Yearly Archives: 2009

If you’ve been a long-time reader of Guitar Noise, you’ll probably be aware that we’ve been long-time fans of Jamie Andreas and her Guitar Principles website. Jamie has been a strong tutorial presence on the Internet for ages and her teachings focus on posture, relaxation, muscle movement and memory and the other physical aspects of playing the [...]

Guitar Noise bids a heartfelt “welcome back” to Jamie Andreas of Guitar Prinicples (www.guitarprinciples.com). Jamie has honored us by putting together a series of video lessons of performance notes for our Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” She has a wonderful way of explaining the hows and whys of finger positioning and you’re in for a treat. Enjoy this first lesson and rest assured more are on the way.

Here is a rather faithful arrangement of the closing song from Bob Dylan’s immortal album, Blood on the Tracks. Excellent practice for finger picking technique.

Bob Dylan month continues at Guitar Noise. We also have three new lessons to plug in this latest newsletter, Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 #90.

In our latest lesson in this series, we look at a basic rock progression and examine the choices we can make in terms of scales for soloing. Plus we get a look at the Mixolydian mode as well as discovering a new use for the Dorian.

Peter Simms has written a little ditty that shows us how to make your single guitar sound like a small combo band. We’re going to focus on fingerstyle with a melody, bassline and chords.

In this podcast we’ll work on getting the basics of the summer camp song “Puff The Magic Dragon” down, plus have a little fun with the bass line.

Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 #89 kicks off the month of May. This month we are celebrating the work of Bob Dylan and have a couple new lessons to boot.

Here’s a song arrangement that no one has to sing! Take aspects of “chord melody” arranging and mix them in with fingerstyle playing and you’ve got yourself a version of one of George Harrison’s terrific songs to perform. It’s not all that hard to learn and you can easily adapt it with your own embellishments and style.

I’m pleased to introduce a new series here at Guitar Noise, spotlighting the many, many musical Meccas in this wonderful world of ours. First stop – Nashville, Tennessee. And if you’re thinking, “That’s only country music,” you’ll soon realize that there’s a whole lot more going on!

David Hodge returns with Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 #88. There’s a new song lesson and a new feature on musical Mecca’s plus all the regular features.

If you’re going to play an emotionally charged song, you can’t hide behind a single strumming pattern. Comfortably Numb is one of the highlight songs from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and we have arranged it for a single guitar, using many strumming and crosspicking techniques we’ve gone over in our Guitar Noise Podcast series.

It may be April Fools today, but this is no joke. Charley T. Cat is back. He fills in for David with another issue of our free newsletter. Mmmmeeorrrwweeow.

Let’s offer a warm “welcome back” to Nick, who brings us a look at the interlocking relationship of three important creative aspects of musicianship – improvising, composing and transcribing – and how you can use them to move up from being someone who just dabbles with the guitar to a serious musician.

Let’s finish our look at “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” by looking at a slightly more complicated strumming pattern as well as learning about a new voicing of the G7 chord.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a Celtic arrangement of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “All I Can Do Is Write About It” done in DADGAD tuning. A wonderful way to remember your home, whether home is in Alabama or Caledonia.

Before moving onward with modes, it’s important to grasp the concept of “target” notes as well as to understand that a target note doesn’t have to be a part of the chord in a chord progression. Here we’ll look at how single notes can used to create far more interesting solos than simply using “safe” notes.

The March 15, 2009 issue of Guitar Noise News, a free twice-a-month newsletter from Guitar Noise.

Once again our hometown hero is getting good press. David Hodge is featured on the guitar site Jemsite as part of their Guitar Hero series. Have a read of this great interview. There’s always something that rings true when David talks about how he does things in his own words. Here’s a brief excerpt: As [...]

David Gilmour’s distinctive guitar style is often regarded as the most familiar aspect of the Pink Floyd sound.