Tag Archives: Guitar Lesson
Standard Tuning Part II: Tuning Using Relative String Pitch
Posted on by Craig Canon.
Here’s my second “how to tune a guitar” video filmed a couple years ago. It’s a short tutorial on how to tune a guitar when you don’t have a tuner, applying the knowledge of how each string should sound relative to the other adjacent strings. Leave a comment below to let us know your favorite [...]
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Fake Any Song Lesson 3: I, IV and V, Three Chords You Need to Know
Posted on by Craig Canon.
Here’s the final installment of how to fake any song in 3 lessons. Craig shows how to find the root (I Chord), and then identify the IV and V chords of any song, enabling you to fake your way through thousands of country, rock and roll and other popular songs. I’ve tried to pack as [...]
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Standard Tuning Part I: Using an Electronic Tuner
Posted on by Craig Canon.
Thanks for the feedback on the Open D tuning video. Since viewing the post last week, a few of you have emailed to ask for tips on tuning the guitar to standard tuning. There are several ways to do this. The most common is to use an electronic guitar tuner. Anyway, I filmed a short [...]
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Fake Any Song – Lesson 1: Open D Tuning
Posted on by Craig Canon.
I’ve been working on a series of videos aimed at taking a complete newbie through faking almost any straightforward pop/rock/country song in 3 lessons. This is the test of my “get good enough fast enough, and you’ll stick with it longer” theory. My hope is that you’ll be able to take these lessons, learn the [...]
