<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607</id><updated>2012-02-16T13:08:53.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Daily Blues Guide</title><subtitle type='html'>Random Ramblings on Blues</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-7941215276911577401</id><published>2010-01-26T17:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T17:40:16.051-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue in Interior Decorating</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Jim Slate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;Slate and Artstone - Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky. When the waves of the sea are light blue and gently lap at the store, it means that the weather is nice, peaceful, and calm. Yet when the waters grow dark they get pensive and moody. This transformation mimics the symbolism in this color, which has different meanings depending on what shade you are talking about. This color tends to be a very calm color, often associated with cold in opposition to its counterpart which associates to red hot.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Its cold nature contributes to its lethargic effect, because when it's cold out all you want to do is stay inside and sleep.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When the blue gets too dark, it can start to be depressing. The peaceful calm of the color can fall too far, leaving it a lump, morose in its brooding. This is referred to as "the blues" and can describe a number of different emotions or movements.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In contrast, lighter colors tend to be transcendent. The color of the sky the right color can seem to go on forever. In meditation, the color blue is often used to enter a trance, because it seems to endlessly draw you into its depths.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Blue is also associated with many religions. Blue and white are the predominant colors of the Jewish faith, and itis used to symbolize faith in Christianity. Being associated with the sky and the depths of the sea tends to give this color an inherent spirituality. It is the color of the most elementals things in the world, the earth and the sky.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; These natural features stand out next to earth and ground as the more striking of the planets basic components. This gives the color blue an almost transcendental quality, which makes it a color that reaches beyond the others, into a realm unseen. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 					About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 					&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;This article was written on behalf of PebbleZ - your source for rustic &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://pebblez.com/"&gt;slate home decor&lt;/a&gt; prodcuts. Their lineup includes wall clocks, chess sets, onyx lamps, gemstone candle holders, and stone home decor. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 				&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-7941215276911577401?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7941215276911577401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/blue-in-interior-decorating.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7941215276911577401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7941215276911577401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/blue-in-interior-decorating.html' title='Blue in Interior Decorating'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-525670348535257452</id><published>2010-01-03T06:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T07:48:21.214-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Learn Guitar: Some Tips On Your Way To Guitar Excellence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Drew Peterson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;For the learners, there are not many options available there. Group practice sessions, private instruction processes, self-teaching and online teaching are the only means by which you can learn guitar. Depending on the environment and the access to the information, you have to choose your way of learning guitar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You have to select the learning system according to your affordability and targets. With a budget, you can seek for a private instructor or online home music lessons, which you can access from home. Online music lessons are comparatively cheaper and effective too.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you wish online music lesions can help you a lot in the perfect way. Self-teaching is a difficult way to adopt. You'll find all the options including the bonus features in those lessons as they all have a design for the curious learners such as music scales, tabs, notes and musical notation of the famous songs. Some of them are beginner level courses and some are advanced level ones among which you have to select the best one for yourself.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you're not having a budget for your guitar course, you can look for the free online music lessons for yourself. These lessons might look incomplete and they will need you to work hard on them to adopt the actual lessons.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Online learning is negative in a sense, because the liability is all yours here. If someone is teaching you, or learning together with you, you will feel more serious about the regularity and sincerity to the course and the lessons. Here, you don't have the option to get supervised and you have to be responsible about your learning progresses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style= 'padding-top:10px;width:320px;float:left;padding-right:10px;'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 								&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;text-align:center;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;font-size:0.8em ;color:#000080;text-align:left;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;feature=related' target='_blank'&gt;Online Guitar Lessons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A friend can help you to keep the regularity maintained when you are learning from the online lessons. You can seek help from the blogs and your own videos to get an audience who will inspire you to achieve the next levels. Declaring your targets can make them more interested with your course progresses. You will work to maintain your notoriety in front of the visitors.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Learning with someone else is a better option in comparison. You can compete with one another and also complementing the tunes will help you to learn new things easily.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When you are keen to learn the lessons, you can easily cope with them. That's the way guitar learning will be easier for you enabling you singing your favorites. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 					About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 					&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Wanna see where great &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbhwqi_aHc"&gt;guitar lessons for beginners&lt;/a&gt; and learn fast? Look here to find some &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHQWfdXZ80"&gt;easy guitar lessons&lt;/a&gt; and be a star guitarist. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 				&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-525670348535257452?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/525670348535257452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/learn-guitar-some-tips-on-your-way-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/525670348535257452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/525670348535257452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/learn-guitar-some-tips-on-your-way-to.html' title='Learn Guitar: Some Tips On Your Way To Guitar Excellence'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-2091557074712770426</id><published>2010-01-01T04:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T04:35:01.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Guitar Types - Understanding the Different Types of Guitars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Drew Peterson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;Right now a very wanted instrument is the guitar. Naturally there are many different types available, as with any instrument. There are guitars that look different, sound different, and some that even play differently. Now have a look at some of the different types that you can select among.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Usually it is best to start out by playing an acoustic guitar if you want to learn to play guitar. These guitars are not electric and only rely on their shape and structure for sound. The body of the guitar resonates the vibrations when playing them. These guitars are usually made of wood as well, although the types of wood can vary.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There are a lot of different types of acoustic guitars, and it may be difficult to choose among them at first, but a piece of good advice would be to go with the classical guitar. Beginners will find this one easy to use, and it will sound good as well. Another type of guitar that you might like is the flamenco guitar. This is a type of guitar that shares strong resemblance with classical guitars, but they are thinner and according to some produce a better sound.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style= 'padding-top:10px;width:320px;float:left;padding-right:10px;'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 								&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;text-align:center;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRbhwqi_aHc&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRbhwqi_aHc&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;font-size:0.8em ;color:#000080;text-align:left;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbhwqi_aHc&amp;amp;feature=related' target='_blank'&gt;electric guitar lessons for beginners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another guitar that you will find out there is the 12 string. It is called this for obvious reasons and belongs in the acoustic family of guitars. Each string has a sister string which makes the same note, but is tuned to a slightly higher octave. This is done so that more sounds can be produced when playing the guitar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another type of acoustic that you can get is called the steel top. They're sort of like the classical guitars, and they have heavily reinforced bodies. They also differ because they are a lot larger. These also possess a much warmer tone which tends to make a more mellow sound than other guitars.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The acoustic bass is a type of acoustic guitar and it is basically a bass guitar that has no electric pick ups. The body helps to give the beautiful sound. In most cases these guitars have four strings, but some of them come with five or even six strings on them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Naturally there are electric guitars, which you have no doubt heard of. These are guitars that feature electronic pick ups which take the vibrations that you make with the strings and amplify them. To get this effect you will usually need an amplifier, and you will need a good one. If there is no amplifier, then there won't be much sound to work with because the body of the guitar is not make to produce any.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Most electric guitars come with special control knobs. These knobs can raise or lower the volume and may change the guitar's tone as well. There are whammy bars on some of these guitars which help to shift the notes you play without you having to change the position of your fingers. They are often used to produce a special guitar sound often referred to as "crying."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Those are just a few of the great guitars which you can choose and learn to play. There are many types out there, but remember it's always good to start with the basics. When you have learned the rudimentary skills, then you can go on to choose a different guitar, or stay with the one you initially chose if you so desire. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 					About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 					&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Take a quick look at this &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH_88n9gSmU"&gt;teach yourself to play guitar&lt;/a&gt; software and learn guitar online. See these &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCvu1sZAgY"&gt;learn to play the guitar&lt;/a&gt; and learn how to play it quick. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 				&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-2091557074712770426?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/2091557074712770426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/guitar-types-understanding-different.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/2091557074712770426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/2091557074712770426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/guitar-types-understanding-different.html' title='Guitar Types - Understanding the Different Types of Guitars'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-7099104498673202381</id><published>2009-12-26T05:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T05:58:42.825-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lean Guitar By Yourself By An Easy Method</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Patrick Phillip&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;Learning guitar can be a great thing if you're one interested in music. It allows you compose your own music and sing songs with perfect music in the background. This is the main reason that most of the lead singers of different bands are working as a guitar artists also. You can always learn guitar for yourself, but, if it is about professional guitar playing you must need to spend time for that. Its difficult to manage playing and guitar and singing simultaneously, and it needs a lot of practices to do that professionally.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Singing a song while playing a guitar is often impossible for the beginners, this needs years of dedication and practice. A beginner must be very cautious about the selection of the songs, otherwise they can be disappointed at the very beginning, and simple songs might be the best option at that time. Listening to the song for several times will help you a lot to memorize the notations accurately; then, you can try playing yourself. Progression in cantos can help you to get hold of the tones perfectly at the very beginning.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For the people, who are trying to become professional guitarist must have that passion and pledge towards learning the instrument. Practicing only few days can never an amateur into a professional guitarist. You may have problems with your tunes at the beginning; continuous and regular practice will allow you to improve gradually.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For the learners, making mistakes is a very common and expected thing. As a beginner, you must have to commit mistakes; otherwise, you won't be able to learn it perfectly. You have to be patient and you should not stop learning being disappointed with these mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style= 'padding-top:10px;width:320px;float:left;padding-right:10px;'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 								&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;text-align:center;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;font-size:0.8em ;color:#000080;text-align:left;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;feature=related' target='_blank'&gt;Online Guitar Lessons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you're trying to learn guitar by yourself, you'll find tons of journals guides and videos over the internet. Some of them are really useful and can help you a lot. You can follow all the procedures to the point and learn the basic things from them. Practice regularly and at the end of the day, you'll be a good guitarist.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Using internet can also be an effective system of learning guitar. You can get the basic lessons online and you can learn from the video tutorials. If you're really interested in guitar and music, you can become one someday easily.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nonstop practice can make this one a boring thing for you; that's why you should stop when you're tired. You should do other things as usual, but you have to practice often.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Guitar learning is a continuous process. You can never finish learning as the new techniques and conceptions will never allow you to do this. You can learn more as long as you keep practicing. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 					About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 					&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Want to learn where you can get great &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbhwqi_aHc"&gt;guitar lessons for beginners&lt;/a&gt; and learn guitar quickly? Look here to find some &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHQWfdXZ80"&gt;easy guitar lessons&lt;/a&gt; and rule the fretboard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 				&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-7099104498673202381?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7099104498673202381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/lean-guitar-by-yourself-by-easy-method.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7099104498673202381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7099104498673202381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/lean-guitar-by-yourself-by-easy-method.html' title='Lean Guitar By Yourself By An Easy Method'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-7951510378935424595</id><published>2009-12-23T11:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T11:17:58.989-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Learning Acoustic Guitar: The Parts of the Guitar and Proper Posture</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Scott Forrester&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;Some people may think otherwise, but in truth learning to play the guitar is pretty easy. The only thing that you need to do is learn where to start, and the proper place to start is by learning the different parts of a guitar. By doing this you will learn the way it works, and then you'll understand the importance of aspects such as string and pick selection. There aren't that many parts in an acoustic guitar, so we'll go over them fast:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. The biggest part is the body. This is where all the sound comes from, and it emits those sounds through a hole that is carved in the center. This is also where the strings run through from the neck of the guitar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 2. Next there is the bridge. What is the bridge? It is right behind the hole, and the strings are attached to it. This part is usually made out of wood, at least on most guitars.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3. Then there is the neck, which is on the other end of the guitar's body. The neck is on the left, and is long and skinny. The guitar strings go from the bridge all the way to the top of the neck to the tuning keys.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 4. In order to make different notes and sounds with your guitar, you need to place your fingers behind the frets. The frets are the golden bars running across the neck, and there are normally twenty four of them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 5. The next part is the nut; this is a divider that goes between the neck and the head stock. Normally this is grooved and keeps the headstock from sliding about while you play your guitar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 6. Next there is the headstock, which is the topmost section on the neck. This is where the tuning keys are situated.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 7. What exactly are tuning keys? Those are the metal table located either on the side or the bottom of the head stock, and they are used for tuning the guitar. If the guitar is in tune then it will actually sound right, as opposed to when it is not in tune.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So those are the basic parts of the guitar. After you have learned that you will need to learn to keep good posture while playing, that way your instrument will sound great when you play! Next we will tell you exactly how to accomplish that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style= 'padding-top:10px;width:320px;float:left;padding-right:10px;'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 								&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;text-align:center;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="267.294117647"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin:auto;padding:0;font-size:0.8em ;color:#000080;text-align:left;width:320px;'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCvu1sZAgY&amp;feature=related' target='_blank'&gt;Online Guitar Lessons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For right handed players: Begin in a sitting position, and raise one of your knees just a little bit. Put the guitar body in such a way that you are holding the neck to the left. Take the neck with your left, and then put the pick in your right. This is a decent posture, and one suitable for playing the guitar. If you need to, you can always use a strap.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you need to play with your left handed, then just reverse the posture and make sure that you're comfortable. You can sit in any way that you want, so long as you are comfortable and that the guitar sounds right. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 					About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 					&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Look at these &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCvu1sZAgY"&gt;learn how to play guitar&lt;/a&gt; and get really good at guitar in a time? See these &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH_88n9gSmU"&gt;learning to play guitar&lt;/a&gt; and learn how to get really good quick! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 				&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-7951510378935424595?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7951510378935424595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/learning-acoustic-guitar-parts-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7951510378935424595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7951510378935424595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/learning-acoustic-guitar-parts-of.html' title='Learning Acoustic Guitar: The Parts of the Guitar and Proper Posture'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-6582966348500053945</id><published>2009-12-08T23:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T02:17:56.556-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Learning Guitar Is Easy, If You Have The Right Method</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Patrick Phillip&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;Music lovers are always fascinated about musical instruments; guitar is the most popular among them. Regarding music composition, guitarists get some advantages and they can perform without the help of anyone else. In most of the bands, the singers also play the role of guitarists because they have close connections between each other. For the professionals, guitar learning is a matter of regular practice. Playing guitar and singing songs together is very difficult, but regular and methodical practice can help you a lot to improve your quality as a guitarist.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Singing a song while playing a guitar is often impossible for the beginners, this needs years of dedication and practice. A beginner must be very cautious about the selection of the songs, otherwise they can be disappointed at the very beginning, and simple songs might be the best option at that time. Listening to the song for several times will help you a lot to memorize the notations accurately; then, you can try playing yourself. Progression in cantos can help you to get hold of the tones perfectly at the very beginning.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you are trying to be a professional guitarist, you have to be enthusiastic and passionate about the instrument. If you think, you can be a great guitarist within a few days, you are having the wrong conception. At first, you will have so many problems with your tunes, which will reduce after lots of practices.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For the learners, making mistakes is a very common and expected thing. As a beginner, you must have to commit mistakes; otherwise, you won't be able to learn it perfectly. You have to be patient and you should not stop learning being disappointed with these mistakes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For the learners, trying to learn by themselves, there are thousands of teaching materials optimized for self-teaching processes. Among them, some of the materials are great and can help you a lot. Basic procedures are the things that you should follow in them. Your skill as a guitarist will surely increase if you follow the instructions and work hard.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Using internet can also be an effective system of learning guitar. You can get the basic lessons online and you can learn from the video tutorials. If you're really interested in guitar and music, you can become one someday easily.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you're tired, don't stress yourself up more by continuing the practice session. You should take rest and do all other things too; but you need to be very regular with your practice.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Guitar learning is a continuous process. You can never finish learning as the new techniques and conceptions will never allow you to do this. You can learn more as long as you keep practicing. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Wanna find out where you can get &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbhwqi_aHc"&gt;guitar lessons for beginners&lt;/a&gt; and learn guitar quickly? Take a look at these great &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHQWfdXZ80"&gt;easy guitar lessons&lt;/a&gt; and get complete control of your fretboard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-6582966348500053945?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/6582966348500053945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/learning-guitar-is-easy-if-you-have.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/6582966348500053945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/6582966348500053945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/12/learning-guitar-is-easy-if-you-have.html' title='Learning Guitar Is Easy, If You Have The Right Method'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-7550059775861493242</id><published>2009-11-09T23:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T23:35:18.356-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Guitar Scales Charts: Reinforce The Concepts Many Times As You Need To</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Trevor Ngata&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;The first step to learning your guitar in a snap is the most obvious. Sit down and actually practice. By actually practicing I mean not always playing what you enjoy, or are familiar with.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you are going to invest in one on one lessons in the real world you are going to want to make sure that you set aside to practice on a regular basis. You are investing money in the lessons. Therefore, you are going to want to make sure that you follow up these lessons with solid practice. As part of your practice sessions, you will want to utilize finger picking techniques.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The first thing I will say to you is this: Unless you are practicing to be a professional, don't pick up the guitar unless you actually want to. The most valuable part of a practice session is that you actually enjoy it. If you want to be in a band, or want to play on the jam circuit, then I would recommend picking up your guitar once a day and spending at least an hour with it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Second, there are larger sites that offer a wide range of different types of educational tools to assist you in learning guitar online. For example, these sites might offer to you video presentations that can assist you when it comes to learning guitar, including such techniques and practices as finger picking.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In this regard, these interactive sites can be well suited to novices and more experienced players alike. Once again, as with other types of sites online, you can learn techniques like the funk-skunk on interactive sites that are running online today. Finally, there are online guitar playing communities through which people like you can learn a vast array of guitar techniques including such things as funk-skunk.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You could just begin by tuning your guitar half a step down. Not a drastic change but it makes your guitar sound more growly without losing all the high range. Or you could take your strings down a whole step so that your guitar is tuned D G C F A D.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Don't turn your guitar practice time into extended guitar solos. If you have a track of say, six minutes at your disposal, use it to practice licks and short solo breaks, the age of the twenty minute solo is long gone. Also, make use of your backing tracks to improve the basic aspects of your guitar playing like your timing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Using backing tracks you will be always playing in time and you will find that you are looking forward to your guitar practice because you enjoy playing with a band in your bedroom. When you have obtained some backing tracks to help you with your guitar practice, start using them right away. And if you find after a week or so that you are beginning to practice without using your backing tracks, make an effort to go back to using them. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;If you've enjoyed all the exciting information you read here about learn acoustic guitar,you'll love everything else you find at &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://hubpages.com/hub/free-guitar-scales-charts-printable-pdf"&gt;free guitar scales charts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-7550059775861493242?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7550059775861493242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-guitar-scales-charts-reinforce.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7550059775861493242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7550059775861493242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-guitar-scales-charts-reinforce.html' title='Free Guitar Scales Charts: Reinforce The Concepts Many Times As You Need To'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-7233684744126856624</id><published>2009-10-28T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T15:06:42.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Learn How to Play Guitar Online: Private Lessons At Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Troy Scott&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;As a beginner learning to play the guitar can seem like a pretty steep hill to climb. There are notes and chords to learn and correct finger placement and technique to establish. Don't be discouraged to quickly by letting these things get you frustrated.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You owe it to yourself to be the best player you can be, so make that choice right now and say to yourself, "I commit to practicing my instrument in a consistent manner that leads to me learning how to play the guitar in a snap."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To get some insight into the evolution of flatpicking guitar playing, it might help to look at how Doc Watson, whose guitar playing career began in the nineteen fifties, contributed to the use of flatpicking guitar in bluegrass music. It was simply that the band he was working with did not have a fiddle player and Doc was not able to become a good fiddle player himself. So because he enjoyed fiddle tunes, he simply learnt how to play them on the guitar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Before you get a teacher, remember that you are going to give this person your time and more importantly, your money. So make sure the teacher is a good one before you invest. Go online, see if you can find any write-ups on them, check the papers, ask around, talk to friends. But make sure the teacher is a good one and has a good reputation. Your teacher should be patient, understanding and above all else, professional!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In the brick and mortar world, you might want to turn to one on one lessons if you really are intent at improving your ability to play guitar. While these types of guitar lessons can cost you more than other types of guitar lesson options, for many people one on one lessons are ideal ways to learn guitar initially and then to master the instrument to a greater degree on down the road.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A little tip for you here: If a string breaks on your guitar, I would recommend you change the whole set, other wise you will end up with spare strings lying around everywhere, and for some reason, I always find there is a difference in quality of sound when I only change one string. Maybe I'm just a perfectionist, who knows? As far as practice is concerned, there are a couple of ways to approach it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Add your heartbreak to that guitar, you're on your way to sing the blues. Blues Guitar Lessons THIRD rule: Learn the blues scales.Surprised this isn't the first rule? This is the technical side of things.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; These tips should help you get started, and if you're serious about taking some guitar lessons for beginners don't waste another second and check out this review for an award winning guitar course that I recommend. Another characteristic of Metal guitar is the use of drop tunings. If you play Metal your guitar should be tuned low. It gives you a totally different kind of control over your strings, your sound is more aggressive and you can do more with hammer-ons and tapping. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Understanding all there is to know about learn guitar tab is not always easy. Luckily you can get everything you need right here at &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://learn-how-to-play-guitar-online.wetpaint.com/"&gt;learn how to play guitar online&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-7233684744126856624?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7233684744126856624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/learn-how-to-play-guitar-online-private.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7233684744126856624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/7233684744126856624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/learn-how-to-play-guitar-online-private.html' title='Learn How to Play Guitar Online: Private Lessons At Home'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-5362163608222071051</id><published>2009-10-14T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T10:44:02.351-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blues Guitar Lessons DVDs: Learn At Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Samari Pryce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;As a beginner learning to play the guitar can seem like a pretty steep hill to climb. There are notes and chords to learn and correct finger placement and technique to establish. Don't be discouraged to quickly by letting these things get you frustrated.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There are also songs that maybe should not be played. "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton, "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple and "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles are contenders for this list but that probably only applies if your audience is sober.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Third, there are websites in operation online that really are guitar communities. Through these types of websites, you can learn different guitar playing techniques from peers and from other people who have some more experience than you might have when it comes to guitar playing. Through these types of community website venues you can learn a wide range of things, including techniques that are very important to a person who wants to advance with guitar playing like finger picking.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you are interested in taking guitar lessons of one type or another, you do need to fully appreciate that there really is a variety of different guitar learning options that are available to you today. Of course, there are many different guitar playing styles and techniques that trying to figure out what type of guitar lessons might be best for you can be confusing. Through this article you are provided a brief overview of one of the more interesting guitar playing techniques: funk-skunk.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In this day and age if you want to learn a guitar technique like funk-skunk you actually do have some different options available to you. This includes learning options that you can access on the Internet and World Wide Web. There are websites that have been set up specifically for novice guitar players.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dig down, dig deep, find your sadness. You can sing the blues. Blues Guitar Lessons have a golden rule: Get a GUITAR Blues accordion players just don't make it big you know? Ever heard of a blues cellist? Me neither.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But be aware, because it's easy to pick up bad habits from them. It may be that this pro is a natural like you, but one that didn't take lessons, or spend months and years perfecting his technique. So I recommend you get a guitar lessons DVD.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To wrap up I would just like to say thanks for reading, and I hope this article helped you understand what it takes to get there. Hard work, patience, and most importantly, a teacher. It's all very well learning from the internet, but the internet can't stop you and say "Hey, that's great, but you might want to look at changing the way you do A, B or C...", neither can it tell you when you are doing something exceptionally well. - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Lowest prices ever on learn electric guitar, grab yours now while they last at &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.squidoo.com/blues-guitar-lessons-dvd"&gt;blues guitar lessons dvd&lt;/a&gt; Better hurrybecause suplies are limited. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-5362163608222071051?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/5362163608222071051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/blues-guitar-lessons-dvds-learn-at-home.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/5362163608222071051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/5362163608222071051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/blues-guitar-lessons-dvds-learn-at-home.html' title='Blues Guitar Lessons DVDs: Learn At Home'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-1312508594412673398</id><published>2009-10-11T04:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T08:13:16.590-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Learn How To Play The 12 Bar Blues On Guitar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Michel Pale&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;It?s hard to describe how to play the 12 Bar blues on the guitar when you don?t have one in front of you. It?s also hard to play it if you have never done it before and you are interested in playing the 12 bar blues . What isn?t hard is writing about it so that you can get fired up enough to want to play it, or, if you play , and have lost your way, to re-kindle that passion so that you can learn the proper way.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many who hear some music that they love and want to play it, often see themselves up on stage having the time of their lives with mobs of screaming fans who just can?t get enough. Well, learning should be that way too if you approach it properly. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The first thing you need to know if you are bitten by the bug is to know how to go about learning properly, and that means, wanting to really learn. If you go about it recklessly, then you won?t go far before you lose interest, and you may never touch the guitar again, and that would be a shame because all you really needed was to learn how to learn. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Start by finding a good instructor. You can usually find one by seeing where all the real musicians go. If you begin your instruction there, then you will be introduced to the world of 12 bar blues in the right way, by taking it slow at first so that you get the chords and the progression right, and then, getting it smooth. Never worry about speed, which will come once it?s fluid enough.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once you have the basics then you can get into the theory, which is all about structure and form, and that has to with tonic chords, dominant chords, sub dominant, etc., then the 12 bar blues progression that is blended in with it. Remember, this all takes time, but if you take the time, you will get out of it what you have put into it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There are three main chords that you need to know, and they are A7, E7, and B7, and from there, once you?ve got those down, you can move on to different keys, fifth notes, and how it all combines into that sound you first fell in love with, and wanted so much to learn. Once you do get proficient, there is a tendency to show off how technically good you are by trying to cram all you know into everything you play, and that is where the style gained through confidence is learned, and that is what makes you stand out. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So keep in mind that you must be technically proficient enough so that you can create an emotional impact, and when you do that, there will be someone else out there who will want to play the 12 bar blues guitar just like you! - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Jam with a live band with over 80 of the best &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.50blues.com/12barbluesjam.htm"&gt;12 bar blues&lt;/A&gt; backing tracks. These tracks are recorded with *live* musicians in a real studio. Download &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.50blues.com/12barbluesjam.htm"&gt;12 bar blues guitar&lt;/A&gt; jam tracks now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5164977610279172607-1312508594412673398?l=dailybluesguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/feeds/1312508594412673398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/learn-how-to-play-12-bar-blues-on_11.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/1312508594412673398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5164977610279172607/posts/default/1312508594412673398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dailybluesguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/learn-how-to-play-12-bar-blues-on_11.html' title='Learn How To Play The 12 Bar Blues On Guitar'/><author><name>stevie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772325574038930</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164977610279172607.post-5785142520206677934</id><published>2009-10-09T15:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T18:02:10.858-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Learn How To Play The 12 Bar Blues On Guitar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'&gt;By Michel Pale&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='uawarticle'&gt;It?s hard to describe how to play the 12 Bar blues on the guitar when you don?t have one in front of you. It?s also hard to play it if you have never done it before and you are interested in playing the 12 bar blues . What isn?t hard is writing about it so that you can get fired up enough to want to play it, or, if you play , and have lost your way, to re-kindle that passion so that you can learn the proper way.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many who hear some music that they love and want to play it, often see themselves up on stage having the time of their lives with mobs of screaming fans who just can?t get enough. Well, learning should be that way too if you approach it properly. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The first thing you need to know if you are bitten by the bug is to know how to go about learning properly, and that means, wanting to really learn. If you go about it recklessly, then you won?t go far before you lose interest, and you may never touch the guitar again, and that would be a shame because all you really needed was to learn how to learn. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Start by finding a good instructor. You can usually find one by seeing where all the real musicians go. If you begin your instruction there, then you will be introduced to the world of 12 bar blues in the right way, by taking it slow at first so that you get the chords and the progression right, and then, getting it smooth. Never worry about speed, which will come once it?s fluid enough.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once you have the basics then you can get into the theory, which is all about structure and form, and that has to with tonic chords, dominant chords, sub dominant, etc., then the 12 bar blues progression that is blended in with it. Remember, this all takes time, but if you take the time, you will get out of it what you have put into it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There are three main chords that you need to know, and they are A7, E7, and B7, and from there, once you?ve got those down, you can move on to different keys, fifth notes, and how it all combines into that sound you first fell in love with, and wanted so much to learn. Once you do get proficient, there is a tendency to show off how technically good you are by trying to cram all you know into everything you play, and that is where the style gained through confidence is learned, and that is what makes you stand out. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So keep in mind that you must be technically proficient enough so that you can create an emotional impact, and when you do that, there will be someone else out there who will want to play the 12 bar blues guitar just like you! - 29714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='uawresource'&gt;&lt;div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 			About the Author:&lt;br /&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  class='uawlinks'&gt;Download 80 of the best &lt;a target='_blank' href="http://www.50blues.com/12barbluesjam.htm"&gt;12 bar blues backing&lt;/A&gt; tracks and jam with a *live* band at the comfort of your room. 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