Guitar Noise Podcast #19 – Anticipations, Rests and Dynamics
This podcast gives us an introduction to some very important strumming techniques – anticipation, dynamics, and using rests as part of a strumming pattern.
Guitar Strumming Lessons
When you’re just starting out on guitar it can seem like your hands have a mind of their own. Maybe even two minds, since you have two hands. Take heart that beginners aren’t the only ones who sometimes have trouble with strumming patterns. These lessons and podcasts help simplify the question of rhythm patterns.
Guitar Noise Podcast #18 – "Streets of Laredo" Part 3
Let’s wrap up our work with the traditional song, “Streets of Laredo,” one that some of you may recognize from Johnny Cash’s “American Recordings IV.”
Guitar Noise Podcast #17 – "Streets of Laredo" – Part 2
In this podcast we’ll look at creating walking bass lines from D to G chords. We’ll also start to tackle the “chorus” section of this song.
Getting Past “Up and Down” – Part 1: “Sock Puppets”
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.
Guitar Noise Podcast #16 – Streets of Laredo
In this podcast we’ll start with a basic “bass / strum” in 3/4 timing and then add some fancier work to both the bass and the strumming.
Guitar Noise Podcast #15 – Mixing Strumming and Crosspicking
In this lesson we’ll still be using “Handsome Molly” as an exercise to incorporate the various lessons we’ve picked up in our podcasts thus far.
Guitar Noise Podcast #14 – Putting Things To Practical Use
Let’s take stock of the many things we’ve learned so far and, over the course of the next number of GN Podcasts, put them to use in song.
Guitar Noise Podcast #13 – Getting Into Swing
In this podcast we’ll look at the feel of swing and of how “swing eighths” differ from the “straight eighth” notes that we’ve been using in our strumming up to this point.