Gary Moore Dead Former Thin Lizzy Guitarist

Gary Moore aged 58 years has died today.  He was found in his hotel room in Costa Del Sol, Spain while on holiday.

Gary Moore Guitarist (Source Exxolon)

Gary Moore was a well reknowed blues and rock lead guitar player from Belfast, Ireland. 

Gary had played guitar with Thin Lizzy live and recorded (Black Rose album) and with Phil Lynott (Out in the Fields).  He was also well known for his solo work with the The Gary Moore Band where he played both rock and blues.  He also had played Parisienne Walkways

Gary Moore's cause of death will be unknown until a Post Mortem is carried out later today.

I seen him play a tribute for Phil Lynnot at The Point Depot in Dublin, Ireland when they unveiled the statute for the Thin Lizzy singer on Harry's Street, Dublin. 

Gary was an incredible guitar player to listen to and watch.  A sad loss for rock fans and rock music.

Vivian Campbell on Row with DIO, Joining Thin Lizzy and Leaving Def Leppard?

Vivian Campbell was recently interviewed by Classic Rock where he spoke about a few of his bands. Vivian Campbell was well known for playing with Ronnie James Dio on the Holy Diver and Sacred Heart albums. He said he had not spoken to Ronnie in 25 years. A few years RJD blasted him and was caught on video. He did later apologize apparently.

Vivian spoke about Dio's death for the first time publicly.  Vivian's mother had died ten previously and his father that year so he was numbed.
“The news about Ronnie James Dio just bounced off me. It was a difficult relationship on a personal level anyway. I was really proud of the music we made together but it was tough being in a band together. But he died way too young.”

Vivian Campbell with Def Leppard (Source: Weatherman90)

He also said that being in Thin Lizzy was more interesting than playing in Def Leppard. 

He is touring with Thin Lizzy at the moment with Scott Gorham and Ricky Warwick (The Almighty). He said in other words he found Def Leppard a bit boring.

“It’s very exciting – it’s reconnected me to the electric guitar. I’ve been in Def Leppard for 20 years and if I’m honest it’s not a terribly challenging job for me as a guitar player. Phil Collen plays most of the widdly parts and I do what I do. But this job has reignited my love for guitar playing.”

It had looked like he had settled in Def Leppard but could this be the sound of him leaving. He had done a solo blues album in recent years, The Two Side of If in 2005.  So he mustn't have really enjoyed that as much as Lizzy.

For Guitars For Beginners I recommend Holy Diver and Rainbow In The Dark as easy guitar songers for beginners to play.  Well the rhythm not the lead solo.

Sources Rush on Rock.

Golden Guitar Awards 2011

There was a gaffe at the Australian Golden Guitar Awards 2011.  The award was given out the the wrong person in the Country Music Awards, CMA.  Not that guitars for beginners will be winning it.



Golden Guitar at Tamworth Source: Lyndi and Jason


There is now an investigation going into the Golden Guitar Bungle.

"At the Tamworth music event last month, a Golden Guitar award was handed out to Lee Kernaghan instead of Graeme Connors, causing the CMAA to be "embarrassed" and "incredibly sorry"."

This is not the first time that a winner has been announce wrongly in Australia.  Last year the wrong winner was announced at Australia's Next Top Model.

So if you want to start your career in anything, start playing guitar in Australis, you could be an award winner with a few easy guitar songs for beginners in Golden Guitar Awards 2012.

Guitar Notes For Beginners Online

When playing guitars for beginners, the first thing you need to do before playing guitar chords is to play guitar notes for beginners.  The notes on the guitar neck are called A, B,C ,D, E, F, G.

We will start with the names of the strings.
The sixth string is the fattest wound string at the top.  The first string the smallest smooth string at the bottom.

The strings are called.
6th  E
5th  A
4th  D
3rd  G
2nd  B
1st  e     <- same note as the 6th string, different octave.

If you pluck the 6th and 1st string together you will hear they go together to make a lovely harmony.  Pluck two other strings together and it won't sound as nice.

There are also notes along each string on the frets.  We will look at the sixth string for the notes of frets.
Open 6th string is the note E, this is why the string is the E string.  1st fret is the next note on the scale called F, 3rd is G, 5th is A, 7th B, 8th C, 10th D, 12th is E an octave higher.  And it repeats with F at the 13th fret and so on.  See the picture below.



Guitar Notes on the guitar neck for the 6th E String.


You will notice there is a space between the guitar notes except for the E and F and also the B and C.  The other notes have a half note between them.  They are a called a sharp if after or a flat if before the note.
ie. A sharp is the same as B flat.

More guitar notes for beginners online, A string begins with A open string, B on the 2nd and so on.  Similar pattern to the E string except for moved to start with the A note.

Hope you found this introduction on guitars for beginners useful.  Please feel free to ask me anything on this.

Guitars for Beginners and beyond

Welcome to Guitars for beginners where you will get information and tips on playing guitars.  There will also be some guitar beginner tips on tuning guitars and stringing guitars.  This is perhaps one of the most difficult things for a beginner to do and does stop many people from playing.

Guitar playing can be difficult but there are two things that will help you.  Focus and practice.  Get focus on your playing, where you want to be.  Practice every day.  10 minutes a day of focused guitar practice is good enough at first.  Working on playing up to 30 minutes a day every day.  Then an hour or more once you get a bit better at playing the guitar with some easy guitar songs for beginners.

Well anyway I hope you find the blog and posts useful and find something to help you improve your guitar playing.  The next post will be on guitar notes for beginners.  We will discuss what the music notes on the neck of the guitar are called and where they are.

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