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By: Matt Schaeffer George’s Music Meaning “box,” “crate,” or “drawer” in Spanish, cajóns are becoming ever more popular in today’s music.  Developed in the early 19th century, the cajón was used mostly by slaves to get around the ban of musical instruments in different colonies; because the player sat on the instrument, they could easily [...]

By: Kevin Manieri George’s Music Discover (and Play) New Music! Ever feel like your playing is stuck in a rut?  Or maybe your technique is OK, but it’s your music collection that is feeling stale.  Listening to and learning new music is a habit that will broaden your musical horizons and make you a better [...]

By Ben Blakesley George’s Music Am  -  G  -  F  -  G… What song is that? If you said “All Along the Watchtower,” you’re right! If you said “Stairway to Heaven,” you’re right! If you said “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” you’re right! If you said you’re noticing a pattern here, you’re right! Any musician who [...]

By Ben Blakesley George’s Music Guitarist 1, “Hey, do you know how to play [insert cool song here]?” Guitarist 2, “No.” Guitarist 1, “No prob, I’ll send you the tab and we can jam on it next week.” Guitarist 2 (thinking to himself), “Crap.  How do you read tab?” If you’ve ever found your self [...]

By Ben Blakesley George’s Music We’ve all been there.  This song doesn’t work for us in the key in which it was written.  Something needs to change. But how? What is this mysterious “Transposing” that can magically change the key of a song? It’s a lot simpler than you might imagine.  No magic involved. Let [...]

12th November 2008 Author: ozguitarplayer In my last article, Guitar Chord Theory – Hang-in There Its a Long Story we looked at scales and the order of steps and half-steps that are used to make a scale. If you haven’t read it you probably should as it will make this article much easier to follow. [...]

Hang-in There It’s A Long Story 12th November 2008 Author: ozguitarplayer The Notes. When we count we go from1 to 10 and repeat that pattern of 10 by going from11 to 20, and 21 – 3 and so on. In music we use the alphabet instead of numbers and it is A B C D [...]