Guitar Tricks Blog
Posted March 5, 2020
5 Advanced Guitar Techniques to Learn
Read MorePosted January 23, 2020
Country Guitar Licks You Can Learn Right Now
Read MorePosted December 18, 2019
What Key is this Song In - How to find the Key of a Song in 3 Steps
Read MorePosted December 5, 2019
5 Best Ways to Play the Pentatonic Scale
Read MorePosted November 14, 2019
Ghost Notes - What Are They?
Read MorePosted October 17, 2019
Music Vocabulary - 4 Quick Lessons!
Music vocabulary is all of the words and jargon associated with playing music, and in this case, all of the words associated with playing guitar. If you ever have trouble with what a word means within a Guitartricks lesson, look no further than our guitar glossary here.
Posted September 5, 2019
Guitar Blues Scales Crash Course
Read MorePosted July 18, 2019
Phrasing - Musical Phrasing Explained!
Read MorePosted July 2, 2019
Fingerstyle Guitar Dynamics - Brought to You By ELIXIR Strings
Read MorePosted March 27, 2019
Am Chord Guitar - Explained!
The Am chord on guitar, or also known as the A minor, is a triad composed from the A major scale. The most common ways to play it is in the open position, at the first fret, or as a barre chord in the fifth position. Since it’s a minor chord, it is often used in slow or mellow songs thanks to its dark sounding tone.
Posted March 6, 2019
6 Jazz Chords Super Easy to Learn
Jazz chords are chord voicings that are commonly used in jazz music. Technically there are no chords called jazz chords, but instead, jazz musicians generally like to use extended chords like 7th major and minor chords, dominant and diminished 7th chords, minor 7th flat 5, and 9th chords.
Posted February 22, 2019
Dsus4 and Other Suspended Chords Explained!
Read MorePosted February 13, 2019
Chord Progressions and What You Need to Know
Read MorePosted January 18, 2019
Pentatonic Scale Essentials Guitar Lesson
The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular guitar scales due to its simplicity and versatility. It’s called the pentatonic scale because there are only five notes in the scale, as opposed to the usual 7 notes in most others. “Penta” means five and “tonic” means notes. Read on to find out why this scale is so popular!