Tip: The Stardust Pattern
This guitar tip looks at a simple but pleasing pattern that breaks up the monotony of practicing standard scale patterns.
One way to get better at guitar is to develop an effective practice routine and stick to it. Over the years, Guitar Noise has come up with countless tips and lessons on how to improve your practice routine. The lessons on this page are all about maximizing your practice time.
This guitar tip looks at a simple but pleasing pattern that breaks up the monotony of practicing standard scale patterns.
What do guitarists need to know about singing? Singing helps you memorize and understand music better no matter what instrument you are playing.
In his first of hopefully many pieces for Guitar Noise, Tom Mariotti looks at how to go about organizing your practice sessions in order to get the most out of the time you put into them.
There’s always more to learn on the guitar. And no matter what skill level you have, the point of playing is to feel engaged in something timeless.
Timing is a critical part of making music. Without notes playing in their proper time, you have one enormously bad glob of harmony.
Guitarists should take the time and trouble to break out of playing in a single position. This helps with improvisation as well as playing melodies.
Beginners have a lot of questions about modes: How do we use modes? When do we use them? And how do we practice them?
Way, way, way back when, mankind had only two instruments. And by examining how these two are still used today, we can improve our timing, phrasing and many other aspects of our guitar playing. Josh Urban takes us on this interesting tour from early to electric man.