Sunday, September 22, 2013
Brian Mays Red Special Wiring Diagram
Brian May's Red Special has got some great futures as a 3-pickup guitar. All p-up configurations are possible, you can reverse the phase of every coil, and there is also a classic volume+tone control. It means a lot of cool tones to reach. All of them can be useful, there's no mambo-jumbo waste of space.
The original May's RS guitar wiring was made from quite „vintage” parts. Fortunately, today you can also build something similar, with modern electronics.
This is my Red Special wiring diagram:
Saturday, September 21, 2013
The Fire Starter
Hi, all, thanks for visiting.
I creat this blog as suggested from my closed frend @ band vocalist. He said to me that I should share my knowledge and experience in playing music especially electric guitar for years since the age of 13; now I am 33.
So, first of all i would like to say that there are a lot of things that I need to learn about blogging but thats a minor issue.
As I started to play guitar during my teenage time with my friend while sitting on a bench every body were taking turn to play the accoustic guitar. Thats a boring process of waiting coz imagine I had to wait my turn to play, furthuremore I was in 5th que. Each person plays about 20 minutes. AArgghh!! Thats so .... F**king boring Man.....
Since that incident I decided to have my own guitar. Just any guitar that i can afford, and I did got it some time later. I solved my taking turn problem, i had my own. not a good one, coz it was belonged to my elder brother not being taken care. even left in the rain once. its ugly. but i was proud to had it, though.
So u guys, u should begin to be a guitarist by having ur own guitar.
Have fun
I creat this blog as suggested from my closed frend @ band vocalist. He said to me that I should share my knowledge and experience in playing music especially electric guitar for years since the age of 13; now I am 33.
So, first of all i would like to say that there are a lot of things that I need to learn about blogging but thats a minor issue.
As I started to play guitar during my teenage time with my friend while sitting on a bench every body were taking turn to play the accoustic guitar. Thats a boring process of waiting coz imagine I had to wait my turn to play, furthuremore I was in 5th que. Each person plays about 20 minutes. AArgghh!! Thats so .... F**king boring Man.....
Since that incident I decided to have my own guitar. Just any guitar that i can afford, and I did got it some time later. I solved my taking turn problem, i had my own. not a good one, coz it was belonged to my elder brother not being taken care. even left in the rain once. its ugly. but i was proud to had it, though.
So u guys, u should begin to be a guitarist by having ur own guitar.
Have fun
Friday, September 20, 2013
12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords Number 2
Yesterdays guitar chord of the day post started a new mini-series of guitar chords. Today well continue our mini-series of 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords you should know, with our second dominant 7th guitar inversion.
This chord and the next two chords are all played on the top four strings of the guitar.
This inversion is in root position. Thats to say, it has the root note of the chord as the lowest note. This is a G7 chord but try moving this around to other positions too.
Check back in tomorrow when well be continuing our series of 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.
This chord and the next two chords are all played on the top four strings of the guitar.
Heres the fingering for this guitar chord:
This inversion is in root position. Thats to say, it has the root note of the chord as the lowest note. This is a G7 chord but try moving this around to other positions too.
Check back in tomorrow when well be continuing our series of 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
D69
Todays guitar chord of the day can be substituted for almost any major chord. As the name suggests, its an ordinary major chord with an added 6th and 9th.
This chord is moveable and has its root note on the A string (indicated by the black box in the chord diagram). This chord is fingered by playing the A string with your middle finger and barring across the D and G strings with your first finger.
69 chords can be played in place of major chords. It can replace chords I, IV and V in major keys.
69 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9
D69 uses the notes: D, F#, A, B, E
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F#, B, E, A
Tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord Of The Day.
This chord is moveable and has its root note on the A string (indicated by the black box in the chord diagram). This chord is fingered by playing the A string with your middle finger and barring across the D and G strings with your first finger.
69 chords can be played in place of major chords. It can replace chords I, IV and V in major keys.
69 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9
D69 uses the notes: D, F#, A, B, E
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F#, B, E, A
Tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord Of The Day.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Wiring for P90 Pickups Soapbars Dog Ears
This guitar wiring is designed for use with P90 and similar, hot output single coil pickups. To my taste, it's especially good for crunch and hi-gain drive tones.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Em7 G6
Two guitar chords for the price of one! Todays guitar chord is Em7, this has exactly the same notes in as G6. The Em7 chord has its root note on the B string of the guitar:
This guitar chord can be created by modifying some of the 4 string Dominant 7th Guitar Chords we looked at in previous posts.
To create a minor7 chord from a Dominant 7th chord, lower the 3rd of the chord one fret. Comparing the minor 7 chord above with this Dominant 7th inversion you can see weve changed only one note.
As this guitar chord can also be thought of as a Major 6th chord, we can also easily change 7th chords into a 6th chord by lowering the 7th one fret. Compare the above inversion with this G7 guitar chord and you can see that again only note has changed.
Minor 7 chords use these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5, b7
E minor 7 uses the notes: E, G, B D
Minor7 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and as chords ii, ii and vi in major keys
Major 6 chords use the scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, 6
G6 uses the notes: G, B, D, E
Major 6 chords can be played in place of almost all major chords and as chords I, IV and V in major keys.
As you can see the notes of G6 and Em7 are the same, this means were learning two guitar chords for the price of one. There are lots of guitar chords like this that can be used in multiple situations. In future posts well look at these chord synonyms in much more detail.
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To create a minor7 chord from a Dominant 7th chord, lower the 3rd of the chord one fret. Comparing the minor 7 chord above with this Dominant 7th inversion you can see weve changed only one note.
As this guitar chord can also be thought of as a Major 6th chord, we can also easily change 7th chords into a 6th chord by lowering the 7th one fret. Compare the above inversion with this G7 guitar chord and you can see that again only note has changed.
Minor 7 chords use these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5, b7
E minor 7 uses the notes: E, G, B D
Minor7 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and as chords ii, ii and vi in major keys
Major 6 chords use the scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, 6
G6 uses the notes: G, B, D, E
Major 6 chords can be played in place of almost all major chords and as chords I, IV and V in major keys.
As you can see the notes of G6 and Em7 are the same, this means were learning two guitar chords for the price of one. There are lots of guitar chords like this that can be used in multiple situations. In future posts well look at these chord synonyms in much more detail.
Subscribe to the RSS feed and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord Of The Day
Monday, September 16, 2013
Are You a Settler
Do you practice the same songs over and over?
Have you settled into a practice routine thats in your comfort zone? Is playing the same old songs keeping you from learning new material? While its a good idea to review and not lose the skills you have, you also can improve your guitar playing by working on newer, more challenging songs. I see students who pretty much refuse to move forward once theyre comfortable with their repertoire. Or, sometimes they get so hung up on a song they end up in a rut.
Become a pioneer instead of a settler.
While its not easy to pioneer new sounds, stretching out and playing other kinds of music, listening to different genres, and exploring the fingerboard are all ways to improve your guitar playing. Not sure what kinds of music youd like to play? Have your guitar teacher play some different styles for you, listen to some of the best guitar players and keep an open mind. There are fantastic guitar players regardless of the type of music they play.
How many of these names do you recognize?
Heres a list of guitar players you may or may not have heard of. Spend a little time listening and learning about them and you just might be surprised as well as inspired. In no particular order and in no particular style:
Have you settled into a practice routine thats in your comfort zone? Is playing the same old songs keeping you from learning new material? While its a good idea to review and not lose the skills you have, you also can improve your guitar playing by working on newer, more challenging songs. I see students who pretty much refuse to move forward once theyre comfortable with their repertoire. Or, sometimes they get so hung up on a song they end up in a rut.
Become a pioneer instead of a settler.
While its not easy to pioneer new sounds, stretching out and playing other kinds of music, listening to different genres, and exploring the fingerboard are all ways to improve your guitar playing. Not sure what kinds of music youd like to play? Have your guitar teacher play some different styles for you, listen to some of the best guitar players and keep an open mind. There are fantastic guitar players regardless of the type of music they play.
How many of these names do you recognize?
Heres a list of guitar players you may or may not have heard of. Spend a little time listening and learning about them and you just might be surprised as well as inspired. In no particular order and in no particular style:
- Chet Atkins
- Doc Watson
- Eric Clapton
- Jimmy Paige
- Tony Rice
- Joe Pass
- Django Reinhardt
- Carlos Santana
- Jerry Garcia
- Andres Segovia
- Julian Bream
- Les Paul
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