Keeping a Guitar Journal Or bass, ukulele... really, whatever you want to keep track of your effort on. One way that I know to stay on top of your practice and keep it moving in the right direction is to keep a practice journal. It’s very handy! You can use it to track your practice dates, length and frequency; use it to note any questions you might have that you can bring up later with your teacher or jot down some interesting lyrics or chord changes, tunes you might want to add to your repertoire.

How to play Ripple on ukulele... the first part of "Ripple", anyway. "Ripple" sounds pretty cool on the uke to me! You can do this! Just be patient with yourself and go slowly. There’s a tab, video and an audio file of the tablature to follow along with. I would start with just the first phrase- “if my words did glow”- just that one part.

how to play eyes of the world on uke. Sounds pretty cool on the uke to me! How to play Eyes of the World for Ukulele: Here are tabs, lyrics, chords and notation for “Eyes of the World” and chord charts too. The audio file below is a midi representation of the notation in the file linked above. It’s not perfect certainly but it will give us a place to start!

You can get a lot of mileage out of using thumb and index finger! Travis picking: named after country-and-western pioneer Merle Travis, it's a style of fingerpicking characterized by the steady thump of an alternating bass that underscores rhythmic patterns and melodies on the treble strings. Moving the thumb to an adjacent string lets you play more "plectrum-style" as well, so you can certainly make your playing more interesting than either style separately.

Building chords from the 5 string! Building chords from the 5 string. We know the C scale has no flats or sharps and also that we can play Major chords (triads) with the 1, 3 and 5 scale notes. We can figure that combination out from any note on the 5th string! For instance a C Major is made of a C, and E and a G (1,3 and 5): C D E F G A B C…

There's nothing quite like jamming out over the top of funk changes and you don't even need to be plugged in to do that! Once you understand the blues scale- even in one spot on the neck- well, you can either look at it like it's easier to play reasonably decent lines, or harder to make mistakes. Or both, I guess!

Here's a great Beatles tune with pretty simple, hand-friendly changes. You can certainly play this just by strumming the changes but you can also pick individual notes out of them- and even better, the melody notes are not difficult to get out of the chord shapes at all. Give it a listen and reach out to me if you're interested in more information about how to play "8 days a week" solo finger style on acoustic guitar.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could stop a guitar video at certain points and asks the guitarist “what exactly exactly are you doing there” or “what did you mean when you said that?” Well now you can. Here are some FAQs that might be helpful: How do we get started? First is a video chat, just to get acquainted.

Ever wonder what tunes radio stations all over the world might be playing right now? Check out Radio Garden. This app is fascinating! Each of the dots on the globe represent a radio station and you can click on that and listen to what's on the air. Got a yen to find out what on the radio in Reykjavík, Iceland…

 How to play "I will wait" Mumford and Sons - fingerstyle ukulele. A beautiful song, and not too hard to get the melody right out of the chord shapes.  Download the chord and lyric sheet

someone to watch over me. A great tune to play fingerstyle and not too hard to get under your hand. Lead sheet with chords and lyrics for "Someone to Watch Over Me". Someone to Watch Over Me from "Nice 'N Easy" July 1960 "Someone to Watch Over Me" was composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin in 1926 for the Broadway musical Oh, Kay.

How to play "Saturday Night" by the Misfits on guitar. A simple 1/6/4/5 tune in 3/4 time with... well, you might say "cultural significance". "Horror punk" was a genre I hadn't heard of until a student asked for some help with this tune. It certainly fits a cultural niche, music-wise! "Saturday Night" is fun, and not too difficult to get under your hand if you are just starting out on guitar.

 How to play "Donkey Riding" on ukulele. Download the tabs here a simple two-part harmony on uke. Donkey Riding had its origins with the sailors that left Glasgow and Liverpool on a regular basis to bring back lumber from Canada. It is not precisely a sea chanty, but more of a work song. The "Donkey" in the title is not the animal, it is the engine that was used in loading cargo in the ship's deck. 

something How to play "Something" on guitar. Play the first part of this lovely Lennon/McCartney song for solo guitar. The chord changes are fairly easy and the melody can be picked right out of the chord shapes! The think I really like about it is that beautiful chromatic drop- CM, CM7, C7 to the F, so we're dropping the notes from C to C to Bb to A.

 How to play "Your Song" Elton John - fingerstyle guitar. A beautiful song, and not too hard to get the melody right out of the chord shapes. 

Online zoom guitar lessons! If you're looking for online guitar lessons, I might be just the right teacher for you! I work with guitarists and ukulele players of all levels and abilities and I have students from all over! To make sure I am a good fit for you, I offer a free initial online lesson. No matter what level you are playing at now, I'm willing to bet my own time that you'll benefit from online lessons with me- and you'll discover that yourself at your first FREE lesson!

Muddy Waters meets Tiny Tim... Ukulele Am Blues. "Muddy Waters meets Tiny Tim", as my friend and teacher John LaGreca said. This blues will be in Am. Using a 1/4/5 pattern, that gives us Am for the 1, D, for the 4 and E for the 5. We can play a typical 12 bar blues patternlike this: 1 | % | % | % …

How do I find the name of any chord? Chord namer! The chord namer will automatically name a chord shape (if a valid chord shape is supplied.) Simply select the circles on the fret board that correspond to where your fingers go and hit "Go". A few things to watch out for: Strings that aren't strummed should be set to "Mute" and open strings should be set to zero.

Here are the first thing that comes to mind, if you're interested in starting to play guitar: 1: C Major scale, first position. Everything you need is right there and it’s easy to spell. 2: C Major scale on the the A string, ditto- and you can start to see how the neck works (incidentally you’ve just played “Joy to the World” backward so that’s a bonus).

Download tabs and notation pdf How to play "La Vie en Rose" fingerstyle on ukulele. "La Vie en rose" (French for 'Life in pink'; pronounced ) is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947. The song became popular in the United States in 1950, when seven versions reached the Billboard charts.

Navajo rug A rhythm guitar and drum track to play along with. "Navajo Rug" is a classic western and folk song co-written by Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tyson and American songwriter Tom Russell. Overview and History Release: First released by Ian Tyson on his acclaimed 1986 album Cowboyography. Acclaim: Named one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time by the Western Writers of America.

how to play fields of athenry fingerpicking lesson part 1. A beautiful song, and not too hard to pick the melody out of the chords, or accompany yourself singing! "The Fields of Athenry" is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the lyrics feature a fictional man from near Athenry in County Galway, who stole food for his starving family and has been sentenced to transportation to the Australian penal colony at Botany Bay.

Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. About five minutes into the film, Dorothy sings the song after failing to get 

"Sultans of Swing" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by the lead vocalist and guitarist Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits recorded a demo at Pathway Studios, North London, in July 1977, and it acquired a following after it was put in rotation on BBC Radio London. After Dire Straits signed a record contract with Phonogram Records, they rerecorded it in February 1978 at Basing Street Studios for their debut album, 

 How to play Brokedown Palace. "Brokedown Palace" is a song by the American rock band Grateful Dead, released as the seventh track on the band's fifth studio album American Beauty (1970). Robert Hunter, the band's lyricist wrote the lyrics for "Brokedown Palace" alongside "Ripple" and "To Lay Me Down" in about two hours on his first trip to England, as he recalled: "I sat there with a case of retsina and I opened up a bottle of that stuff", he continued by saying that "for some reason this creative energy started racing through me and I could do no wrong".

Chords and strumming pattern "Three White Horses. This is a pretty cool tune, and not too difficult to play as a finger-style piece and to accompany yourself while singing. three_white_horses Bass line E E E E C C C C G G G G F# F# B B Intro: Em --- C --- G - G/F# - B Em | C | G | B7/F#

Upsidedown in the boneyard Chart Upside-down in the Boneyard Our visit inspired me to write some music. This is  "Upside Down in the Boneyard" and the name comes from a story our Uber drive told us on the way out of town, regarding a drunk driver and St. Louis Cemetery #1. These were written with musescore btw which is FREE! and pretty easy to get a handle on.

Looking for on-line or safe, in-person, one-on-one guitar lessons for your child this Fall? Online guitar lessons are convenient, inexpensive and most importantly, effective and fun! And private online lessons can certainly  help a young musician master their instrument. Take advantage of the convenience of remote lessons to help your child learn to play or improve their existing skills on their instrument. 

Bb blues example. Playing over basic Bb blues changes. if you're interested in playing like this- sort of a hybrid fingerstyle - I've developed a pretty good personalized method to get you there. Reach out and let me know what you think.

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Tennessee Waltz sheet music and chord chart. Chords and strumming pattern "Tennessee Waltz". This is a lovely, stately old tune, and not too difficult to play as a fingerstyle piece. The first video has a simple fingering for the first part of the melody. If you're interested in learning guitar or learning to play guitar better, I'm your guy. I live in New Jersey but teach online guitar lessons coast-to-coast.

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How to play take it to the limit on guitar. Download the chord diagrams, tabs and lyric sheet for part 1 here:  Take It To The Limit "Take It to the Limit" is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the third and last single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also Eagles' greatest success to that point in the United Kingdom, going to No. 12 on the charts.

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