July just-jammin.com Archives

Choosing a Teacher

 
One aspect that I found key  to  being taught by teacher was how they teach.
 

 We have so far concentrated on one to one teaching, but you may be in class a environment. In a class environment  you are on your own to some degree and can easily get left behind, especially if you get some […]

Teach me

Teach Me
While we can learn to play by teaching ourselves, and lets face it there are some really great tools out there to help us. We might wonder what it is to be taught face to face, with this in mind I have drafted a quick guide on what to look for in being […]

Impovisation

My inspiration for wanting to play a guitar came from seeing a documentary about John Williams playing at the Seville concert, what got me really hooked was Joaquin Rodrigo.
From then on I wanted to make music but lacked the patience and dedication to play classical to any great degree. I remember telling my teacher […]

A beginners tool

 
As a beginner I am always on the look out for help to improving, searching the internet I found Unlock the Guitar.
If you are like me impatient and want to get those strings singing, try Unlock the Guitar, it will have you playing in 3 days, ask my family. They can now recognise the […]

What amp

I went into the store to buy an electric guitar and an amp and did not think of buying them separate! My mistake ?  Going in with no previous research was not a good idea as I settled for a guitar and amp package.
I guess I shied away from committing a lot of money […]

Bottleneck Slide Guitar

SLIDE GUITAR SET-UP
To play slide, you must first have your guitar set up properly for the best tone and playability.  I play on my 1930 National steel-bodied Style O resonator guitar.  These are great sounding old guitars, especially for slide and delta blues.  Many blues, jazz, hillbilly, and Hawaiian guitarists played Nationals, and before the […]

Guitar Recording

Recording guitar is one of the most challenging arts that any recording engineer would have to master — Well, that used to be…
There was a time when for you to record an acoustic guitar, you needed to get special mics called condenser mics (And at that, you needed specific types and models for best results). […]

String Trees And Tension Bars

Among many guitar parts and accessories that you can buy and replace yourself easily, string trees play an important role in providing a good tone for your guitar by controlling the behind-the-nut angle of the strings.
Many novice guitar players think that the string trees are only for the looks, not for function. They don’t realize […]

How to Tune a Guitar
Tuning the guitar is vital to sounding good. Here are some simple instructions that explain guitar tuning basics. The open strings of a guitar from the thickest to thinest are as follows:

E - the thickest or lowest sounding string is known as the 6th string
A - is the 5th
D - is […]

Playing slowly makes you faster

What benefits will you reap from playing slowly? Surprisingly enough you might become a faster guitar player and more important, you will become a better musician and guitarist!
How is this possible?
Life is full of surprises. Many people have experienced that they somehow have run away from life by hurrying all the time. Well, what has […]

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