guitarflamenco77 asked:

This is “Moonlight Sonata” by Beethoven; the song was composed on piano but I still gave it a try on my classical guitar. The tab is here: www.ultimate-guitar.com Thanks for watching!

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Unhumanyouri asked:

Yes it is!

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Peter Edvinsson asked:

Let’s say you practice five hours a day on your guitar. What happens when you become a father with children around your feet. Can you still be a guitarist and practice?

As a father and a guitarist I have some advice. The story on how a mother can continue playing guitar has to be written by an expert on that subject.

I guess the problem is that many guitarists think that if they can’t practice the way they are used to they might as well quit.

What happens with you as a guitar player when you become a father with small children?

1. You will still have time to play guitar but not when you expect it.

I have many times wondered why people that practice a lot on their guitars as they become parents suddenly stops completely to play guitar and become desillusioned with this part of their lives.

It’s like a person who wants to train on a gym two hours a day. If this doesn’t work he quits completely. Why?

To make ten push ups a day is better than doing nothing. I takes maybe ten seconds to make this exercise and it will have positive results. The most important thing is that you are still trying to work with your body and the time will probably come when you can increase the amount of training.

Of course the same principle applies to guitar playing. Change the way you play but don’t quit. I’m sure your children don’t want that.

2. Time to play guitar will come in small portions.

As you don’t always know when you have time to play on your guitar you have to have your guitar or guitars extremely accessible. Have the guitar on your bed or somewhere else very close at hand. Maybe you have to buy a cheaper guitar in order to feel comfortable with this arrangement.

Personally I have an very expensive classical guitar but I mostly play on my less expensive guitars as I have them nearby all the time.

3. You might be interrupted in the middle of your guitar playing at any time.

I suggest that you give yourself a reasonable amount of homework to practice on your guitar. Try to learn this homework by heart as soon as possible so you don’t need pieces of paper around as you practice. I guess you know that small children like the taste of paper..

If you give yourself just one task to perform as your guitar lesson homework you will even with small amounts of time to practice spread all over the day see yourself progressing. The important thing is to focus on this task long enough to see results and long enough for the skills to become part of your playing.

4. You will have to concentrate on more things than your guitar playing.

If you have a long term goal with your playing you will always be able to look back on what you are doing as a guitar player and can see yourself progressing. I suggest that you put your long term guitar playing goals on a place out of reach for your children but within reach of your eyes.

5. You must feel that your guitar playing is of benefit for your wife and your children.

Is it selfish to play guitar when you have children? Let me give you an example from my own childhood:

My dad was a musician playing violin, cello and guitar in our home. He was working as a guitar teacher and I heard him play classical guitar pieces, cello pieces and violin pieces everyday.

I can still remember some of those melodies and they invoke a feeling of peace and memories of childhood in my heart. I have a special relation to those pieces of music and they have certainly enriched my life.

In other words, you will need to have a repertoire of nice melodies to play for your children. Focus on learning melodies to play and try to find opportunities to play them for your wife and children.

Having a family has certainly enriched my life and made me a better musician and guitar player.

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Guitars from Spain asked:

• Guitars normally require very little maintenance. However, a little care in handling and storage will protect your investment for many years to come.

• Never expose your guitar to high temperature and humidity. For example, don’t leave your guitar in a hot car or in direct sunlight. Typical heat damage consists of warped soundboards and unglued (detached) bridges.

• Never lean the guitar on furniture or the wall. The guitar is unstable (the lower bout is round) and can easily fall and be damaged. Always store your guitar in a case or on a guitar stand.

• Wash your hands before playing. Dirt and oil will clog and corrode the strings and diminish considerably the sound and life of your strings. To provide best protection use a guitar cover in order to avoid dirt and scratches.

• Handle the guitar only by the neck. Squeezing the top and body will damage the delicate soundboard bracing.

• Wipe your guitar off with a soft cotton or mircofiber cloth after playing. Clean and polish your guitar occasionally with a light polish. Do not use heavy paste waxes as they eventually build up into a thick, vibration muffling coating.

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Gaskell Guitars asked:


The following article does not apply to classical guitar playing which is in a separate league of it’s own and employs different principles to all other genres of guitar playing. This article is about learning to play guitar in any of the following styles: Blues, Jazz, Country, R&B, Rock, Pop, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal.

Although the guitar has been around since the beginning of the 20th Century, it wasn’t until the late 1960′s that guitar playing reached whole new levels of skill and accomplishment.

Key to this was the evolution of the electric guitar.

Up until the 1960′s what “playing the guitar” meant was basically “strumming chords.” Lead playing (playing scales) was very much still in it’s infancy. The guitar was a “strumming instrument.” 20th Century dictionaries defined the guitar as an “instrument played by strumming.”

In the early days of electric guitar (1920′s and 1930′s), electric guitars were really just glorified miked up acoustic guitars. They were played and treated as if they were acoustic guitars. It would be much later, in the 1950s, that a new thing would happen: the invention of the solid-body guitar.

During this pre-1960s primitive era, the guitar was most definitely a right handed instrument built to be strummed with the right hand and chords fingered with the left hand. The theory was that the “strong” arm of the player (being right handed) would be the one to keep the rhythm hence, the task of strumming was for the right hand. Left hand technique in those days was limited to managing finger-chords and maybe a few barre chords. Even though the approach to playing guitar back then is as outdated as black and white television, there are some aspects, attitudes, of those times that are still with us and need to be seriously re evaluated on a grand scale. What are we talking about?

Firstly, you need to refresh yourself as to what changed in the 1950′s and 1960′s.

Starting from the 1950s and peaking in the late 1960s, came a new wave of guitarists that took guitar playing to a new level. Some of those key innovaters were Chuck Berry, Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton, and many more. These innovators tried new things and were able to make the guitar do more than it had ever been required to “do” before. Two major advances were key to this era:



The advent of the solid body guitar. With solid body electric guitars such as the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul, the electric guitar was no longer a miked up acoustic guitar. You couldn’t play one without an amp! New demands were put upon guitar players. And new possibilities!



Advances in amplification were required, quickly invented or further improved in order to cope with the necessary volumes required for larger crowds, and larger concerts and festivals. Advances in amplification opened the door to advances in guitar playing: feedback, sustain, purposefully employed overdrive and distortion. Volume enabled new things to be possible.



From the late 1960′s and into the 1970s a very major advance happened: LEAD GUITAR came into it’s own. Solos, scales – and not just the tired pentatonic scale overused in Blues music. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Queen, Ted Nugent, all shaped music and gave birth to the “Rock” and “Heavy Metal” scene of the 1980s, when Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Poison, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Metallica etc etc etc. came into their own. On the other side of things, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Stevie Ray Vaughn took Blues Rock to a new level, and added took lead playing and guitar solos to new levels in that genre. The list goes on.

When Eddie Van Halen came on the scene with the song “Eruption” at the end of the 1970′s, new techniques such as “finger tapping” came to be. Now people used TWO HANDS on the fret board! The whammy bar became something else. Floyd Rose and Kahler came up with floating tremolo systems that allowed new and more extreme whammy bar techniques without driving the guitar hopelessly out of tune. There were no “dive bombs” before this time!

Where are we going with this?

Today, skilled guitar playing is beyond anything that ever was imagined in the primitive pre-1960′s era when guitar was only a “strumming instrument.”

With lead guitar, there is more demand on the players ability to get around the fret board.

It’s no longer about strumming chords! It hasn’t been for a very long time! You can still be very mediocre and be a “strummer” if you want to, but for those who want to get good at playing guitar there is a change of thinking required.

This is the mentality that needs a total overhaul here: Right handed people are still being taught to play “right handed” guitars. This is AN OBSOLETE, DATED AND DEFUNCT ACTIVITY!

To become a really good guitarist a right handed person needs to learn how to play guitar “left handed.” This means that the right handed person’s “strong” hand plays the fretboard. Why would you put your “weak” (left) hand to the hardest task in playing guitar?

Here is an example in reverse: one of the greatest guitarists ever is the incredible Gary Moore. He plays a right handed guitar. But is he right handed? No, he is a left handed person playing a right handed guitar. And how many people can play like he? Reverse this and consider how “good” you could be if you were a right handed person playing a left handed guitar? You could possibly become as good as Gary Moore, or any of the many many Guitar gods who are really left handed people who play right handed guitar.

This is not a coincidence.

Right handed people need to learn to play guitar left handed if they want to take guitar playing to levels beyond “strumming. ” PARENTS TAKE NOTE. This rests with you in the main. If your kid wants to become a “great guitarist”, get them a left handed guitar, if they are right handed and give them a right handed guitar if they are left handed.

Do this and lo and behold: NEW VISTAS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN PLAYING GUITAR ARE POSSIBLE. We live in the 21st Century and guitar playing is nothing like it was in the Stone Age of the pre-1960s.



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Namsing Then asked:

You rarely, if ever, come across a guy or a girl who hasn’t heard of guitar, let alone see it or play it. Not a surprise, if you knew the history which has thrown up countless styles of this stringed instrument. It runs for over 5000 years, pictures and figurines are reclaimed from Iranian sites that depict playing instruments similar to guitars.

But why could it retain its popularity for so long a time? It is not mysterious to answer this question, at all. Guitars acclimate perfectly well with classical styles as it does with popular and rock styles, play it as a solo instrument or use as an accompaniment, it is fine. It is also fine to choose guitars with six, eight, ten or even 12 strings, as you like. In a nut shell, guitar is a great escape when you are lonely and depressed.

Types of Guitars

There are just two types to divide guitars.

1.Acoustic type: These classic guitars are fondly known as Hawaiian guitars too. They don’t need outside inputs to amplify the acoustics but can do so themselves, even though they are now a day available fitted with electric gadgets to power the amplification needs. What still beckons is the loudness which is absent.

2.Electric type: Electric guitars pickup mechanical vibrations of strings for amplification by first picking them up via radio or electric signals and then amplifying. The built-in electronic part of the guitar uses semiconductor chips to manage the whole thing unlike the vacuum diodes and valves of the yester era. If you are interested, the electric guitars score over their poor country cousins, the classic acoustic guitars, in many ways such as tapping, hammer-on, legato and pull-offs to name a few.

There are countless sub varieties that combine the plusses of both or otherwise simply stand out. There are hybrid guitars that combine acoustic and electric guitars. Don’t be surprised to see double necked or a 5.1 surround guitar too.

Guitar and the Beginner

Don’t worry if you are challenged for time these days. You can easily find a guitar lesson designed especially for the beginners over the internet. Although this calls for greater dedication and passion as opposed to being taught by a musician, you have the comfort of making your time table, beginning where you want to, and the complete absence of that embarrassed feel in the beginning when you produce some funny noises plucking your strings.

Saddle up again guitar is all about spicing up life.

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blitzwater asked:

Tabs from archard. www.gametabs.net A long time ago this video was messed up. I had to constantly email YouTube to fix it. It took about 1 month.

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guitarflamenco77 asked:

This is “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton played on my classical guitar. The song was arranged by Per-Olov Kindgren. I learned this song by watching him and a few acoustic covers. You can buy the tab and lesson here: www.per-olovkindgren.com

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