Find your NICHE Market

Every town throughout the world has one or two fully dedicated aspiring guitarists and bassists. These disciplined folks spend countless hours improving their craft. Their local musician community is made up of a small group of less-dedicated folks and people with divergent tastes in music.

To the truly passionate musician, sometimes this can be frustrating. The dedicated guitarists and bassists of these communities have often surpassed the ability of local teachers, and are thus on their own following their musical heroes. Although guitar tab books and guitar lesson DVDs help, trial and error becomes the primary method.

Learning with on line guitar lessons can be just as good as or better than learning off line. Instead of having just one person to learn from, you get a much wider variety of influences contributing to who you are as a musician. Enjoy the Internet boom and use it to your advantage!

(more…)

Playing the guitar is every boy’s dream even if they can’t be good at it.  In high school, it is very rare that boys will not even attempt to learn to play the guitar. For this reason, music schools are about dime-a-dozen. In every city, you will also find freelance teachers who will show young people several acoustic guitar lessons.

Although it may be said that only a few actually persevere to learn how to play the guitar, there is no shortage of good guitar players around the world. Perhaps guitar playing is more popular because guitars are cheaper than the piano.

And in the world of rock and roll culture, guitar looks manlier than other musical instruments. People want to identify with rock gods so guitar playing is almost inevitably where they go.

(more…)

Free guitar chord software is a sought after item. If you feel you must own software that can spit out every chord known to man then why not get it for free? I cannot help wondering how many variations on the basic chords a guitar player needs.

If you want to put a little variety into a song or guitar solo then a new fingering for the chords you are using is the obvious answer. In the pre-internet days we had to look through books of chord shapes which were not always readily available. With guitar chord software you can have a world of chords at your fingertips as long as you have your laptop with you.

With “Guitar Alchemist” you are able to get to know the chords of the major scale in all keys. According to the program’s website you will “easily find chords to play over any scale and vice-versa”. You can filter your chords by inversion or degree of difficulty. You can reconfigure the program for left-handed players.

(more…)