Hello to all!
In the October 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine (featuring a great interview with Cassandra Wilson, who’s on the cover), you’ll find two new lessons of mine.
In the “Here’s How” section, there is an Introduction to Ear Training, which focuses on the basics of how to listen to chords and to figure out what is being played on the guitar. Get yourself started on the road to being able to tab out guitar music for yourself.
Hand in hand with this article is a Basics lesson called Read Tablature Intelligently. It’s a primer on teaching yourself how to stop reading tab “note by note” and to start seeing all the fingering and positioning clues that come with any tab. If you’re a slightly advanced beginner who gets lost reading tab, this should help you out a lot.
As always, you can find these articles online at www.acousticguitar.com as well as in the magazine itself.
And, as always, my thanks for reading them. Any comments, as well as suggestions for new articles, are more than welcome.
Peace
Great post. You nailed it on the head, as I am an advanced beginner who has been having problems with tablatures. Your article really helped in improving my technique. The “Here’s How” section on Ear Training was a good read as well. Also, I am currently thinking about purchasing another guitar or two, but first I’d like to get some more information on the differences between classical, steel string, and all other sub-types of acoustics. I poked around your website but I couldn’t find any actual side by side comparisons. This article is an example of the kind of “tutorial” I’m talking about, except this article is only a breakdown on acoustic basics (It does reference Acoustic Guitar Magazine though). I’m looking for something that is generally in the same format, but geared toward explaining the differences between the various types of acoustic guitars to choose from. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Shawn