Learn How To Play A Guitar For FreeLearn How To Play A Guitar For FreeA blog featuring free lessons, articles and video clips for people who want to learn guitar but may not want a lesson package. I hope to give people info and insights on music they did not know about. 
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Learning Guitar Chords
2008-04-23 12:12:00 Most new guitar players are anxious to learn how to play chords. But which chords to learn first? Naturally you need to know the chords that will enable you to start playing songs as soon as possible. Learn guitar chords that you will play in hundreds of songs! You might think, ‘Which chords should I ... More About: Guitar , Chords , Learning
Guitar chords and how to make them like you
2008-04-21 14:47:00 Today I present a valuable essay on learning guitar chords. If you are a guitar player maybe you can remember a time when you watched in awe as a guitarist’s hand moved up and down the guitar neck, making chord shapes with incredible speed. Now you can do it. There was no magic ... More About: Guitar , Chords , Make
Freedom?s just another word for video guitar lessons
2008-04-20 13:26:00 There’s a new generation of guitar fans coming up from the realms of air guitar and Guitar Hero. These people want to learn to play the guitar like the guitar players of decades gone by. At Vanderbilly they can get their opportunity. It’s a guitar lesson site where the memberships are free and ... More About: Video , Freedom , Word , Lessons
Teach yourself to play acoustic guitar
2008-04-18 14:08:00 wikiHow is a great place to learn very specialized skills. I thought I would present a couple of these mini tutorials for guitar players. How to Rapidly Learn to Play the Acoustic Guitar Yourself “Successfully learning how to play guitar is within the grasp of most people, yet many beginners give up too quickly. Frequently, quitting ...
Free guitar chord builder
2008-04-17 02:20:00 Here is a little tool for guitar players who enjoy building their own chords. I have been fooling around with a nifty gadget called Virtual Guitar . If you start at the desktop you can click on links where you can see the notes of scales on the guitar’s neck. You can play the scales ... More About: Free , Chords , Builder , Chord
Learn to play guitar as a hobby
2008-04-16 09:37:00 Discover A Hobby calls itself “the Internet’s ultimate directory for finding and starting a new hobby”. It really does have a wide range of interests, even though there are only one or two entries for each area of expertise. The one and only entry for learning to play guitar is written by some guy ... More About: Guitar , Play , Learn
Free guitar lessons at Guitar Heat
2008-04-15 10:35:00 Guitar Heat features free guitar lessons onguitar picking speed, lessons to help beginner guitar players understand chords and modes plus heaps of other interesting guitar blog posts including a detailed lesson on how to train your ear to identify chords and notes. If you want to learn string tapping and string skipping technique there’s ... More About: Guitar , Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Four free guitar lessons
2008-04-14 14:31:00 The Musician Shop has been online since 1997, and as well as offering guitars and gear for sale, has a small selection of free guitar lessons for beginners. Lesson 1 deals with holding the guitar and basic open chords, Lesson 2 shows us minor and seventh chords, Guitar Lesson 3 gives us a few ... More About: Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Learn classical guitar
2008-04-13 13:44:00 Trevor Maurice has been playing classical guitar since before he was born, and he is determined to share his love of classical guitar with the world. His website, learnclassicalguitar.com is home to all kinds of information and inspiration on the classical guitar. Trevor’s monthly e-zine contains: “Information-Packed Articles - Tips on good classical guitar technique ... More About: Guitar , Classical , Learn , Classical Guitar
There?s always room for incredible guitar playing
2008-04-11 04:15:00 Who can resist a web page called “10 Websites to Make You an Incredible Guitar ist”? All the sites listed have a lot to offer guitar players of all levels who are looking for something out of the box in free guitar lessons. “Admit it, you have always wanted to play along to your favorite song ... More About: Room
How to finger big chords with small hands
2008-04-10 12:42:00 Many novice guitar players have issues with just holding the guitar, let alone playing it. Consider this aching question: “Electric Guitar, Power Chords - is there a trick to playing them if you have small hands?” Answer “1) It’s more a question of finger and hand strength rather than span. Consider the jazz great Pat Metheny has ... More About: Small , Hands , Finger
Every little bit of practice counts
2008-04-09 14:21:00 I found this fantastic essay called “Improve Your Guitar Playing By Practicing Less”. Here’s a few tidbits: “Getting into a rhythm of regularly picking up your guitar for a quick practice session is a great habit to get into ? the more your guitar is in your hands, the more you?ll get used to playing ... More About: Practice
Learn how to play guitar fast
2008-04-08 08:13:00 If you want to play guitar fast Shredaholic is a site dedicated to the love of shred and virtuoso guitar playing. The site includes free guitar lessons to help shred / metal guitarists in training, but is also a useful resource for any guitar player wanting to improve or learn a style of a ... More About: Guitar , Play , Fast , Learn
Free guitar tabs
2008-04-07 00:42:00 guitaretab.com has a buttload of free guitar tabs and a guitar player-friendly interface. Here’s what is on their current front page: Knockin On Heavens Door ? Guns N Roses Nothing Else Matters ? Metallica Tears In Heaven ? Clapton Eric Stairway To Heaven ? Led Zeppelin Under The Bridge ? Red Hot Chili Peppers Hotel California ? Eagles Smoke On The ... More About: Guitar , Free , Tabs
Reading music and playing along to your singing
2008-04-06 01:18:00 Here are some tips on two major common causes for concern amongst beginner guitarists from Guitar Made Easy Why Most Guitar Players Don?t Need to Read Music , Ever! “Standard notation has a very complex and thorough structure for conveying the duration of notes. Unfortunately with guitar tablature it is typically harder to convey time. One common method ... More About: Reading , Singing
Nurture your inner metronome
2008-04-03 23:33:00 Here’s a wise guitar blog post from a lifelong guitar player on the need to learn to keep time internally. “. . . guitar players need a platform that is in a public place to express themselves while they are developing their craft. What you?ll notice if you look carefully at street musicians if they ...
Acoustic Guitar Lessons
2008-04-01 23:38:00 These short acoustic guitar lessons have been put together for the beginner acoustic guitar student who feels a need to play music but is a bit short on direction. Lesson One - What kind of guitar are you going to buy? If you have a rough idea of what kind of music you want to ... More About: Guitar , Acoustic , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Basic equipment for learning guitar players
2008-04-01 03:07:00 Do not put off learning the guitar because you can’t afford top of the range gear. First of all it is best to start to learn using a nylon string acoustic guitar. Steel strings are rough on the fingers when you are just learning how to play. So whether you get it from ebay ... More About: Players , Guitar , Equipment , Basic , Learning
“Ain’t No Sunshine” video guitar lesson
2008-03-31 14:57:00 “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers is a song that just won’t let go. It came out in the early seventies, it’s been covered by umpty-gazillion artists and is still a classic in most parts of the world. And a bonus is it’s easy to play. This YouTube guitar lesson video shows you in close-up the right hand strumming and the left hand fingering. Technorati Tags: YouTube guitar lesson video More About: Video , Guitar , Lesson
Learn To Play Guitar Using Free Software
2008-03-30 12:32:00 If you want to learn to play guitar for free there’s plenty of software available to help you. This article will enable you to define for yourself how to approach learning the guitar and guide you in setting up the time and space necessary to make solid musical progress. Imagine yourself sitting down to play ... More About: Software , Guitar , Play , Free , Free Software
How to change chords quickly
2008-03-28 05:14:00 “When you play a song, you won’t be strumming the same chord over and over. You’ll be changing chords while you play. Changing chords quickly is one of the first big steps in learning to play the guitar. Once you know a few chords, and are able to switch between them quickly, you are ... More About: Change , Chords
The pentatonic scale
2008-03-27 14:00:00 The pentatonic scale is thought by many electric guitar players to be their exclusive property but it’s really found in all sorts of music from around the world. According to wikipedia.org “Ethnomusicology commonly classifies pentatonic scales as either hemitonic or anhemitonic. Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones and anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones. ... More About: Scales , Scale
Find free guitar chords
2008-03-26 00:41:00 If you want to have every guitar chord in the universe at your fingertips, browse through these pages featuring collections of guitar chords, guitar chord charts and tools for generating chords. This chord finding tool at howtotuneaguitar.org will find over 1800 chords, simply select the note, then the chord type, and inversion then click the ... More About: Guitar , Free , Find , Chords
Twelve bar blues shuffle
2008-03-25 04:24:00 The blues has contributed a lot to guitar playing technique, and one of the most exciting elements of blues guitar is the shuffle. If you haven’t tried muting your strings when you play, here’s your chance. The 12 bar blues shuffle is easy to do and it sounds really cool. Doing the shuffle will really make ... More About: Blues , Shuffle , Twelve
A guide to guitar basics
2008-03-24 07:15:00 Here’s a quote from howtotuneaguitar.org which I think is relevant to people seeking to learn guitar for free “For one reason or another alot of guitar players don?t develop great technique.” That’s because we don’t apply ourselves consistently to the hard work of practicing guitar scales, arpeggios and chords while at the same time watching ... More About: Guitar , Guide , Basics
Teenage guitar fantasies too hard to resist
2008-03-22 22:52:00 What teenage boys do in their bedrooms has kept glossy magazine publishers and online archives of the human form in tasteless mansions for many years. Now two more companies devoted to inspiring teen dreams are engaging in a bit of a tiff. Gibson guitars are used by many guitar legends like B.B. King and Eric ... More About: Guitar , Hard , Teenage , Fantasies
Free Acoustic Guitar Lesson
2008-03-20 21:24:00 Check out this five minute acoustic guitar lesson video that shows you exactly how to play a “shuffle” blues rhythm (tab included). This video comes from Dan Denley’s Acoustic Guitar Secrets course: a killer, step-by-step, multi-DVD course designed specifically for acoustic guitarists. Dan re-released his now famous acoustic course last week after a complete sell out ... More About: Free , Lesson
Guitar exercises to improve your technique
2008-03-20 10:24:00 the guitar player.com is crawling with helpful info and stunning insights for guitar players at any stage. “This site belongs to Tony Hogan a guitar player who has been playing for 40 years, it is updated regularly with free guitar tab and music notation and links to resources and reputable sites that will help you ... More About: Guitar , Technique , Exercises , Improve
Another free acoustic guitar video
2008-03-19 12:54:00 Apparently Dan Denley has been getting a lot of emails about his Acoustic Guitar Secrets course. One of the biggest questions is about how his Acoustic Guitar Secrets course is different from Amazing Guitar Secrets, Blues Guitar Secrets and Lead Guitar Secrets courses. The following short video explains exactly what you’ll learn. He also discusses ... More About: Video , Free
Guitar players? dreams need nourishment
More articles from this author:2008-03-18 05:44:00 Ignacio is a guy with a guitar obsession and a day job. I imagine he sits in his office looking all dayjobby from the outside but inside he’s seething with frets and riffs. Anyway, his guitar blog is a place any enthusiast would be happy to waste hours of company time on. Here’s a ... More About: Dreams , Players , Guitar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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