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. Articles
What is Next Level Guitar?
2007-10-07 13:51:00 Well Next Level Guitar is not free, but it is excellent. Their course consists of over 100 individual videos starting with guitar chords progressing to playing a full song. Their method is a step by step guide to get you playing the guitar today. They show you the simple thing you can do which ...
How to tune a 12 string guitar
2007-10-05 03:50:00 The modern twelve string guitar appeared in The United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Nobody knows who first got the idea of making a guitar with double courses of strings. Some guitar historians see the twelve string as an extension of the long tradition of coursed instruments in Italian musical history. ... More About: Guitar , Tuning , Tune , String , Tring
Tips for electric guitarists
2007-10-04 04:44:00 Here’s an extract from a new hub by the delightful Lana Garcia on starting out with an electric guitar: “An important aspect of learning to play electric guitar is how you are going to be holding the guitar during your long hours of practice. If you do not pay attention to this stuff now, you ... More About: Tips , Electric , Electric Guitars
Electric Guitar Tabs Explained
2007-10-03 03:57:00 Guitar tablature is not a dumbed down version of “real” musical notation. It has been a real help to the many people who have taken up the electric guitar and who wanted to get down to the business of playing as quickly as possible. Tablature as a means of writing music down has been with ... More About: Guitar , Tabs , Electric , Electric Guitar , Laine
Tips on learning how to play guitar
2007-10-02 00:31:00 Don’t Get Stale. Even at an early stage in your guitar playing progress you can be guilty of coasting on the progress you have made already. Shake things up a little. For instance you could play by the clock for a week; no matter how you feel, put the guitar down when your allotted practice ... More About: Guitar , Tips , Play , Learning , Earning
Peter Frampton - forgotten guitar hero
2007-10-01 13:28:00 Peter Frampton devoured music when he was a child, and achieved superstardom by the time he’d reached his early twenties. Here’s a Youtube video of Peter in his “pretty boy” days . . . . . . and here’s Peter Frampton helping out Jack Bruce with “Sunshine Of Your Love”: Technorati Tags: Peter Frampton, Youtube video, Jack ... More About: Guitar , Hero , Peter Frampton , Guitar Hero , Peter
Free lesson in ear training
2007-09-30 02:44:00 You might think you’re hopeless at playing by ear, but this lesson is well worth persevering with: Ear Training - From the mind to the fretboard… “The key to developing a good ear is to come up with your own meaningful associations. You need to make it real. One of the best approaches is to associate ... More About: Free , Lesson , TRAI , Raining
Cool guitar chord finder
2007-09-27 23:02:00 Find the guitar chord that suits your purposes with this great free tool. The Chord Generator by Jim Cranwell has over 3 million chords in 14 different tunings. Here’s the description: “There aren’t any actual complete chord diagrams stored anywhere in this program (except on this help page). Every chord and variation is generated via an algorithm. ... More About: Guitar , Free Stuff , Cool , Finder
Broadening your guitar knowledge base
2007-09-26 22:44:00 I’ve found a great article on using guitar music scales you already know to write totally new scales. Anybody who is interested in widening their knowledge of the guitar by experimenting should take in this article by Brian Huether. “Most of us are content learning the Pentatonic and Major Scales and we use them as ... More About: Guitar , Knowledge , Base , Broad
Applying yourself to practical challenges
2007-09-25 23:10:00 We all have our ways of approaching things we don’t understand, but here’s a little problem that everybody has to some degree: “I have a student, who shall remain nameless but not blameless, who has often illustrated very nicely how NOT to go about learning the guitar. She will come in for her lesson, and ... More About: Halle
New practice amp
2007-09-24 22:59:00 Do you want a practice amp with amazing DSP effects like tremolo, chorus, flanger, phaser and separate delay/reverb with no bulky pedal decks? The Roland Micro Cube’s COSM settings allow you to replicate the tone of several amps, including Brit Combo, Classic Stack and the legendary JC-120. This means you can make a complete Duane ... More About: Practice , Electric Guitars
Scale and Chord Tone Fretboard Printer
2007-09-23 11:39:00 The Scale and Chord Tone Fretboard Printer is a free fretboard generator for any stringed instrument. This free scale and chord generator allows you to view and print out the fretboard notes or fingerboard charts to most any scale, chord, or arpeggio on any stringed instrument in any tuning. The default tuning displays a bass ... More About: Free Stuff
Name that guitar chord
2007-09-21 12:39:00 This is the kind of place you can waste all day on! Make up your own chords, and see if they have names. If this tool doesn’t get you over those funny chord names, nothing will! “Superstrings” Chord Name Finder Find the name of any chord! Just move your mouse over a fret position on the ... More About: Guitar , Free Stuff
More guitar resources for beginners
2007-09-20 14:19:00 Here is a web page choc full of guitar goodness. A whole lot of tabs for folk songs and other beginners’ treats plus chords, an online guitar tuner, blank tab and music sheets to download, topped off with a flapping dove. St Albans Guitar Tutor Van Halen Guitar Tapping Technique In support of his large variety of ... More About: Resources , Free Stuff
More guitar info for free
2007-09-19 14:23:00 My Guitar Solo A great site with alot of info to read and things to practice and experiment with. “This site is dedicated to guitar players who want to improve their guitar technique, to add some new chops to their repertoire, to learn guitar scales or improvisation. The exercises inside include the basic craft, skills and ... More About: Free Stuff , Free , Info
Playing guitar chord progressions
2007-09-18 15:29:00 When you play chords in a particular order for a predetermined effect, it’s called a chord progression. Look at the C major scale: C D E F G A B C First we apply a Roman numeral to each note: C D E ... More About: Guitar , Chord
Play guitar without learning how
2007-09-17 13:27:00 Could Guitar Hero Put Music Teachers Out of Biz? Who needs music lessons when there’s Guitar Hero? The game’s guitar-shaped controller puts you on the stairway to heaven (or the highway to hell), even if you can’t play a lick. Its publisher, Harmonix, has honed the song list into a hard-rock syllabus and turned the ... More About: Play , Learning , Earning
Electric guitar that teaches you how to play!
2007-09-16 12:19:00 Hasbro and Tiger Electronics have come out with the Power Tour Electric Guitar , based on a Gibson design. With touch sensitive pads instead of guitar strings, shredders can easily learn chords by simply following the light patterns in the frets. This means that kids won?t be turned off right away by the need to ... More About: Play , Electric Guitar , Electric Guitars
Seven tips on how to play barre chords
2007-09-14 14:40:00 1. The first tip for learning barre chords is persevere. You are at a big jump in your guitar playing life, and if you try to avoid it your guitar playing will be forever half-assed. 2. Make sure your guitar neck is not warped. A visual check is okay. Go into more detail later if ... More About: Tips , Play , Chords , Chord
Universal guitar plus a whole lot more
2007-09-13 12:19:00 Today’s link goes to a site jam packed with info on how to play a guitar. UniGTR+ is a comprehensive mix of simply tons of six-string player + musician’s Info. UniGTR+ covers many aspects of crucial importance to players of many different styles of music. From Metal to Jazz and many areas in between - beginner ... More About: Guitar , Universal , Univers
Free guitar lessons and directory
2007-09-12 00:53:00 Today’s video gives us the lowdown on the various adjustments possible on an electric guitar. If you have an electric instrument, you really should give this a look. Today’s free lesson source is The Guitar Club which started out with good intentions but hasn’t been updated in a while. “Our main goal and purpose of Guitar ... More About: Free , Directory , Lessons , Tory
Instant guitar effects software
2007-09-10 14:04:00 GuitarFX is a free program that puts electronic guitar effects onto your computer. Bear in mind that some of the effects might be a drain on your computer’s life force, but the program has a visual indicator of how much CPU it’s using. I’m not sure how much support you get from the inventor, ... More About: Software , Guitar , Effects
Guitar tab software
2007-09-09 16:06:00 Easy Tab Maker Pro allows you to plug your guitar into your computer. While you play Easy Tab Maker Pro analyzes the pitch and tone of the signal transmitted from your guitar. It monitors the change and combination of the chords played. Then it analyzes the pitch and tone to determine which strings were ... More About: Software , Guitar
Release your inner musician
2007-09-07 14:47:00 In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong ... More About: Musician , Release
Free guitar learning software
2007-09-06 13:34:00 Guitar Guru gives you interactive song sessions designed to help you learn guitar and teach you how to play hundreds of your favorite songs. This song-based learning software complements guitar tablature by providing additional, detailed instructions that guitar tab alone is unable to provide. Guitar Guru teaches guitarists of all skill levels how to ... More About: Software , Guitar , Free , Learning , Earning
Two Electric Guitar Owner?s Manuals
2007-09-04 10:40:00 You Can Teach Yourself Rock Guitar By William Bay. For Guitar (Electric ). Methods. You Can Teach Yourself. Rock. Book+DVD. 108 pages. DVD format: Region 1 for use in the USA and Canada. This method for self-teaching ranks as one of the very best introductory rock guitar methods available. The student will learn licks, phrases, solos, ... More About: Manuals , Owner , Electric Guitar
Free fingerstyle and acoustic guitar lessons
2007-09-02 13:16:00 Today we are going to check out another excellent resource for free guitar lessons. If you aren’t an acoustic or fingerstyle guitar player, don’t worry, you’ll probably come away with something uselful, anyway! It’s called The Guitar Suite. Free Guitar Lessons for the acoustic or fingerstyle guitarist. Whether you are beginning the acoustic and fingerstyle ... More About: Acoustic , Fingers
How far can books take me in learning to play guitar?
2007-08-31 14:31:00 Here is a short excerpt from an essay on learning guitar from books from Guitar Books “If you want to learn about the history of the guitar, a book will give it to you. Books can show you where to put your fingers in order to execute a clawhammer picking pattern or play a ... More About: Play , Learning , Earning
Free Guitar Music
2007-08-30 14:27:00 The lovely and talented Lana Garcia has a new Hub Page called Free Guitar Music . Here’s a choice selection: “Free Acoustic Guitar Lesson http://playaguitarforfree.com/jamplayfree .html Free Guitar Chords, Tabs, Sheet Music, and LyricsFree guitar music | Guitar chords, tabs (tablature), lyrics, sheet music, and lessons from Heartwood Guitar Instruction. http://heartwoodguitar.com/ Free Guitar Music: A substantial collection ... More About: Free Stuff
The Edge
More articles from this author:2007-08-29 14:24:00 As a guitar player, The Edge is recognised as having a trademark sound typified by understatement, a chiming, shimmering sound that’s achieved with extensive use of digital delay effects, reverb, and a focus on texture and melody. 1987’s The Joshua Tree is probably the best example of the ’U2 sound’, with songs like “With ... More About: Guitar Heroes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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