May 2024

Electric guitars are made with solid, semi-hollow, and hollow bodies. Using an instrument cable (or wireless system) the guitar is plugged into an amplifier. Without an amp, electric guitars make very little musical sound. Most modern electric guitars have 6, 7, or even 8 strings though different variations can be seen on custom electric guitars. […]

Minor Pentatonic Scale Basics

To tune your guitar from Standard Tuning to Open G: drop the low E (6th) string one step down to D drop the A (5th) string one step down to G drop the high E (1st) string one step down to D the order of strings from low to high should be DGDGBD Most open […]

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The CAGED Method is used to find guitar chords for any root note up and down the fretboard of the guitar. Connecting the open chord shapes in the order of C-A-G-E-D, you can find where guitar chords and their root notes repeat on different areas of the guitar fretboard. More on the CAGED Method