If you've always played guitar in an E standard tuning then you know that the lowest note you can possibly play in that tuning is the low E on your 6th string.
As a result, the lowest sounding chord on guitar in standard tuning is the open E chord.
Read more: Drop "D" Tuning on the Guitar
Start Writing Songs on Guitar by Doing "Nothing"
Previously we've discussed some very concrete steps you can take to start writing songs on the guitar.
This topic involves something very un-concrete and un-structured. In fact it's fairly abstract, but it also may be the most important. It has to do with doing nothing! That's right, allowing yourself time to sit with your guitar and do nothing but whatever comes out. Right or wrong, good or bad, pure gold or pure crap!
Songwriting Tips For the Guitarist - Song Structure
Almost any song you hear has a structure at its foundation. Even improvisational, loose format, jazz songs are tied to some sort of song structure.
Learning how songs are "put together" and some common methods for "arranging the pieces" will take you a long way in your songwriting.
Read more: Songwriting Tips For the Guitarist - Song Structure
Songwriting Tips For the Guitar Player
Whether you have been playing guitar for 30 days or 30 years you will, at some point, more than likely be struck by the urge to write your own songs.
I have often said in my guitar lessons courses that the real goal of any musician is to transcend from "thinking" about playing to "not thinking" about playing. To move from re-creating to creating.
