http://guitarground.com Guitar Playing Lessons, Techniques and Tips Sat, 24 May 2008 01:53:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   "Hey Joe" is a song written by W Roberts, but known through Jimi Hendrix. It is on the Jimi Hendrix Experience Album "Are you experienced". Just as an extra snippet of info, if you are taking your guitar seriously and progress, especially into blues or rock playing, then it is ... http://guitarground.com/2008/02/07/how-to-play-hey-joe/ "Learning to fly" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, from their album "Into the great wide open". The song was written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. This song has a fairly simple layout and hence lends itself to being an excellent tune to learn for beginners, and ... http://guitarground.com/2008/02/01/how-to-play-learning-to-fly/   This song was written by C Stevens, and the version here is from the Best of Rod Stewart Album. This lesson will add another song to your list with a few basic chord tricks thrown in to help relieve the boredom of normal strumming and give you something to play around ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/25/how-to-play-the-first-cut-is-the-deepest/   This happens to be one of the first songs I learnt myself and I have found it to be a good starting place when teaching people to play the guitar from scratch. It contains quite a few possibilities for use, there are many examples of it existing to learn from, ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/20/how-to-play-knocking-on-heavens-door/   This song hardly needs an introduction as it is a Beatles classic.  It can be found on the album of the same name.  If you are ever going to play guitar at a party, its usually taken as a given that you have to play a Beatles song, and everyone ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/how-to-play-let-it-be/ The majority of blues songs (but not all) are based around a very simple rhythm structure that consists of 12 bars, hence the name. As a starting point, the simplest form of this structure will be covered in this lesson, along with basic fingerings for playing the blues. The structure given ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/how-to-play-12-bar-blues/ This is a theory lesson based on ways of representing a chord structure without specifying the actual key of the song. I've included it because it is sometimes encountered. Its not essential but it will be used in one of the blues section lessons and hence its here for completeness. ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/chord-progression-and-transposition/ In general guitar playing and music you will only ever encounter twelve notes. A, B, C, D, E, F, G (we will call these even notes which probably isn't a correct musical term, but will help during the explanation of this lesson) and their sharps and flats. A flat (b) refers ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/the-theory-of-notes/ In normal tuning, the notes of the strings are EADGBE.  For open E major you want the strings to be tuned to the notes of an E major chord (EBEG#BE). The easiest way to get to this is to tune the guitar to the normal tuning, then tune the A, D ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/what-is-open-tuning/ This lesson discusses the structure of chords. Chords are easily explained through the use of the Major scale. Although scales will be introduced in more depth later, for ease of use we will refer to the major scale in the key of C. A scale is merely a sequence of ... http://guitarground.com/2008/01/17/guitar-chord-theory/