by Paul Roth | Aug 11, 2017 | Capo, Musicianship
Divisive comment alert: I love capos. They’re awesome. Now there are many guitarists who believe that you shouldn’t use capos but should just learn how to play the chords properly. They have a point, you SHOULD be expanding your knowledge of chords so that...
by Paul Roth | Aug 3, 2017 | GUitar-vocalist, Musicianship
Hey hey, it’s been a while so thanks for your patience and for tuning in after I gave myself a small hiatus, I can only imagine your frustration. Firstly, this is NOT a post about becoming a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Rather, I’m wanting to draw...
by Paul Roth | Apr 14, 2017 | Chords
Last week we talked about one of my favourite things… triad inversions!! Yay. Here are the PDFs again for the shapes: Major Minor Diminished We focused last week mainly on how these are useful and how to apply them. This week I...
by Paul Roth | Mar 31, 2017 | GUitar-vocalist, Musicianship
I’ve been lucky enough to do a lot of work as a guitar-vocalist. And one thing I often hear or have people ask me about is how to play and sing, as this blows some people’s minds. Firstly, many people play and sing, that’s nothing new or a...
by Paul Roth | Mar 23, 2017 | Chords
Bar chords are one thing that many people get quite stuck on when progressing with the guitar. For most people it presents a bit of a wall to get over, for some, unfortunately, they just think they can’t do it, bar chords aren’t for them and they...