#6 Practicing the Diminished Arpeggio

Hi guys!

Today, I'm going to explain about the diminished arpeggio, which is kind of like what I posted last week.

Last week, I posted about practicing the chromatic scale, which was a basic practice before learning the guitar. (Even for intermediate and advanced level guitarists!)

I think that many of you had a hard time practicing the chromatic scale. But if you guys practiced enough, try practicing today's lesson too.

The specific explanations are in the video, but to make it short, practicing diminished arpeggios is one of the best ways to get your fingers flexible.

Take a close look at the left and right hands of the man in the video, and try to mimic it as well as you can.

Even if you feel it's really hard for you, don't change the ways of playing, but work harder to do just exactly as the man does.

Even experts practice the chromatic scale and arpeggios VERY VERY often, so get used to them, and you will be able to do a really good job later!!

#5 Practicing the Chromatic Scale

The "Chromatic Scale" is one of the most basic step before learning the guitar. Even famous guitar players practice it everyday, to make their fingers more flexible and well-prepared.

By practicing the chromatic scale, you are gonna be able to perform hard tricks and the accuracy your fingering will improve. In other words it's a real good way to improve your skills!

But aware! Too much practice of this might make you lose interest in playing the guitar!

Alright first of all, "chromatic" means semitones. So practicing the chromatic scale is just like playing all the notes in the piano starting from C.

This is the guitar TAB explaining the chromatic scale.

The basic steps are explained in the video that I posted, so look at it and practice it!

Everyone can become great guitarists! 

#4 How to Tune the Guitar

Hey guys! It's kind of my bad that this post should have been posted earlier before explaining basic chords.

This part is the most basic and fundamental part of learning a guitar, because knowing how to tune leads to playing the guitar in clean and right notes.

Prior to learning how to tune, let's go over the syllable names.

As you might know, there are basically 7 types of notes in music: Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, La, Si(Ti).

In other ways, we say this as C D E F G A B C (In the same order)

These are more modern ways to express these, and u MUST remember these in order to learn the guitar.

Alright. Now we go to tuning. Basically, there are 6 strings in the guitar, and from the thinnest to the thickest, we label them 1-6. So the thickest is string 6, and the thinnest will be string 1.

The following are the sounds each strings should make.

6: E

5: A

4: D

3: G

2: B

1: E

Since the orders of the strings are 6 to 1 when you hold the guitar, I wrote it like that. Also, it is more stable to tune the thicker strings when tuning, so first tune string 6 into E.

As you see, if you turn the key counterclockwise, the strings are tightened, thus making a higher sound. If you see the tuner, tighten them until the hands reach the middle. So for string 6, you turn it till E.

Same thing for string 5. You turn it counterclockwise to get "A".

For string 4, same thing. Get "D" by turning the key counterclockwise.

For the left 3 strings located on the right side of the head, you turn them clockwise. So for string 3, get "G"

Same thing. Get "B" for string 2.

Last, string 1. Same as usual, turn it clockwise to get "E".

There is one thing you must be careful of , because if you turn the key too fast or strong, the string might be cut off, so you must be careful.

With a tuner, everyone can tune the guitar, and if you do not, there are a lot of free smartphone apps you can use to tune the guitar, so good luck everyone!