Matthew Iovane

Matthew iovane  — One of the things that makes learning the guitar so simple is the ease in which music can be written down and understood by a complete novice with no other musical experience. This form of musical notation is known as Guitar Tab. Guitar Tab is short for guitar tablature. You will find hundreds if not thousands of resources online containing any tabs you could possibly wish to find. Music stores are packed with tab books containing songs from your favourite bands or artists right through to instructional books teaching you how to take your guitar playing to the next level. Matthew iovane  — Understanding how to read guitar tablature is extremely simple. The only difficult part about it is training your fingers to play what you read! This can be one of the hardest aspects for a new guitarist to get their head around as fingers are not used to moving in this odd way. Keep persisting with it and soon your fingers will be doing what they are told! Guita...

Coming up with a list of the best guitarists of all time can be a challenging task, as it is often quite subjective and taking into consideration that there are many genres to choose from such as blues, jazz, rock, funk and classical. Speaking of classical, the first guitarist that comes to my mind is Andre Segovia. He was known as the "Master of Classical Guitar". Moving from the classical realm to gypsy jazz and flamenco, Paco De Lucia and Django Reinhardt come to mind. I realize that I am jumping around quite a bit (listing the best guitarists is a bit of a stream of consciousness exercise) and I want to cover as many of my favorites here as possible. I was heavily influenced by the jazz fusion guitarists of the seventies and eighties by artists such as Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, John Scofeild, Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck, Alan Holds worth and Scott Henderson. In the straight-ahead jazz world, a few of my favorites are Wes Montgomery, Les Paul, Pat ...

Brides-to-be put in countless hours of work to make her upcoming wedding perfect. While these weeks are among the most nerve-wracking period in any woman's life, doing this right can be very rewarding as well. One of the important decisions during this period deals with choosing the right wedding guitarist. To help brides-to-be in the wedding preparation, let us lay down the considerations one must attend to in booking the right wedding guitarist. Type of Guitarists Wedding guitarists uses different types of guitars. The most common are the classical nylon-string guitar and the steel-string guitar. A nylon-string guitar produces a calm and soothing music. Sometimes classical guitars are also called Spanish guitars. Steel-string acoustic guitars, on the other hand, are known for producing music which has a more defined and sharper sound. So how to choose between the two types of guitarists? The answer lies with the types of music you want to be played during your...