What is Fingerstyle Guitar technique?

For those of you who are just starting to learn to play guitars, you may not know what the Fingerstyle Guitar technique is. For this lesson I will be a little review about Fingerstyle technique.

Fingerstyle Guitar is one of the techniques to play guitars by strumming a guitar with fingertips or by using other tools without using a pick or plectrum.

Fingerstyle guitar technique is a standard guitar technique of the classical guitar is played by using nylon guitars.

Guitar playing technique where bass line, melody, percussion and harmony accompaniment played simultaneously with just one Fingerstyle guitars techniques.

With this guitar technique is the greatest potential of the guitar as a musical instrument can be used where the melody, bass line and harmony accompaniment can be combined and played at the same time to create a complete musical, rich harmony like a symphony. With this technique functions of the guitars can match the piano music.

Knowing the proper body position in playing guitar

I think these are basic guitar tips to knowing the proper body position in playing guitar, so you can play the guitar comfortably and will be easier to move the hand and fingers in playing the guitar.

Here are three basic body positions in playing the classical guitar / solo guitar:

1. Playing guitar while sitting

Basically, in playing the classical guitar we play the melody and bass simultaneously. Sitting position is very ideal and easier than playing guitar while standing. Does not mean in playing solos guitar you are required to sit, but it does not matter if you are more comfortable playing the guitar solo while standing.

2. Sitting using treadle/footstool

Highly recommended to use a treadle or footstool, this is to prevent the guitar fell out of your left foot.

3. Guitar propped up with your left foot

To strengthen the position of your body in playing the guitar, the bottom of the guitar propped up with your left foot, so your left hand will be more free to move.

Here is an example of the correct body position in playing guitar :

Top 10 most expensive guitar in the world

For some people having a nice and very special guitar is a matter of pride even though the price of the guitar is very expensive and does not make sense to buy. Especially for collector’s guitar or a guitarist rock star, they will not question the price of the guitar they want.

Here is the top 10 most expensive guitar in the world:

1. Fender Stratocaster Guitar Reach Out to Asia, into the ranks of world's most expensive guitar. Fender Stratocaster Reach Out to Asia auctioned at the event to raise funds for tsunami disaster social Aceh, Indonesia in 2005. This guitar is sold for a very fantastic prize $ 2.7 million, the body of a guitar signed by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams.

2. 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix second most expensive in the world has ever seen. This guitar was played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969, this guitar is priced at $ 2 million.

3. Washburn Custom 22 Series belongs to Bob Marley. Guitars are now the country's national assets are a guitar owned Jamaica Reggae icon Bob Marley. This guitar Marley ever given to a guitar technician in Vancouver on 21 November 1971, an estimated price of this guitar is worth $ 1.2 million - $ 2 million.

4. Eric Clapton C.F. Martin & Co, 1939. Eric Clapton's guitar donated to the International Red Cross, sold for $ 791.500.

5. Blackie - Fender Stratocaster Guitar Hybrid 1970, Eric Clapton turned to the guitar fender Gibson because of previous uses his admiration for Jimi Hendrix. Clapton bought six guitars for each costing 100 dollars. 3 guitars given to George Harrison, Pete Townshend and Steve Winwood. Then the rest he uses himself and named Blackie guitar is priced at $ 595,000.

6. Gibson ES0335 belongs to Eric Clapton in 1964 with prices $ 847,500. Eric Clapton guitar use this since 1964, but rarely used after the guitar is offered at a price of $ 847,500 at an auction. This is the highest price ever at auction Gibson guitar at the time.

7. Lenny - Fender Composite Stratocaster owned by Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1965 prized for $ 623.500.

8. Gold Leaf Stratocaster Eric Clapton Property price $ 455.550

9. Gibson SG that had been used by John Lennon and George Harrison, prize for $ 570,000.

10. Fender Broadcaster prototype in 1949, this guitar was the forerunner of the brand's most famous guitar "Fender" and the guitar is worth $ 375,000.

The Basic of Guitar Chord Charts

If you are a beginner in playing guitar you need to know the basics in playing the guitar. It is very fundamental in playing the guitar is learning the basic chord guitar; if you have not mastered basic chord then you certainly can not continue to learn some guitar techniques well.

Therefore guitar techniques tips will discuss the basic chord glittering playing guitar before explain some of the tips and techniques of playing the guitar.

Here are some visual basic guitar chord tones:

Basic Major Open Chords 

 Basic Minor Open Chords
 
Minor Guitar Barre Chords

 

 Major Guitar Barre Chords