Guitar Therapy

Intro Your first impression on this topic might deceive you, but not if you knew how I simplify it to just two types of guitar players. To me, there are either [1] Melodic guitarists, or [2] Harmonic guitarists. You can categorize a guitarist into two parts, unlike the countless sub-genres we have in music is because it's the two different styles, you can actually play the instrument. That's it. I hope I've not lost you there. Please bear with me and read on; it will be apparent very soon. Step one is understanding the difference between melodic and harmonic guitar parts. Melodic Guitarists My definition of a melodic guitar player would be someone who plays the guitar to produce a melodic music piece. A melodic music piece is just a melody, a single line of music. For example, a violin is a melodic instrument because you cannot play other strings in unison [or in harmonic - we will get to it in the next point], you have to play a melodic piece but using one s...

I started playing guitar at the age of 11. I'm mostly self-taught as I grew in my teen years not until I was 14 did I see a computer connect to the world wide web for the forts time ever. Unlike now we never had any sources of knowledge, then it was only what you can find in books; sometime in the early 90s' I bought a VHS tape of Marty Friedman about exotic scales, that taught me so much that I use what he taught on that tape even today. When you are obsessed with anything, you will eventually become good at it. Luckily for me, it all very easy. I absorbed everything I found on books, taught myself to read guitar tablature and started becoming good that I started leaving the friends I began to play behind, and join other older guys much who were much better. But it was a dull time to be teenagers as there almost no platform for local musicians to showcase their talents. There would be infrequent shows here and there, and unfortunately, if you were a local band covering Hindi...

The first step for any guitar student is to learn the way the guitar is tuned. Majority of guitar players have their instruments to tuned to the standard tuning. The standard tuning is, starting from the top string, E, A, D, G, B, E. To remember this we use the time tested mythological phrase - "Every Able Dog Gets Beef Everyday".

By the end of this post, you will be able to know the parts of the guitar. You will also understand the value behind knowing the mechanics and the parts of your guitar as the first step to building a solid foundation & learning your new instrument. Those of you who love racing would have seen the recent movie that came late 2019,  Ford v Ferrari . Not a bad film. More importantly, it shows the genius of British race car driver and mechanic, Ken Miles portrayed by Christian Bale in the movie. The pivotal reason for Ken Miles being such a legendary driver was also because of his mechanical background. See he helped develop the racing car Ford came up to battle Ferrari for the  Le Mans , his understanding of the mechanics of the car allowed him to be a super ace driver. Just like Ken Miles, if you know how the guitar and the mechanics and physics of the instrument, it would be a solid foundation for you to become an ace guitar player. Just as good as ken Miles was a dri...

As a new aspiring guitarist, one of the first questions you will ask yourself is, "So, where do I start?" In this era of information, you will find loads of data on the web; on Youtube and online content, it easy to get lost in it. Why do we even need a coach when you can study online? Of course, you can, and if you have the talent for music, you will eventually learn as I did. When I grew up and was a teenager of 11 years when I started playing guitar, we never had the content freely available nowadays, all on your fingertips. There was a time my new guitar friends and I will visit an older peer who plays guitar well; we will do him favors or give him cigarettes so that he will teach us the new cool scale or the new Steve Vai fretting exercises that will 'super-speed up' your fingers etc. We would absorb any teeny tiny bit of information on guitar we could find, or anyone would teach us, and play it to shreds. Hell, I remember the first time I bought a full cou...

Join   Guitar Therapy   today!!  - One to One classes I'm graduate from the International College of Music [ICOM] in Malaysia [the year 2006] and been in the Audio production field for 14 years. My primary instrument is the guitar and has experience of 29 years of playing and also teaching friends. I also have formal training in the pre-foundation of music theory, composition, and music production. My commercial works include audio post-production for TV ads, recording & mixing for local artists, and I also played guitar for band Kushehnooney's album 'Lah', which can be heard on Baiskoafu. I run my 0own audio production label called SellingKarma Productions [S.K Producitions]. I have had the privilege to work alongside with musical talents such as Meyna Hassan, Flu-Nashid, Affan, Dimba Ishantey, Kushehnooney, Appi, Kayano, and many more on various occasions. My biggest career milestone stone being working for a live gig as crew for James Brown concert,...

Greetings all string-pulling, jumping, slamming, ass-kicking, ax-wielding musicians. This is for all of you guitar freaks out there! Don't be fooled so easily though, my private coaching sessions do not only cover guitar, but also music theory, learning pathways to advancing your music skills, composition, and basics of arrangements as well. So whether you want to shred out, or learn to write your own songs on your guitar, you are at the right place. It's in a long time we are making, and I think it's finally time to give it away for the new generation. First, before I go any further, I want to say that I'm not a guitar guru, nor a music maestro, I consider myself always as a student of music. Yes, my primary instrument is music, and I also play piano, drums a little bit, and the bass as every guitarist would or should. I've been playing for 29 years and have enough experience teaching not only guitar but music production as well. I have formal education in mus...