Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Eight: “When Dreams Dry Up” Unlike campfire chords, which can only be played next to the nut (the thingy between the fingerboard and headstock; see Lesson 6), a moveable chord shape doesn’t use open strings, and therefore can be transposed to any fret. This is how you […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode Seven
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Seven: “Your Diary” We now come to the subject of lead guitar, known in the United Kingdom as “widdly-widdly.” Though most guitar solos these days last three to seven seconds, there was a time (see the 1970s) when guitarists were allowed the freedom to explore musical vistas, […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 6
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Six: “Hi-Hat” More people have quit playing guitar because of the F chord than for any other reason! Don’t let this happen to you! An easy way to make peace with F is to start with the F5 chord. (Students […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 5
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Five: “The Day I Had My Brain Removed” Sometimes nothing can take the place of good old “campfire chords,” the chord shapes most first-year students learn and embrace, such as C, Am, and G7. The combination of ringing open strings and fretted notes in these chords produces […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 4
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Four: “For The Kids” Droning is a technique in which an open string (a string with no fingers on it) is played along with a fretted string (a string with a finger pressed down on it). Usually the finger moves up and down the fingerboard in some […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 3
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Three: “About Time” In the days before digital sampling and looping, if someone wanted to quote a piece of music they had to learn how to play it on a musical instrument. Quoting musical passages can be an effective weapon in your musical arsenal, as long as […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 2
Two images from More Help For Your Nerves. Is it my sick mind or do these resemble female and male anatomy? Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Two: “An Artist In The Field” People often ask: why is the guitar tuned a certain way? The answer is that it isn’t; unlike a piano, […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 1
Digging through the archives recently, I stumbled across a completely-forgotten project. Before the album More Help For Your Nerves was released, it had other provisional titles, one of which was Play Guitar In 7 Days! In comic books or magazines back in the day, you would always see these ads hawking a method to master […]