absolute beginner

How you hold your guitar can make a big difference on how quickly you make progress learning to play. David Hodge gives you a few tips to help you out.

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.

Part two in our explanation of standard notation. Now you know what the are, it’s time to learn what else music notation can teach you. Timing is everything.

Welcome to the first of our Absolute Beginner articles. Our hope is to get you started playing the guitar as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

A quick guide to reading music notation. This is something that many of you have asked for. It is also something that any and every serious musician needs.