The “wiggle” or vibrato in playing slide guitar is very important! The “wiggle” can make the difference between a sterile, almost out of tune note and a note that almost has a singing quality to it! __(’Read the rest of this entry »’)
For many years, I just used standard tuning on my guitar when I played slide. E-A-D-G-B-E. I mainly used the slide to play the slide-lead guitar part of a song, playing chords during the rhythm parts with my other three fingers or just putting on the slide right before the lead. __(’Read the rest of this entry »’)
Okay, so you wanna play bass guitar and you want to play your favorite songs right away. Your first thought? Look it up on the internet or buy a book. That works fine if you can read music; however if it all looks like a bunch of squiggly figures and sticks; don’t fret (pun intended). There is another way to do things that might look equally chaotic at first but will have you on your way to rock stardom overnight (all good things happen overnight don’t they?).
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Most songs are written in a certain key, such as C or Eb. This means that that the chords and melody notes will be drawn primarily from the scale of that chord. In other words, if a song is written in the key of E major, then the notes and chords will be constructed primarily from the E major scale.
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MIDI, developed around 1982, stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It’s original intention was to let 2 or more synthesizers communicate with one another. Since then it has grown in popularity and can do much more than just hook two keyboards together.
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