Yearly Archives: 2011

A Horse With No Name by America is one of the easiest songs for you to learn. We’re going to teach you how to play it while throwing in some music theory.

Are you just starting to learn guitar? These free guitar lessons cover everything for beginners from chords to tuning and easy songs you can learn to play.

Eddie Van Halen is second only to Jimi Hendrix when it comes to rock guitar. Starting with “Eruption” in 1978 he rewrote the book on what a guitar could do.

Another question about capos and transposing songs. How do you know which fret to put the capo on if you’re playing along with another guitar?

As 2011 comes to a close, we at Guitar Noise are taking a look back at our most popular lessons to find out what interested you, our readers.

“Events Horizon” is our weekly blog post where we tell you about upcoming shows featuring members and friends of the Guitar Noise community.

If you’re serious about learning to play guitar, you’ll want to use as many different sources as you can find. And take in every bit of information you can.

For this lesson on “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” we show how using two notes of a chord can create a beautiful chord melody arrangement.

There is a right way to play guitar, but is there a left way? Regardless of how you play, a regular guitar book will work with a left-handed guitar.

Welcome to the last Events Horizon of 2011, where catch you up on upcoming shows featuring members and friends of the Guitar Noise community.

Let’s look at hexatonic scales. Like the blues scale, hexatonic scales are any scales that have six notes.

Let me take a moment to wish all of you, as well as your families and friends a safe and joyful holiday season, for whichever holidays you celebrate!

Is it ok to leave a guitar in open tuning? Or should it be retuned to standard tuning when you’re not playing it? The answer is fairly straightforward.

Gerald Klickstein, author of “The Musician’s Way,” offers up this creative discussion on how to not be creative!

It’s almost the middle of December already! And, being Wednesday, that means it’s also time for the latest Guitar Noise’ “Events Horizon”.

To allow your musical feeling to emerge and give life to the notes you play, you must have the technique required to produce those notes in the first place.

A lot of blues music is played by adding one note to the regular pentatonic scale. This “blue note” is what makes the blues music sound the way it does.

Most people tend to play their guitars really low because it looks really cool. It’s actually a lot harder to play well that way. So what is good posture?

Whenever you’re out playing Guitar Noise would like to help promote your shows, whether it’s in a stadium or at a ten-seat coffee house.

Believe it or not, scales are your friend. There is no reason scales should scare or confuse guitar players and with Tom’s help we’re going prove that.