Category: Guitar Lessons

Advanced Chord Lessons Part 2: Em7, Cadd9 and Dsus4

Advanced Chord Lessons Part 1: Dsus4 and Dsus2 The following lesson involves the Em7, Cadd9, A7sus4 and the previous lessons chords Dsus4 and Dsus2 chords. Each example chord progression and strum has an audio examplem for you listen and learn. Example 1: Em7, G major, Cadd9 and Dsus4 Example 2: G major, Em7, Dsus4 and […]

Advanced Chord Lessons Part 1: Dsus4 and Dsus2

Suspended chords are great for creating chord riffs. Look through any of your favourite bands back catalogues and you’ll see suspended chords. The following lesson involves the Dsus4 and Dsus2 chords. Examples 1 and 2 use the Dsus4 and Dsus2 with the D major chord. Examples 3 and 4 use the Dsus4 and Dsus2 with […]

Strumming – 1 2 + 3 4

Note: Click on an image to make it bigger Learning to strum properly and consistently is very important to guitar playing. Learning to count a rhythm can be invaluable in learning how to do this. That said though being able to hear and recognise rhythms is more important. A combination of the two will improve […]

Notes on the bottom E string – Neck Knowledge

This lesson is focussed on the bottom E string.  In this article we are looking at how important it is to understand the relationship between the E string and Barre chords or Scales can be. The letter or the note as it should be referred to is usually called the root/tonic – in Chords or Scales […]