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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A great free video guitar lesson
2008-03-17 04:49:00 Justin Guitar .com as I have mentioned before, features completely free guitar lessons. This particular video features quick and easy lessons on how to play “Wild Thing”, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and “Hey Joe”. More About: Video , Free , Great , Lesson
More guitar players? shortcuts
2008-03-16 13:22:00 After covering some ways we could achieve the status of “guitar player” without putting in too much effort, I thought we should get to know some chord fingerings we could repeat in a number of positions on the fret board. It’s called the CAGED chord system. Here’s a selection of approaches to this way ... More About: Players , Guitar , Shortcuts
Fourteen minute video lesson on guitar chords
2008-03-13 23:23:00 One of the most important skills that any guitarist can have is a SOLID understanding of chords. A guitar solo makes up only maybe 10% of a song, so what are you doing with the other 90%? Playing chords or at least some licks that usually come from chords. Anyway, most people don’t really ... More About: Video , Guitar , Chords , Lesson , Minute
Acoustic Guitar Tab
2008-03-13 04:39:00 If you enjoy the idea of learning the guitar and you visualize yourself sitting down and playing your favorite songs for your own enjoyment, acoustic guitar tabs give you the possibility of realizing your dream. You can pick up an acoustic guitar any time of the day or night and play without disturbing your ... More About: Guitar , Acoustic
Learning guitar from videos and MP3?s
2008-03-12 05:25:00 Good news for everybody who slaves over sound files trying to learn to play guitar music from the original artist’s records. Quicktime has a speed control which lets you slow down the music without altering the pitch. Once you have a file playing, click on Window>Show A/V Controls and you’ll find a slider for ... More About: Videos , Guitar , Free Stuff , Learning
The fastest way to sound like a real guitar player
2008-03-11 11:31:00 A simple 12 bar blues played with confidence will get your friends’ heads turning. “Hey! Where’d you learn to play like that?” they ask. “Oh, I just picked it up from a website called co-acoustic.com,” you casually reply. Playing the guitar’s my thing, you know. Just for my own amusement, I don’t talk about ... More About: Guitar , Player , Sound , Real
Bass Guitar Players Who Changed The World
2008-03-10 06:08:00 Some people think that if you want to change the world you don’t become a bass guitar player, but go into something more challenging and stimulating like the Post Office. But does this myth portray how bass players really are? Let’s step back from our habitual way of seeing bass guitar players. Sure, we ... More About: Players , World , Guitar , The World , Bass
The birth of the new guitar players
2008-03-09 11:31:00 According to a news report Guitar Hero is inspiring a new generation of guitar tragics. “Guitar Hero and similar games such as Rock Band have guitar-shaped controllers with five color-coded fret buttons. The player presses the corresponding buttons as colored “notes” stream across the TV screen with the music. The better players get bonus ... More About: Players , Birth
How To Find The Notes On The Guitar Neck
2008-03-07 12:19:00 justinguitar.com is another guitar lesson site offering high quality online guitar lessons to people who do not want to spend money on learning to play guitar. Justin’s philosophy is simple: “If you can afford to pay for the lessons then please donate for what you use - imagine it was a pay site. If ... More About: Guitar , Notes , Find , Neck
Acoustic guitar course available again
2008-03-06 08:40:00 A new video from Acoustic Guitar Secrets course has just been released. It’s up on the web and ready for you to watch, right now. When the course was released back in December it sold all original 1000 copies. They shut down the site and stopped accepting orders for nearly two months. The next 1000 copies ...
Make your online guitar lessons fun!
2008-03-05 10:21:00 You’ve heard about the advantages of making learning to play a guitar fun, well Wholenote online guitar community is the place for you to start living the cliche. This site gives a whole world of value to online guitar lessons. WholeNote is a place where all the some-time, full-time, part-time, and not-enough-time guitarists can go ... More About: Guitar , Online , Make , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Guitar tips for beginners
2008-03-04 12:49:00 How To Tune A guitar.org has pages and pages of info on how to learn to play guitar. Here’s a quick cut and paste from a truly golden resource called 101 Guitar Tips “Go Dancing. Seriously it will improve your rhythm. If you go to the gym and are doing cardio or even weight lifting, you ...
Free Guitar Chord Charts Online
2008-03-02 22:25:00 This article will show you how to make the best use of free guitar chord charts that you can find online. As the internet changes, sites go down and new ones come up, so I won’t risk this resource going out of date by discussing where to find your free guitar chord charts, just ... More About: Guitar , Free , Chords , Charts , Online
How to succeed at playing guitar
2008-03-02 10:34:00 Once again irony has proved to be a nifty learning tool! Here’s a few tidbits from an ehow article called “How to Fail at Learning the Guitar ”: “If you?re just starting out on the guitar, it?s important to find one that?s either really cheap or really flashy.” “Cultivate poor posture techniques early on, so that they ...
Beginning Acoustic Guitar
2008-02-29 11:19:00 So you have decided the acoustic guitar is the instrument for you. What are the first steps to take to get your guitar playing off to a flying start? How about we cover the really basic stuff here, like what kind of music will I be playing? Am I aiming to be a ... More About: Guitar , Acoustic
What is the best way to learn guitar?
2008-02-28 12:45:00 A simple question asked by a lot of learner guitarists. Here’s a response from Paul Hackett at Guitar Noise “A lot of music books start you off with some simple strumming patterns on some rather old songs. Well, Guitar Noise has a section entitled Easy Songs for Beginners that takes a few easy and well ... More About: Learn
More on muscle memory for guitar players
2008-02-27 11:56:00 Everything2 is a collection of user-submitted writings. Below is part of an essay on muscle memory which should be useful to any guitar student. “I was playing guitar, and just reached the end of a tune, when I was distracted. I noticed I’d played a couple of notes after the end of the tune. I ... More About: Players , Guitar , Memory , Muscle
More free guitar lessons
2008-02-26 12:17:00 Over 65 free finger-picking guitar lessons with movies, an online tuner, barre chords for beginners and beyond - just a small selection of the goodies available to beginner guitarists at Guitar For Beginners Forum. If you’re really serious about learning to play a guitar go over and register at this forum and browse the ... More About: Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Learn To Play With Team Method Guitar
2008-02-25 11:28:00 Looking for a better way to learn to play the guitar? Here’s a simple concept that it?s amazing that someone hasn?t done this until now. It’s not free but I feel everybody learning guitar should be aware of their options and opportunities. Team Method Guitar is a guitar course put together and taught by a ... More About: Play , Learn
Learn to play ?Iron Man? on guitar
2008-02-24 12:13:00 For fans of heavy metal guitar, Jamplay has the beginning portions of Iron Man by Black Sabbath for you to learn. According to Wikipedia, “In 2000, 30 years after the song was first released, it won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. “Iron Man” also won spot #310 in Rolling Stone’s list of ... More About: Guitar , Play , Learn
How muscle memory helps you to learn guitar
2008-02-22 11:13:00 The term “muscle memory” is mostly a way of explaining the fact that if we repeat movements over and over with the intention of increasing skill and acuracy, our body achieves this goal for us without participation of the brain we have in our head. Learn ing touch typing is a good illustration. Anybody can learn ... More About: Guitar , Memory , Muscle
Can anybody learn to play the guitar?
2008-02-21 11:56:00 FunAdvice is a social question and answer site where you can find discussions on all kinds of topics. Here’s a few responses to the question, “How hard is it to learn to play the guitar?” “Learn ing anything depends on the person. Each person has a different level of difficulty for learning different things. Some people ... More About: Guitar , Play
Do all guitars have 6 strings?
2008-02-20 13:04:00 A little bit of guitar history today. This post is made up of a bunch of paragraphs from Wikipedia. “The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that’s used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist. The tenor guitar ... More About: Electric , Strings , Electric Guitars , Guitars
Playing guitar fast
2008-02-19 12:46:00 I found a great essay on learning to play guitar fast. Of course everybody says speed is not the point to guitar playing but we all like to show off! “Before we dive into the realm of developing speed, let’s dispel a few misconceptions about it. Firstly, speed in and of itself is irrelevant. However, ... More About: Guitar , Fast
Struggling with guitar fingerpicking
2008-02-18 09:16:00 Sometimes fingerpicking guitar is not as easy as it looks. Some people struggle with getting their right hand fingers to work independently while other people start playing fingerstyle guitar like they were born to it. Here’s a Q & A page that might help if you are having problems with your picking: “No matter what ... More About: Guitar
A guitar teacher analyses barre chords
2008-02-17 09:37:00 If you’re stumbling on blindly with barre chords because you don’t know where to begin to practice them more intelligently, you need to read this essay by Dave Casper: “Is there an easy way to learn barre chords? Whenever I teach barre chords to a student, I tell them before hand that they are going ... More About: Guitar , Chords , Analyses , Teacher
Guitar scales explained
2008-02-15 23:38:00 This site has maybe a little too much info on guitar scales but maybe you have the urge to read up on some background stuff, so . . . “What is the definition of a scale? A musical scale is a discrete set of pitches used in making or describing music. Typically a scale has an ... More About: Guitar , Scales
A time to play the guitar
2008-02-14 22:23:00 Everybody feels that they never have enough time. Here’s an interesting article on this question of fitting in your guitar playing with your life. “Time is one of those things that we approach differently depending what we want to do with it. We find that we make time for things when we need to or ... More About: Guitar , Play
Easy Song Tabs
2008-01-26 21:57:00 Here’s a link to some easy guitar songs for you to practice on: “The 2000s have thus far been somewhat of a desolate decade for guitar music, at least within the “mainstream”. Pop bands like Britney Spears, and ‘N Sync, whose music is generally devoid of particularly interesting guitar parts, continue to dominate radio and ... More About: Free Stuff , Song , Tabs , Easy
Questions and answers from guitar students
More articles from this author:2008-01-24 21:25:00 One way of learning to play a guitar is to read the questions other novice guitarists put to their guitar teachers. Here’s a couple of questions from Cyberfret’s Q and A section. I am in major pain after about 20 minutes of practice. Someone suggested switching to flat wound strings? Answer Are you talking about pain in ... More About: Questions , Guitar , Students , Answers , Questions and Answers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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