Nate Savage
Guitar Expert
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Co-authored Articles (9)
How to
Learn All the Notes on the Guitar
Unlike piano keys, there is no obvious repeating pattern to the notes on a guitar. In order to learn chords, riffs, and songs, you will have to first know the names of the notes of the fretboard. With a little patience a...
How to
Read Guitar Music
This article will cover the basics of how to read guitar sheet music. This is not about how to read tabs––rather, it's about music written in standard notation. Guitar music is written on the treble clef, the upper h...
How to
Tune a Guitar
If you want to be a guitar god, you need to have a properly tuned guitar. Whether you want to tune digitally, by ear, or with harmonics, you can learn to tune a guitar easily!
How to
Play Basic Songs on the Guitar
Learning guitar can be a long, arduous process. However, this doesn't mean that you can't wow friends by playing simple songs as soon as you know some basic chords. In fact, this is a great idea for fostering your develo...
How to
Play the C Major Chord on Guitar
The C Major chord is one of the most common chords in Western music. Comprised of only 3 notes — C, E, and G — it is one of the first chords most guitarists learn. Once you master the basics of this chord, you can st...
How to
Play the F Chord on Guitar
The F is one of the trickiest guitar chords to learn, but it is an important one that opens up all sorts of new chord shapes once mastered. There are many different ways to play an F-major chord, as it is often abridged ...
How to
Hammer on a Guitar Note
A hammer-on is a technique almost every guitarist uses to greatly boost their playing speed, no matter what style of music you play. Hammer-ons are simply when you hit the string with your fretting hand, pressing down qu...
How to
Read Chord Diagrams
If you've just picked up the guitar, chord diagrams are a useful shortcut that tell you where to place the fingers of your fretting hand to play different chords. You only need to learn 3 or 4 chords to play thousands of...
How to
Bend a Note on Guitar
Being able to bend notes on guitar is a great way to add some flair to any guitar solo. Bends allow you to seamlessly "jump" from one note to the other with a tasty, bluesy maneuver. You can easily adjust your bends to a...
