Monthly Archives: December 2008

In this this lesson we’ll learn a Drop D tuning arrangement of the perennial New Year’s Eve standard, Auld Lang Syne.

It’s the end of another year and time to take down the Christmas lights again. I want to welcome all the new readers who found us during the past year. We hope you’ll be with us for a long time to come and stay involved with guitar and music. The time you spend on the [...]

Here’s a very easy chord melody arrangement of the popular Christmas carol Joy to the World in double drop D tuning. Enjoy this familiar tune in a new way.

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Knowing a single major scale opens the world of modal soloing to you, if you know how to read the signs. We’ll take a look at how to recognize when to use the Dorian scale, and also take a moment or two to compare and contrast it with the minor pentatonic scale.

This is a traditional French carol, arranged so we can review some of our recent lessons on bass lines and Travis style finger picking.

This lesson is a simple DADGAD arrangement of a very well-known, traditional French Christmas Carol titled Il Est Né, which translates to He Is Born.

Welcome back to the one-finger guitar chord primer. Last time, we used the one-finger foundation shape to play a simple chord progression. We’re going to do the same basic thing this time, except we’re going use the one-finger shape to make a new type of chord. I’ll give a brief explanation of the shape, which [...]

Guitar Noise newsletter for December 1, 2008 officially kicks off the holiday guitar lesson season with two new Christmas song lessons and more.

Here is another chord melody arrangement of a Christmas classic that most beginners should be able to get a handle on fairly quickly. As a bonus, it’s arranged so that you can play it either finger style or with a pick.