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
A free guitar lesson book
2008-06-09 12:46:00 Today’s free guitar lesson resource is “Playing Guitar : A Beginner’s Guide” which is an ebook that contains a bunch of stuff that will really help you in your guitar playing. “Playing Guitar gives you the musical building blocks you need to become a player, whether the style is rock, blues, jazz, fingerstyle or folk. You’ll ... More About: Free , Book , Lesson
Gibson Guitars
2008-06-08 14:10:00 Gibson guitars have ruled the rock and roll roost for many years. Ever since the nineteen thirties when pioneer electric guitar player, Charlie Christian took to them, Gibson guitars have always been very popular with guitar players. They have the magic combination of technical excellence and prestige and pizzazz. As pioneers in the electric guitar field, they have always made good use of every opportunity to get their guitars played by the leading guitarists. The company began in 1936 but Gibson guitars took hold of the 1960’s with both hands and gave the era a big tongue kiss. With the phenomenal growth of rock ‘n’ roll the solid body electric guitar which evolved in the fifties became the ultimate accessory for the young gentleman wishing to have loads of sex. The era produced many famous Gibson guitar models like the Double Cutaway SG, the Firebird and the Flying V. Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter Green, Chet Atkins all big names of the guitar, played Gibson gu... More About: Gibson , Guitars
Guitar Lessons - Which To Choose?
2008-06-06 14:20:00 With all the excitement generated by thinking about signing up for guitar lessons it is easy to become bedazzled with the array of guitar lessons advertised online and in the real world. You might feel that you just want to sign up for your guitar lessons, go to sleep and wake up being able ... More About: Guitar , Lessons , Choose , Guitar Lessons
Easy Songs For The Guitar
2008-06-05 14:11:00 If you want to learn to play the guitar you will need some easy songs to work on. The job of finding songs could be a bit tricky if you are not clear about what you want to play. Hopefully this article will be some help in choosing your songs. We need to look ... More About: Songs , Guitar , Easy
The Best Cheap Electric Guitars
2008-06-04 15:16:00 You want to play electric guitar but you have a limited budget. Your first electric guitar needs to be cheap so you need to get some idea which is the best brand to buy. If you do not buy a good quality electric guitar your guitar playing learning curve is going to be that ... More About: Cheap , Electric , Electric Guitars , Guitars
Learn How To Read Guitar Tabs
2008-06-03 14:27:00 If you are learning guitar you have probably heard about tablature, or tabs. As a new guitar player you are anxious to start playing songs, and you have been told that tabs are the easiest way to learn. That is good news. You do not need to spend weeks or months learning music theory. Guitar ... More About: Read , Tabs , Learn
Connecting Your Guitar To Your Computer
2008-06-02 14:51:00 When your dreaming of playing guitar through your computer, what do we need to consider when we put our dream into reality? Actually you can just plug it in your microphone jack or your line-in jack but it will not have the best sound you can get. Before we go further let us talk about ... More About: Guitar , Computer , Connecting
Basic Guitar Chords For Beginners
2008-05-30 00:45:00 Here is a YouTube video illustrating for beginner guitarists how to finger basic chords. This kind of lesson cannot be overemphasized. Take things easy, repeat the hand movements that make up a chord until you do not have to think about it any more. More About: Guitar , Chords , Basic
Classical Gas free guitar tab
2008-05-29 00:34:00 If you are into fingerstyle acoustic guitar you really should take a look at the free guitar tab for Classical Gas. Classical Gas is one of the most requested and most familiar instrumental pieces of all time. Classical Gas is always asked for whenever a bunch of people and a nylon string acoustic guitar are in the same room. It is not really a great technical showcase for finger style guitarists but it is a great vehicle to show off the sound of the classical guitar. The composer, Mason Williams, states on his website, “I didn’t really have any big plans for it, other than maybe to have a piece to play at parties when they passed the guitar around. I envisioned it as simply repertoire or “fuel” for the classical guitar, so I called it Classical Gasoline.” Mason Williams’ day job was as a comedy writer and stand-up comedian who had lots of other projects besides writing a classical guitar instrumental. It was Mason Williams’ work on the Smot... More About: Guitar , Free
Learn How To Play Guitar Fast
2008-05-27 12:32:00 When you watch somebody play fast on the guitar do you always wonder if you could learn to do that? Let us look at what resources we need to increase our own guitar playing speed on a regular basis. The very first thing you are going to need is a metronome. You can buy one ... More About: Guitar , Play , Fast , Learn
All about guitar practice
2008-05-26 09:08:00 When you decided to become a guitar player you thought it would be fun, right? But you have discovered that the process of learning to play guitar involves climbing a mountain or two. If you have persisted in your efforts to learn guitar you might have just decided to grit your teeth and knuckle down to solid hard work. Hours of it. Hours on end. The reward is in the future. Well, the work is necessary but if there is no fun then much of the work is wasted. If your aim is to do one hour of guitar practice per day it would be good to focus a little on getting value for money out of all that sweating. One hour’s guitar practice is not one hour’s continuous playing without a break. It is a process of rethinking your aims and constantly renewing your view of the guitar and of yourself. If you are the type of person who has trouble getting down to work, make a set time to practice and make yourself stick to it. It is true that constant playing makes you a guitarist, but cons... More About: Guitar , Practice
Free guitar lessons
2008-05-25 09:18:00 Today we feature a free book of guitar lessons billed as “all you need to start playing guitar”. Well, it certainly goes a long way towards filling that bill. I should mention up front that the free book is an introduction to a series of guitar lesson books that you can buy at the website, but there is no nagging and if the free lessons are anything to go by, they are probably worth the money. The free lessons are navigated by an index of lessons. You click on one of the free guitar lesson links and you are taken to a page you can read plus an mp3 for that lesson if you are comforted by the sound of someone reading to you. The first two lessons serve as an Introduction To Guitar which simply starts off on the basics as if you came from another planet and did not know what a guitar is. The next two lessons show you how to play the guitar strings and show photographs of how to place your fingers on the fret board for a clear sound. Next we get a basic explanation of open a... More About: Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
The Three Chord Trick
2008-05-23 11:10:00 Did you know that learning three chords will let you play practically any song you like? They have nifty Roman numeral labels - I, IV and V7 and are called the primary chords. The reason they are called primary chords is that they are chords that you need to know. If you know the primary chords in the key of C for example, you have the basic knowledge for learning any song in that key. The first chord is the tonic chord. The next is the dominant chord, and the third chord is the subdominant. Details on the three primary guitar chords are found at torvund.net Three Chord - Trick Technorati Tags: primary chords
Free guitar tabs
2008-05-22 07:49:00 We all have that idea lurking at the back of our heads that we don’t really need to learn how to play a guitar. What we really need is some free guitar tabs. Yeah, tabs of our favorite songs is what we need, our innate talent will do the rest. Just in case your ... More About: Guitar , Free , Tabs
Teach guitar as you learn
2008-05-20 03:45:00 Another place where guitar players of varying levels of experience hang out is WholeNote. See, the thing about learning to play guitar is that once you have learnt a thing or two you can pass it on to someone else. That’s right, there is now somebody who is more of a newbie than you! ... More About: Guitar , Learn
Google groups for beginner guitar players
2008-05-19 13:38:00 I have been lax in not mentioning Google groups before. Newsgroups have been around since the first computer crawled from the primordial slime. If you do not know about them, here is some quotes from the FAQ of alt.guitar.beginner: “What is a Usenet Newsgroup? Usenet is an online bulletin board system that began at Duke University ... More About: Players , Guitar , Beginner , Google Groups
What do you need to begin to learn guitar?
2008-05-18 14:27:00 Some new guitar students are inclined to follow their own instincts when they are looking for online guitar lessons. There is so much available on the net you are more likely to have too many guitar tabs and sheet music than too few. Anyway if you have a good idea of what kind of ... More About: Guitar , Learn
More free guitar lessons
2008-05-11 13:52:00 101 Free Guitar Tips is a collection of free guitar lessons on various aspects of learning to play the guitar. Here are some choice bits: “What Is The Link Between Performing And Practicing? The relationship between performing and practicing is deeply intertwined and at a certain level the distinction between the two virtually disappears. How To Slow ... More About: Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Learning the notes on the guitar fretboard
2008-05-09 13:16:00 Many guitarists develop a comfort zone of positions on the fretboard that they experience difficulty getting out of. The most basic is when you start off on the guitar by learning the notes and chords in the first position and somehow never get round to finding out where the notes and chords are further ... More About: Guitar , Notes , Learning
Learn to play slide guitar
2008-05-08 12:46:00 Slide guitar is a facet of guitar playing that looks very sexy and sounds good with very little effort. In the early 1900’s dangerous looking dudes apparently loved to produce a wailing effect from their guitars by running a knife blade along the strings with their left hands instead of fretting the strings with ... More About: Guitar , Play , Slide , Learn
Blues guitar - how do I begin to play?
2008-05-07 14:50:00 One of the first things you need to understand when learning blues guitar is that you will be using the guitar to imitate a person singing. When we say that the blues scale is the major scale with the 3rd, 5th and seventh played flat, that is just a rather awkward way of translating ... More About: Blues , Guitar , Play
Easy Guitar Tabs
2008-05-06 14:14:00 Guitar tabs are an easy solution for you if you have no idea of how to read sheet music but are constantly bugged by the notion that you want to be a guitarist. Guitar tabs are easy to learn and allow you to begin playing songs right away, even if you are not familiar ... More About: Guitar , Tabs , Easy
Neunundneunzig Free Guitar Lessons
2008-05-05 13:27:00 On our quest for free guitar lessons we sometimes come across a rare gem. This particular gem is a collection of guitar lessons dwelling in the guitar forums of the mighty Kirk Lorange. Up until now Kirk Lorange’s ninety-nine free guitar lessons have been scattered over several forums which made sorting through or even ... More About: Guitar , Free , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Bass Guitar Tab
2008-05-04 14:09:00 Bass tab has become a very popular method of writing bass guitar music. With this tool you can learn bass music fast without getting bogged down in a lot of unnecessary theoretical stuff. The bass player’s role is just to keep time. This is done by playing a ‘bassline’ which is usually a rhythmic’ sequence ... More About: Guitar , Bass
Free Online Guitar Lessons
2008-05-02 15:38:00 Here is a handy tool to add to your collection of free online guitar lesson links. It’s not a lesson as such but a program that can generate jam tracks to practice with. You can also make use of the short tutorials on learning how to solo, tuning your guitar and the free scale ... More About: Guitar , Free , Online , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Joe Satriani video guitar lesson
2008-05-01 13:28:00 Joe Satriani is a guitar player’s guitar player. His devotion to the guitar has led him to become a superstar in a music genre which prefers singers and song writers to instrumentalists. He is an innovator who has generously shared his techniques with up-and-coming guitarists while dazzling audiences with his technical virtuosity. Today’s Youtube ... More About: Video , Guitar , Lesson , Joe Satriani
A treasure chest for guitar players
2008-04-30 14:03:00 Public access TV is a corner of the universe where people share genuinely valuable knowledge about subjects that interest them. A shining example of this art form is Tom’s Guitar Show, a video guitar lesson program hosted by multi-instrumentalist Tom Nothnagle, has informative video presentations about every genre of guitar playing. “It’s about an ... More About: Players , Chest , Treasure
Who wants to learn how to play a blues solo?
2008-04-29 15:23:00 Blues solos are made up of licks strung together. Sometimes it is a bit daunting for guitar students to try make up their own blues solos. Today’s post introduces a video of a guitarist breaking up a solo into its components. The video is from Riffeo Video Music Lessons and Jam Tracks Community “. ... More About: Blues , Play , Solo , Learn
A blues video
2008-04-25 14:32:00 After the Second World War youthful artists like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were wrapping the blues in a new envelope called “rock’n'roll” and the players of the electric blues guitar like B.B. King were heralding the arrival of the lead guitar, soon to be a great attraction for both musicians and audiences. Throughout ... More About: Video , Blues
Reading music - is it really difficult?
More articles from this author:2008-04-24 08:09:00 Like all burning questions, the answer to this is both “yes” and “no”. Guitar playing is what people these days call a “journey”. What that means is that you will have times when the job ahead is too hard, too tiring, too boring and too much. Then if you persist, you will be rewarded ... More About: Music , Reading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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