Erica Mills

How to Construct Basic Guitar Chords

In the present article we will talk about how to construct basic minor and major chords on the guitar. Before we begin we must learn some basic music theory, as this will lay the foundations of learning how to build chords anywhere on the fretboard. Ev... Read >

Practicing Guitar Scales - 3 Useful Ideas

Practicing guitar scales is a great way to improve your overall guitar technique and to learn to know your fretboard better, but guitar players often don’t know exactly what to do with them. We have all seen these fancy scale diagrams here and there, then... Read >

Advanced Minor Arpeggios on the Guitar

As promised, it’s about time that we have a look at some more advanced minor arpeggios that can be played on the guitar. Hopefully, you are already familiar to the 3 most commonly used minor arpeggio shapes that we’ve had a look at in a previous guitar le... Read >

Basic Minor Arpeggios on the Guitar

Today we are going to talk about minor arpeggios. We’ll have a look at the 3 most common minor arpeggio shapes on the guitar, how to discover them in different keys and how to connect them, so you can later form some monster minor arpeggio licks. The b... Read >

Am I Too Old to Start Playing Guitar

There are millions of people out there who play the guitar in some form. Whether it is acoustic or electric, professionally or as a hobby, you’ll see that each person has a different story to tell regarding when and why he started playing. For some people... Read >

Guitar Tips: The Importance of Rest

If someone asks you on the most important thing concerning guitar playing, you would probably answer: “That’s practice". It’s true – practice is very important, but so is rest. Guitar players often neglect the fact that playing guitar, just like any other... Read >

Hard Tail Guitars vs Floating Bridge Guitars

A common comparison, especially when it comes to buying a new guitar (or your first guitar), is the comparison between hard tail and floating bridge guitars. Usually the question stands like this: “Which type is better?" Well, none is better – they are di... Read >

Why is it Hard to Develop Picking Speed

In the present article we’ll have a detailed look at why it is so hard to develop guitar speed, when it comes to picking. Well, it is easy to guess that picking speed is hard to develop, mainly because our hands aren’t naturally used to do the movements t... Read >

Let’s Talk Amplifiers

Electric guitars are really something cool to have. A lot of people look for the best sound, designs, brand and other factors. The poor amplifier is often ignored and taken for granted. Beginner guitarists do not often see the importance of getting a good... Read >

Expressing Yourself

One of the best things about art is being able to express yourself. True enough, it is the pinnacle of art. And it is important that you do not only become really good at guitar playing but it also becomes an instrument to expressing yourself and what you... Read >

Getting Burnt Out

Focus and motivation is something important when it comes to learning how to play the guitar. But at least once in your life, you come to a point where you seem to just lose all of the inspiration, motivation, dedication and all other values that you can ... Read >

When to Change your Guitar Strings

You will probably get some advice about changing your guitar strings as regularly as you can. But practically, the frequency of changing your strings depends on how often you play and the type of strings on your guitar. Whenever you play, the strings will... Read >

The Overdrive Distortion

You might probably have heard of a gadget that will make your music a lot thicker than it is right now. This is a gadget that is most popular with the rock guitar players. You will often see them guitar slashers stepping on some kind of pedal to change th... Read >

Delay - Most Common Guitar Effects

Another one of the most common guitar effects would be the delay. It is one of the most favorite guitar effects used by guitar players. It would also be often combined with an overdrive distortion or other guitar effects to achieve maximum results. As... Read >

Using the Chorus

Another guitar gadget that you can use is the chorus. This is an effect where individual sounds with about the same timbre and almost the same pitch converge are then considered to be as one.The effect can either happen naturally or electronically. Ultima... Read >