by Chris Medici
Once I decided I wanted to learn to play the guitar, I was faced with a major decision: what guitar should I buy? It was such an important decision – the consequences of which I would have to live with for years. With so many options, I was frozen – not even knowing where to start the process of buying a guitar.
[..]by Jason Steele
Now let’s go back to the open strings on the guitar so you can learn how to fill the gaps between each string. This is the very first step in learning your neck. Take a look at the notes E through A in the piano diagram below:
by Jason Steele
Before you begin learning all of the notes on your guitar you need to know how the guitar is set up. The notes on the guitar get higher/lower by moving a couple of different ways, so let’s first take a look at the open strings of a guitar.
[..]by Aubrey Aikens
The Rise of “Rockerella”-Cinderella’s Release and Female Self Image
In 1950, Walt Disney Studios released one of its most iconic princess movies, Cinderella. With its whimsical nature and lilting lady lead, the movie was a hit and has remained a classic ever since, serving as a standard for many women to compare themselves to. The character herself has a high, sweet, and innocently feminine voice that floats gracefully over the polished orchestra, reminiscent (almost symbolic) of the stereotypical 50’s housewife of the time. Dressing to the nines for the sake of a man, embracing the supposed weakness of womanhood, serving others obediently, all while retaining that distinct sense of femininity defined what many average women experienced on a daily basis. Although there are many connections to the precursor to the young male rocker through building anger and frustration, I believe that women in fact swung the opposite way. Many ladies to this day still look down upon female rockers, and one way to do that was by commenting on their lack of feminine qualities (as if it were insulting to try and move outside the norm). Rock music in the women’s circles aren’t necessarily limited to the “angry, active” person like in Reynolds’ and Press’ piece The Sex Revolts, but perhaps more to the silently suffering princess. In being forced to fit such a constraining mold, women chose to reject the image of the perfect women within characters like Cinderella and slowly move from that pious state, to one that is more vocal and free.
[..]by Jason Steele
The Octave
The last spacial element we will take a look at is called an octave. The distance of an octave is going to the next note of the same name. For example C to C is the distance of an octave.
And just to perfectly clear you can move an octave from any note. Some examples of other octaves would be G to G, Ab to Ab, F to F, etc etc.