Composing

Digital Nations guitarist Jonas Tamas gives us insight on composing an instrumental guitar song complete with tablature, videos, and more. Check it out here.

If you haven’t thought about phrasing before now, it’s time to start creating memorable phrases that begin and end – and breathe.

Nicholas Tozier walks us through how to take a piece of music and turn it into our own original creations for the guitar in this study of composition.

The Smitchens applies geometrical shapes to the freboard of a guitar like it’s a piece of graph paper to write his melodies and riffs for him. Check it out.

When it comes to writing music for the guitar and handicaps I don’t know that there is any better way to handicap yourself than to write without the aid of an instrument.

Writing Chord Progressions If you know your basic “CAGED” major chords and minor chords, and can switch quickly and easily