guitar tabs / all updates / news / reviews / interviews / columns / lessons / forums / contests / ug.TV / my profile  
Ultimate-Guitar.Com - over 150,000 guitar tabs, bass tabs, guitar pro tabs and chords!
category: The Basics
search for: in
 
advanced + submit your tab

+ submit your review

+ submit your article
fresh tabs / 0-9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z / top 100 tabs
 the basics:
Modes II, rating: 9.4
Welcome to lesson on modes. In this lesson, I'll be explaining everything about modes. From what they are, how they are made, and how you can use them.

POSTED: 10/03/2007 - 08:29 am

 
Basic To Advanced Tuning, rating: 9.1
This lesson assumes you have no knowedge of tuning, and will taker you through the basics of note adjustment all the way to relative resonant tuning.

POSTED: 07/01/2005 - 08:09 am

 
Rhythm Guitar. Part 1- Powerchords, rating: 9.1
Heres to powerchords! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about them, in this multi part series on Rhythm Guitar!

POSTED: 07/01/2005 - 07:59 am

 
Arpeggios Guide. Part 2 - Soloing With Arpeggios, rating: 7.7
Part 2 of a series lesson on arpeggios. This introduces soloing with arpeggios and and techniques to use them.

POSTED: 07/01/2005 - 07:49 am

 
Arpeggios Guide. Part 1 - Learn Your Arpeggios, rating: 9.3
Learn you arpeggios, how to make them and use them!

POSTED: 04/12/2005 - 07:22 am

 
Diminished Chords And Scales, rating: 9.3
A brief look at the use of diminished chords and scales within several different genres.

POSTED: 02/10/2005 - 10:23 am

 
The Basics. Part 6, rating: 7.8
The Basics Extended. This lesson teaching you how to write songs and create your own chord progressions.

POSTED: 01/27/2005 - 09:36 am

 
The Basics. Part 5, rating: 7.8
The final of my five basic lessons. This lesson extends the key of major scales!

POSTED: 01/27/2005 - 09:34 am

 
The Basics. Part 4, rating: 7
The fourth of my five basic lessons. This lesson covering an extention of lead guitar and the major scale.

POSTED: 01/27/2005 - 09:32 am

 
The Basics. Part 3, rating: 8.1
The thrid of my five basic lessons. This lesson covering rhythm and lead guitar.

POSTED: 01/27/2005 - 09:30 am

 
Arpeggios, rating: 7.5
A variety of different patterns to play arpeggios.

POSTED: 10/12/2004 - 12:00 am

 
Palm Muting ll, rating: 8.4
Direct instructions on how palm muting is done.

POSTED: 09/23/2004 - 07:59 am

 
The Circle Of Fifths: Music Theory For Dummies, rating: 8.4
Circle Of Fifths can help you as a guitarist when you get stuck trying to write a song or stuck trying to figure a song out by ear.

POSTED: 07/21/2004 - 03:07 am

 
The Basics. Part 2, rating: 9.7
The second issue of my five basic lessons. This one covering chords.

POSTED: 07/15/2004 - 05:55 am

 
The Basics. Part 1, rating: 9.5
The one of five of my basic lessons. This one covering pic holding, guitar holding (positioning), strumming, picking basic chord, progression and basic picking progression.

POSTED: 04/30/2004 - 10:49 am

 
Left Hand Dexternity, rating: 9.1
Building strength and speed in your left hand means being a better player!

POSTED: 04/21/2004 - 07:39 am

 
Music Dictionary, rating: 7.9
What is aeolean, or enharmonic or even tonal? The more you know, the better. Definitions to either add to your memory or to refresh it. Just give it a look.

POSTED: 01/20/2004 - 07:12 am

 
Scales With Chords, Modes, Arpeggios, rating: 5.3
Today we are going to discuss how to figure out what scales to play with any given chord, modes, arpeggios and soloing.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 07:22 am

 
Major And Pentatonic Scales, rating: 3.7
Today we are going to talk about it in a little more detail. We will also discuss the Pentatonic scale.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 07:21 am

 
Learning To Play Songs, rating: 5.9
As a start you should get as many recordings, song books and copies of sheet music of all of your favorite songs and start learning them one by one. This is a very important step in your learning process and it will quickly help you to become a better guitar player.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Modes. Part 3 - Counterpoint, rating: 5.5
The music of the sixteenth century is based upon the so-called ecclesiastical modes, a system of modes that existed in the music of western Europe from the origin of the Latin Church and dominated music until the seventeenth century.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 06:28 am

 
Modes. Part 2: What Is Important To Learn About Modes?, rating: 6.6
What is important to learn about modes? The answer to this question lies in the structure of the various modes and in their use.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 06:24 am

 
Modes. Part 1 - History And Use, rating: 8.7
This gives respect to the wonderful world of modes.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 06:23 am

 
Palm Muting, rating: 3.1
Palm muting is a widely used technique, but hard to get down when you first start playing. It's popularly used with power chords to get a "beefy" sound.

POSTED: 11/24/2003 - 04:45 am

 
Leech Lessons. Part 4 - Arepeggiating Chord Progressions, rating: 6.3
I think arpeggiating chord progressions is a great way to get to know the fretboard better. The chords can be just triad voicings, but of course the whole thing gets way more interesting.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:10 am

 
Leech Lessons. Part 3 - Legato & Sweep, rating: 5.3
Legato & Sweep exersises in Ebmaj9 Dm7b5 G+7 Cm9 scheme.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:09 am

 
Leech Lessons. Part 2 - Arpeggios, rating: 3.5
Some arpeggios on a jazz chord progression in Cm.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:07 am

 
Leech Lessons. Part 1 - 120 Of 120 5 Tone Permutations, rating: 4.1
Here are 120 of the 120 permutations for any 5 tone motif or scale. This is just an "order of notes analysis" to give you an idea of how the concept really works.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:07 am

 
Tips and Advices. Part 5 - How Much Is Enough?, rating: 7.1
How much is enough? Never! It's never enough! Well, okay, sometimes it is. If it's burning you out or you are damaging your tendons, it's too much.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:03 am

 
Tips and Advices. Part 4 - Practice Routine, rating: 8
Actually, I don't have one. After you achieve a level of proficiency, for the most part you can simply maintain it by playing. Well, okay, I don't always do that. If I don't play for a few weeks, I've gotta sit down and focus for a while to get things moving again.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:03 am

 
Tips and Advices. Part 3 - Practice, rating: 7
I saw a Steve Vai lecture/workshop, which had been taped at Musician’s Institute years ago. He was saying something along the lines of, you’ve got to practice 12 hours a day.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:02 am

 
Tips and Advices. Part 2 - Balance Vs Burnout, rating: 9.1
Here I’ll talk a little more about those two important motivators I mentioned previously. Again, they are 1) the music itself and 2) our own personal improvement.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:02 am

 
Tips And Advices. Part 1 - The Key To Success, rating: 9.1
The key to success is inspiration. If you keep yourself inspired and motivated, and avoid getting burned out and discouraged, you’ll keep learning. There will be no end to it. This might seem obvious, but it is often misunderstood.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 06:01 am

 
Basic Guitar Knowledge, rating: 8.8
This lesson will give basic knowledge of the guitar such as scales, chords, and simple theory.

POSTED: 10/15/2003 - 05:49 am

 
Chromatic Warm-Up, rating: 7.4
These are a few helpful finger exercises. It will create a complex muscle memory on your fingers as well as develope more dexterity in it.

POSTED: 09/20/2003 - 12:00 am

 
Using 6-string As A 7-string Guitar, rating: 8.6
Using A Six-String Guitar As A Seven String. You`ll find here a couple of options how to make this.

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Guitar Tunings, rating: 8.6
Do you want to know how to tune your guitar? Do you wanna know what is Drop D tuning? Do you wanna know hows tuned Slipknots guitars? Read this lesson now!

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Chords Scales And Positions, rating: 9
You will learn chords scales and positions.

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Eight Simple Lessons, rating: 2.8
Eight simple and effective lessons from Dionisio Aguado.

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Finger Stretch, rating: 6.5
Fingerbuilding technique. Improve your fingers!

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Notes On Basic Tunings, rating: 7.9
The list of the notes on the most common used tunings: Standard, Drop D and Drop C. This comes in handy when transcribing music from different tunings.

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Capo, rating: 7
What is this? Why use capo and how to play with this?

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Knowing The Neck, rating: 6.6
As a young guitarist I had a few fancy licks, but I always envied the freedom of movement I saw when I'd watch more experienced guitarists play. I'd see guys moving in and out of modes, up and down the neck with their eyes closed and think "how the flippidy bucking hell do you do that?"

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 
Navigating The Neck, rating: 9.6
No greater day can dawn for a young guitarist than the day they first discover that "I know the neck!!" It's what a teacher of mine called the "aha" moment - where you stop seeing individual frets and notes and names of chords and scales and start seeing music.

POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am

 

About

Help/FAQ

Terms of Use

Privacy Policy

RSS Feeds  

Site Map

Link To Us

Tell A Friend

Advertising Info

Job Opportunities

Contact Us

Ultimate-Guitar.Com © 2007