Author Archives: Bob Voges

The Ovation Guitar: The Origin of the Revolutionary Ovation Guitar

By Bob Voges | Published: April 7, 2010
I hope you enjoyed my previous post about online guitar stores. Today’s post provides a glimpse into the origins of one of the most original and revolutionary developments in acoustic guitar design and construction: the Ovation guitar, and it’s lower priced cousin the Applause guitar. The Ovation guitar was a revolution in the history of [...]
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Guitar Stores Online – What Are The Best Online Guitar Stores?

By Bob Voges | Published: April 3, 2010
Hope you enjoyed yesterday’s post about electric guitar lessons. Today I’ll be stepping away from learning guitar to take a look at some of the top online guitar stores. As more and more people become comfortable with making purchases online, it’s inevitable that guitar stores have gone online as well. If you’re looking for great [...]
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Learn to Play Guitar Fast

By Bob Voges | Published: April 2, 2010
Here’s a great article I found that covers a lot of essential music theory information at a beginner level, and applies it to the guitar. There’s a lot of information here,  so don’t worry if it doesn’t all sink in the first time you read it. Bookmark this page in your browser, or print it [...]
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Should You Take Electric Guitar Lessons?

By Bob Voges | Published: April 2, 2010
Are Electric Guitar Lessons Right For You? If you’re just learning how to play a guitar, and you want to take lessons, you may be wondering if you should take electric guitar lessons or acoustic guitar lessons? Which is best? Well, a lot of it depends on personal preference, but there are some pros and [...]
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Musical Keys on the Guitar and the Pattern of One-Four-Five

By Bob Voges | Published: March 29, 2010
Do you get frustrated not understanding what chords you’re supposed to play in the key of C, or the Key of A? If you don’t have any musical theory understanding then this beginner lesson on keys and the one-four-five concept will help you out a lot. In this article and the following video I’m going [...]
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Guitar Chords for Beginners

By Bob Voges | Published: March 25, 2010
5 Tips To Get You Playing Now This post gives five beginner level tips that will help you succeed in learning how to play guitar chords. If you follow these tips, and practice every day, you’ll be playing chords and songs in no time. Before You Start To learn to play guitar chords, you’ll first [...]
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How To Read Guitar Chord Diagrams

By Bob Voges | Published: March 23, 2010
A Beginning Guitar Tutorial The Guitar articles on this site use standard graphical chord diagrams. You may already know how to read chord diagrams like this, but just in case you don’t, here’s a quick course in how to read them: How To Read The Chord Diagram Grid The grid in the diagram represents part [...]
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7 Tips For How To Play A Guitar

By Bob Voges | Published: March 21, 2010
In today’s post, I’ll give you seven tips for how to play a guitar. If you follow these tips, they will help you to learn how to play a guitar and meet your musical goals. 1. Choose a guitar that you like and can play comfortably. Spend some time to pick out the guitar you [...]
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Getting Started with Chords – E and G Major Beginner Chord Lesson

By Bob Voges | Published: March 20, 2010
As a beginner getting started with chords is an exciting time. It means you’re getting closer to learning some real songs to play, but before you can reach that goal of playing songs you must put in the practice to learn the correct techniques and hand positioning for the major and minor chords. Today I’m [...]
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Basics Of Blues Guitar Chords: Playing The Twelve Bar Blues

By Bob Voges | Published: March 20, 2010
In Five Essential Blues Keys In this article, you’ll learn how to play the twelve bar blues. The twelve-bar blues is the foundation for many blues songs. Blues Guitar Chords You’ll Need For This Lesson If you don’t know how to play the guitar chords listed above, see my article Basics of Blues Guitar Chords: [...]
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