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Learning to play guitar can be a very frustrating experience, at least in the initial stages, when one is unable to grasp the basic concepts, like ear training, guitar string tuning, and so on. In my guitar learning quest, I went through several of these hurdles and was actually stuck behind them for quite sometime. Hence, I know exactly how troublesome they are and also how to get past them effectively and easily. Acoustic guitar string tuning was something I felt I would never be able to do because of the vast experience needed for recognizing musical notes by the ear. However, I was able to tune my guitar quite accurately and very quickly using the beats theory of my physics lessons. It is very simple and does not require an ear that is trained for musical notes. Even a people without formal musical training can tune their acoustic guitar easily using this method. Continue Reading…

As an amateur guitarist, I frequently spent hours searching the internet for easy guitar music. Even when I did not know how to play major chords on the guitar, my computer disk was almost flooded with different kinds of tabs, chords, and sheet music for songs, which I had not heard even once. It was a sort of addiction to collect notations of music, even though it didn’t convey its real message. This is the prime reason why I have started writing about this topic, since I know many new guitarists are anxious to give their slow and lethargic fingers some simple tunes, which they can understand as well as play right from the first day itself. After all we all want quick results ! Continue Reading…