https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/Recent content in Guitar on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/meet-the-guitar/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/meet-the-guitar/The parts of a guitar, from the headstock to the bridge, how the six strings are numbered, and the difference between steel-string, nylon-string and electric guitars.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/holding-the-guitar/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/holding-the-guitar/How to sit with a guitar, where each hand goes, how to press a string so it rings clearly, how to hold a pick, and how to look after your hands.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/tuning/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/tuning/How to tune a guitar to E A D G B E: with the microphone tuner, by ear with reference notes, and by the 5th-fret method, string against string.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/reading-tab/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/reading-tab/Guitar tablature: six lines for six strings, numbers for frets, how rhythm is shown under the tab, and how tab and standard notation fit together.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/chord-charts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/chord-charts/How to read a guitar chord diagram: strings and frets, dots and finger numbers, open and muted strings, barres and fret numbers.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/first-notes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/first-notes/Picking single notes on the top three strings: the notes E, F, G on string 1, B, C, D on string 2 and G, A on string 3, with down strokes and alternate picking, and a first tune.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/first-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/first-chords/Four easy chords that share the same finger shapes: E minor, A minor, E major and A major, how to make every string ring, and a first strum.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/campfire-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/campfire-chords/The three chords behind thousands of folk, country and cowboy songs: G, C and D, plus D7 and G7, and how they belong together in the key of G.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/strumming/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/strumming/How to strum in time: down strums on the beat, down-up eighths, the folk strum with its missed stroke, and accents and muted chucks.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/changing-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/changing-chords/How to move from one chord to the next without stopping the beat: anchor fingers, moving all fingers together, letting go early, and one-minute changes.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/waltz-and-boom-chuck/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/waltz-and-boom-chuck/The country and cowboy way to accompany a song: a bass note followed by a strum. The waltz in 3/4 and the boom-chuck with an alternating bass in 4/4.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/twelve-bar-blues/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/twelve-bar-blues/The twelve-bar blues in E: the chord pattern behind countless blues songs, the E7, A7 and B7 chords, the two-string shuffle and swing eighths.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/notes-on-the-neck/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/notes-on-the-neck/Finding every natural note in first position, sharps and flats on the fretboard, octaves, and how tab and standard notation show the same music.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/fingerpicking/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/fingerpicking/Playing with the fingers instead of a pick: the thumb on the bass strings, index, middle and ring on the top strings, arpeggio patterns, and a first classical prelude.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/classical-guitar/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/classical-guitar/Playing a tune and a bass together, the way classical guitarists do: free strokes and rest strokes, letting notes ring, reading two voices, and pieces by Carulli and Sor.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/f-and-barre-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/f-and-barre-chords/The F chord in three steps, from a small four-string F to the full barre, B minor and B7, and how to make a barre ring without squeezing.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/movable-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/movable-chords/Barre chords as movable shapes: the E shape with its root on string 6, the A shape with its root on string 5, minor and seventh versions, and power chords.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/scales/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/scales/The C and G major scales in first position, the A minor pentatonic box at the 5th fret, the blues scale, and how scales help you play tunes and improvise.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/blues-techniques/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/blues-techniques/The left-hand tricks that make the blues talk: hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and bends, and the steady-thumb fingerpicking of the early country blues.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/travis-picking/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/travis-picking/Alternating-thumb fingerpicking: the thumb swings between two bass strings on every beat while the index and middle fingers pick between them, with pinches and a melody on top.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/spanish-guitar/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/spanish-guitar/The sound of Spanish guitar: the Andalusian cadence (Am, G, F, E), the step from F to G-sharp, rest strokes, a first rasgueado, and the triplet arpeggio of the Spanish Romance.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/capo-and-keys/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/capo-and-keys/How a capo raises the open strings so the same chord shapes play in a new key, how to find the right capo fret for a singer, and natural harmonics at frets 12, 7 and 5.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/practice-and-next-steps/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/guitar/practice-and-next-steps/How to practice guitar well in twenty minutes a day, looking after your hands and your strings, and where to go next with the songs on this site.