When you’re learning to play the bass guitar – learning arpeggios and bass patterns at different places on the neck is what it’s all about. Learning to read traditional music can be a tremendous help. This is much more the case than with the 6 string guitar because bass notation is much simpler and easy
Here’s our Sugar Sugar practice track – a great old song recorded by a group called The Archies. “Sugar, Sugar” was written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. This version reached number one in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and remained there for four weeks. It was also number one
This Let It Be practice track is ideal for Beatle fans. The song “Let It Be” appeared on the Beatles’ album by the same name, Let It Be, and was the twelfth and final studio album by the band. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group’s break-up. After an
There is an growing number of exercises and easy songs especially for new bass players here: Bass Practice Tracks for new Bass Players We’ve tried to give you commonly used patterns, and in many cases have indicated alternative positions on the fretboard to help you learn different positions. These exercises and songs use traditional notation,
This is a Crash Course in how to play the guitar. This course shows you how to play melodies and chords and will give you an introduction and a bit of exposure to reading standard musical notation – “reading music”. The course includes 10 lessons and moves you step by step. It starts at basics
“I Knew You Were Trouble” was composed by Taylor Swift, along with her producers Max Martin and Shellback. It was recorded in 2012 and became massively popular. Typical for Taylor Swift the song is roughly based on a look back at recent personal relationships (real or imagined). This is apparently the kind of stuff her
How you tackle (and why) learning the guitar fretboard depends a lot on what you want to do with that information. If all you want to do is to play rhythm then chances are you’ll spend most of your time near the nut either in the open position, or playing familiar barre chords. Learning the
New guitar players tend to think of the guitar as a chording machine. This tends to lead them try to play chords across all six strings. But, technically speaking, a chord is really just a combination of three tones: 1 (the root) – 3 – 5. For example C-E-G. And some would include certain two
“Three Little Birds” is a song written and recorded by Bob Marley, and originally released in 1977. The song is is often thought of as “Don’t Worry” or “Everything Is Gonna Be Alright” because of how often these phrases are repeated in the song. But the title was inspired, at least partially, by Marley’s love
