Acoustic Guitar Lessons
Tips & Tricks

- Pick up something new quickly
- Lack of time won't stop you from making progress
- Time Required: 15 - 30 Minutes
- Recommended For: Intermediate - Advanced
While I Daydream - Explained - Part 2
Here we are to the second part of the song.This part is strummed meaning it's not played note by note as the first part. Strumming requires you to have a relaxed wrist. The secret to a good strumming is to be able to get your hand as relaxed as possible without loosing your pick :) . If you're too tight, you won't get the same attack on the strings and it won't sound the same. The strings are stru...
While I Daydream
Acoustic Breeze
Soft Jam
A nice little acoustic soft jam loop to practice scales or leads over. You can find this one in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. The basic chords are shown in the above image and it's played using fingerpicking. Behind the above chords is an acoustic guitar playing basic open chords. The mp3 below is an isolated guitar track showing how to play the chords above. Here is a little more detaile...
Acoustic Essentials - Sixes
Knowing sixes on the acoustic can open up a whole world of acoustic playing. Sixes (6ths) refers to the seperation of these notes. Counting from one note to the next, in order if you like. For example, if D is 1 then B is 6 (D-1, E-2, F#-3, G-4, A-5, B-6). If we use E as 1 then C becomes 6, if F# as 1 then D is 6. If this doesn't make sense then don't worry because what's really important i...
Fingerpicking Song IV
Yet another section from one of my hack attempts at music. This one's interesting because the melody is harmonized and has a little up and down slide thing that I like to use. I use my index finger to alternate pick those fast runs at the end, but that's cheating! I imagine the "classical" way to do it is alternate you're index/middle finger for those runs, so try to learn it that way (i promis...
Acoustic Lick 1
This is a nice little run mixing hammer-ons and legato slides. Look at the first pattern. It consist for two hammer-ons followed by a slide. Practice this pattern until the sequence is flowing. Start by doing the hammer-ons on the two strings so that you can play them without any pause. After that include the slide.The next pattern is basically the same but instead of going down the scale you're c...
Country Fried Chords
Here is a cool way to spice up a C chord with hammer-ons and pull-offs. It is frequently played this way in country and bluegrass music. In my example I tuned all the strings down a full step, so it's actually a B-flat major chord pitchwise. You can try this with other open chords too, like Am, G, D, etc. Have Fun!
Graphic Of Notes On Fretboard
Peaceful Acoustic
Trick of the Week - February 8, 1999
I was having so much fun with Al Gendron's January 25th Trick of the Week that I wrote one of my own using the same tuning but no slide. It reminds me of a Led Zeppelin tune, but I can't remember which one. In order to play it you have to retune your guitar. If you are a beginner you may not want to do this. You might break a string by tuning too far. If you do decide to retune,...









