In this free kids guitar lesson we will explore 6/8 timing. 6/8 time indicates that there are 6 beats per measure with eighth notes receiving the beat. Learn how to spot this timing by knowing what to look for in your music notation and how to precisely play in 6/8 time. We will give you several examples and use them in actual music notation.

What is a Position: Up to this point you have been playing almost all of your notes on the guitar in what is called the first position. This is also called the open first position or the “home” position. A position is just a fancy term for shifting your right hand to play up higher [...]

She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain – Beginner Version – Slow Speed If you follow the Guitar Pro or the PDF file of this song in the lesson plan, it should be played just like this. This video is very true to the notation or tablature that is in the lesson. I didn’t want to [...]

Alternate Endings: Alternate endings provides the author of the music with yet another short-hand method of reducing the amount of music that is required to be written within the score. If alternate endings did not exist, some scores could be as much as 10 or 12 pages rather than 2 or 3 pages. Alternate Endings [...]

Pick Up Notes Source: Kids Music Theory Pick Up Notes: Pick up notes are notes that are played prior to the start of the song. They are sometimes referred to as a kick-off of kicking off the song. In the case of a guitar lead, pick up notes are mostly played without any accompaniment. In [...]

Waltz Timing is also known as 3/4 timing. There are quite a few differences from that of the common time or 4/4 timing. We will teach you the differences and how to play rhythm chords or accompaniment chords in waltz timing too.

Music Symbols Quiz 1: The first quiz on using notes for addition and subtraction. Go ahead and take it. There are 18 problems with answers. Go ahead and take it. How well could you do? I guarantee you will scratch your head over some of these.

Music Symbols Quiz 1: The first quiz on how to recognize musical symbols. There are 15 multiple choice question with answers. Go ahead and take it. How well could you do?

Music Terms Quiz #1 Source: Kid Music Theory Music Terms Quiz #1: And you thought you wouldn’t get any quizzes here didn’t you? Sorry, you do have to know this stuff. Maybe not everything right away, but I want to make sure you aren’t blown away by Music Terms in the near future. To study [...]

The G Scale Notes. In this article we will learn the notes in the G scale, which has one sharp, that being F#. We will also learn the notes for both octaves in the first position of the fretboard. Lesson is accompanied by a note diagram and the 2 octaves in notation and TAB format.