll also start to tackle the “chorus” section of this song.

Wonderful melodic finger style guitar from someone who’s played with artists as diverse as Chet Atkins and the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra.

Guitarists nowadays think of rhythm in terms of “up” and “down,” the motions of strumming, instead of thinking of rhythm in much simpler terms – numbers and counting. In this, the first of a series of four articles, we begin to hone our strumming techniques so that any rhythmic pattern will be within our grasp.

Last time out we sampled the different flavors the major and minor pentatonic scales offered us as tools for soloing over blues progressions. While each had its owns merits, we can create an even more tasteful (not to mention useful) solo when we combine the major scale with the blue note elements of its own minor pentatonic. Come listen!

We’re continuing the series of lessons that gets us started playing guitar by ear. Last time, we started talking about why the guitar is not the best instrument to begin learning to play by ear with. And the point of illustrating that is to help you understand that, when you’re struggling to play guitar by [...]

Guitar Noise Newsletter for September 1, 2008 with news about the latest podcast, a new feature and a couple of event announcements. Written by David Hodge.

In this podcast we’ll start with a basic ”bass / strum” in 3/4 timing and then add some fancier work to both the bass and the strumming.