Category: Lessons

Lesson Three – Tuning the Guitar

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I highly recommend purchasing an electronic tuner (especially one that includes a metronome).  You should use your tuner as a training tool to improve your tuning skills.

How often should you tune your guitar?  Every time you pick it up!

Be sure to memorize the note names for each open string on the guitar.  From the six string it goes like this: E A D G B E.  Maybe this will help, “Eat At Denny’s Get Big Eggs.”

Try the six-step tuning method that is given in this lesson and then check your tuning with your electronic tuner.  How did you do?

Lesson Five – Understanding Rhythm

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Please read through this lesson.  This lesson is more about music than it is about the guitar.  This lesson could be a chapter in any music book for any instrument.  Here are the main things I would like for you to get out of this Lesson:

  • Be able to identify in music a whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth note (and the corresponding rests).
  • Know what the top and bottom number of a time signature stand for.
  • Know the value of a whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth note in 4/4 time and 3/4 time.
  • Try the rhythm exercises given at the end of the Lesson using the chord of your choice.