1st Piano

by stephen Learning guitar song chords is probably one of the quickest ways someone, who has just decided to learn how to play the guitar, is able to play tons of songs new and old in the quickest time possible. Right!, now even though i said the quickest time possible, that does not mean that it is by any means easy!. For a start you will have to build tough calluses on the end of your finger tips so you can comfortably press the guitar strings down without being in pain! So how do you build your calluses up? Well it is quite simple really, what you do is learn a selection of basic simple guitar song chords, the reason you do this is so your fingers will eventually be able to hold the shape of the various chords without you having to think about it to much so you can just concentrate on playing the song. So how do you go about learning these chords? Well what you do is learn various guitar song chords which are usually presented in some sort of progression or order, th...

I recently read a Wired Magazine interview with Oliver Sacks. He is a neurologist who has written about the healing power of music . I can attest to that healing power. I think back to my childhood when my father, who wasn't a musician per say, would play the piano to put my sisters and I to sleep at night. I don't know what he played. I just remember that it was soothing. I would feel my body sinking into the bed and I would drift off to sleep with this deep knowingness of being safe. Fast forward to 2007. Here I am faced with the stress of everyday living and where do I find my sanctuary? Again, in music. So when I picked up the latest copy of Wired Magazine and saw it contained an article about how music can change your brain , I had to read it. One of the questions the interviewer, Steve Silberman, asked was, "Can playing music alter the structure of the brain?" Oliver Sacks response was, " Very strikingly. In musicians, parts of the corpus call...

by Peter Edvinsson What can you do to make it easy for yourself to practice on your guitar? In order to continue to learn to play guitar and not give up you have to create an atmosphere of joy and fun around this activity. Let's see what you can do to make it as easy as possible to play guitar. As a you boy I had a lot of interests at the same time. Reading, sporting, playing piano, playing chess, a lot of more things and, of course, playing guitar. I developed a habit to always have my guitar laying on my bed. Always as I walked into my room my guitar was laying there waiting for me. It was very easy to sit down on my bed starting to play because of two facts: 1. I could see the guitar as I walked into my room which immediately reminded me of how fun it is to play. 2. The guitar was easily accessible. The only thing I had to do in order to play the guitar was to grab it and start playing. This made it possible for me to play a lot on my guitar in spite of all other...