When You Are New to Learning Guitar

When you first decide that you want to learn to play guitar, things can be a bit confusing. You’re filled with all this anticipation, but most students don’t even know where to start out. And that can be very annoying. Well the very first thing you need is a guitar. Yup, before you can understand guitar you in fact require a guitar.
A beginner guitar
Plenty of people actually ask what a good beginner guitar is. My answer is that there is no true beginner guitar. On the other hand, I do have some input for why I think beginners should get a certain kind of guitar. Personally I think its ideal to learn guitar on a pretty Low-cost guitar. Simply because if you learn on a Inexpensive guitar then, not just will you appreciate the more luxurious guitars more, but you will also notice the difference when you upgrade, and probably notice that more pricey doesn’t always mean better.
In addition Its much easier for a beginner to learn to play guitar on either a classical nylon string guitar or an electric guitar. Simply because the strings have less tension and they’re easier to play without agonizing your fingers. myself I learned on a quite cheap steal string guitar, still, it is actually the most difficult guitar I have ever played. That guitar completely calloused my finger tips because I played it all the time, till I finally upgraded. Now I don’t recommend you get a guitar that is tough to play, trust me if I had a choice I would rather the strings be easier to play. But when your guitar isn’t perfect, you definitely enjoy better guitars, no matter the price. But if you’re an acoustic guitar fan particularly if your on a budget I recommend that you learn guitar on a classical guitar, and most are fairly cheap.
Play Guitar
So now you have your guitar, now you need to learn to play guitar. So, what is the very best way to learn guitar? There are lots of options out there for the novice guitarist. But, which one is the best? Well lets look at the options.
You can learn from a teacher.
If you learn from a personal teacher it could be excellent because you have someone right there with you who is a professional and they can correct you when you mess up. Nevertheless instructors can be very high-priced and they are not always reliable.
You can learn to play guitar from a book
Guitar guides are full of information, and can help you understand chord patterns very easily. Nonetheless books can not consistently teach some techniques, especially if you need to hear the technique. However for theory, scales and chords books are fantastic.
You can learn by video
With video you can truly witness whats going on and correct your techniques. However with videos you feel like you have to keep up with the teacher and your playing and enthusiasm can suffer from this. Especially since its hard to follow tabs or notes when they keep moving…
You can learn to play on-line
Currently If you have a computer this is definitely the finest choice. Learning on-line combines the best of all the previous options. And its usually less than the price of one or two private lessons. Additionally some courses even have certain built in software that will make learning feel like a video game and makes guitar easy. The only thing missing is someone who is actually right in front of you correcting you.

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The Best Ways to Learn a Guitar

Lots of people want to learn the guitar but they aren’t always sure where they should start. For beginners out there who don’t know the first thing about a guitar or playing one, here some tips so you can be playing like Jimi Hendrix in no time. After all, playing a guitar is a great way to relax and reduce stress.
First, get a good guitar that will not impede your playing or learning ability. I have seen many instances where the guitar is the problem, not the student. Make sure the “action and playability” (distance of the string to the neck) of the guitar are good and that it is correctly intonated (the bridge adjusted so the strings are the correct length) or you will have tuning and playing problems that are not your fault. Also learning on light gauge strings is advised to stop finger strain it is worth paying a few extra dollars to have the guitar ’set up’ before your start to play.
Second, get a good teacher or at least a good DVD that explains the methods of learning in a simple and easy manner and will ensure you are playing ’songs’ or at least ‘riffs’ within the first lesson. Avoid learning boring scales and exercises that will de-motivate you. These can be done later. Try to learn individually (one on one) rather than in a group situation.
Third, practice every day for at least 10 minutes, and always practice what you cant play rather than what you can otherwise you will not progress. Try to learn simple versions of songs you know so you can sing along (even if it’s just in your mind) with the song.
Fourth, learn a mixture of chords, single notes, scales and riffs even at the first stages of learning. This is important to develop your technique and strength in the finger and wrist. Moreover, have the guitar, if possible, on a stand where it is easily accessible, so you will want to pick it up often. If it’s in a case under the bed you will forget about it. If it’s next to the TV you will pick it up more often.
Fifth, know how to tune your guitar and always have a tuner or at least a pitch pipe to ensure you are in tune otherwise you will sound horrible. Use a metronome or even a basic drum machine so you can stay in time and develop a sense of rhythm. This is one of the most neglected areas of learning and often the biggest cause of bad habits later on in a student’s progress.
Sixth, try to learn songs you enjoy and in a style you like. It is no use playing Metallica songs if you like Bob Dylan. However its not a bad idea to learn new styles but stick to what you know and like at least in the beginning. This way you will keep your interest in playing the guitar up while you are just starting out.
Finally, record yourself and listen back to it. No matter how awful it may sound it will improve both your desire and your ability to play better. Also if you want to play lead guitar, play over a recorded rhythm part so you have a musical backing to play to. This will improve your solo ability dramatically.
By using these tips, you will keep your interest in the guitar up and help you learn much better than you normally would have otherwise. Learning a guitar is great and you want to make the experience as enjoyable as possible.

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9 Rocking Tips For How to Play the Electric Guitar

So you’ve gotten your first electric guitar, and you’re thinking about becoming a rock star. You’ve been working on your skills, and you want to begin wowing the babes. Here’s a list of nine tips to help you keep on rocking in the free world:
1. Keep your strings fresh – Electric guitar strings lose some of their luster, and can sound tinny over time. A good rule of thumb is to change them every 3 months or so.
2. Get a tuner – Nothing is worse than listening to some wannabe bang out Clapton’s “Cocaine” on an out of tune guitar. While you need to develop your ear, you also want to keep that electric in tune.
3. Don’t be afraid to play loud – You’ve got the skills. Now let your neighbors hear it. If you want to play with the big boys, you’ve got to build that confidence. Nothing helps with that more than being able to hear what you’re playing. If you wanted to be quiet you would have bought an acoustic anyway.
4. Get an effects pedal – If you want to sound like Guns ‘N Roses, Green Day, or The Red Hot Chili Peppers, you’re going to need an effects pedal. Whether you want reverb, chorus, echo, distortion, or other sounds, you can’t get them without a pedal or a special amp. The pedals are cheaper.
5. Stretch your fingers – Many aspiring guitar players don’t realize the importance of a solid stretching routine. Stretching loosens the fine motor muscles involved in playing electric guitar, and allows faster muscle memory retention. It also increases dexterity, and diminishes fatigue.
6. Know your fret board – Most electric guitars have six strings with about 21 frets. That makes for about 126 notes. That allows for a ton of diversity in note selection. Knowing the board can speed up your guitar learning, playing, and mastery.
7. Learn and practice scales – The cornerstone of any good electric guitar player is often mastery of scales. Working on these exercises helps increase speed, dexterity, muscle memory, strength, and you’d be surprised how many riffs are actually just adapted scales.
8. Slow down to speed up – Sometimes a riff can be difficult to learn at full speed. When you are having difficulty with a rocking riff, slowing it down can often speed up how fast you learn it.
9. Actively listen – Many new guitar players fail to realize the importance of having a decent ear. The tonal quality of a guitar has tremendous impact on an overall performance. Knowing when you are a little out of tune is helpful, and so is knowing what your common chord structures sound like, so be sure to work on that ear.
To improve your guitar skills, be sure to implement the nine tips above as you learn how to play the electric guitar.

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How to Learn Bass Guitar Online

If you have an interest to  learn bass guitar, you will find it to be a very rewarding instrument to play. The bass guitar player is an important member of the band. The quality of the group's playing depends largely on how well the bass player keeps in time. Not only are the demands heavy but the rewards are great. It only takes a short time to get up and running as a bass guitarist and once you have learnt a few basic bass lines and worked out whether you are a plectrum player or a plucker, you will be able to start improvising your own bass licks.
There are two ways to learn bass online. One is to take advantage of the many free bass lessons on the web. These online bass guitar lessons will help you to understand how the place of the bass guitar in a band, music theory, reading sheet music and tabs as well as giving you basic rhythms to play. Some of the bass lessons you find will have some kind of interactive component where you can play along with riffs or a backing track.
Of course, many of the bass guitar lesson sites are offering paid courses, but there are also some good free lessons. If you do a search for "online bass guitar lessons" (without the quotes will give you more results) you will be able to compare the various paid lesson courses for bass guitarists, and you will get a chance to compare them with the free courses. If you decide to learn to play bass guitar for free you will probably need to find yourself some free bass guitar tabs on the internet. There are many places that offer bass tabs for popular songs. Another option for the bass guitar student on a budget is YouTube. If you go looking for online bass lessons on video you will probably find about a thousand clips, all offering something of value to the beginner.
As a bass player you must learn to play in time. A newbie guitar player can spend years playing guitar with the tempo and timing all over the place because he does not have to play with other musicians. The bass guitarist's job is to play in a band so the sooner you get any little rhythmic or timing peccadillos ironed out, the better. For this you will need a metronome. Type "free metronome" into a search engine, find one you like and bookmark it if it is online, although there are metronomes you can download for free. The same goes for a tuner. There are quite good bass guitar tuners online. You will also be able to find free backing tracks for guitar online. Playing along to these is a great way to get the feel of playing in a band. You can tell the program what chords to play and the time signature, and you can play along to the looped track online or download it in mp3 format. For more inspiration find video clips and mp3's by leading bass guitar players like Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Waylon Tisdale, John Pattitucci, Mike Mason or Miroslav Vitous.

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Easy to Learn Guitar Tabs for Peter Gunn

It is easy to learn guitar tabs. Only one basic idea needs to be understood, the rest falls into place. To illustrate this idea I will be using tabs for a simple piece of music called Peter Gunn. Guitar tabs are seen by learning guitar players as an easy way to start playing guitar right away. That is true but it is wrong to think that guitar tablature just needs to be read. Like all languages it needs to be understood. So if you have an idea that you would like to become a guitar player and tabs would be a great way to sidestep any difficult learning, there are a couple of things you need to get straight.
For somebody who just wants to play along with the singing around a campfire, it must look like a fairly easy job to play the guitar. Lots of people can do it and many of them are idiots. But when you look at a piece of guitar tab it looks kind of scary. Well, look again. It is just a picture of a guitar. Visualize it in your imagination. The tuning end of the guitar is to your left, the body of the guitar is to your right. The thinnest string is on the top, the thickest string is on the bottom. Nothing scary about that.
Moving on, we see numbers on the guitar tab. What are they? The numbers running down the left side are the notes sounded when you play the open strings, the numbers that run along the strings represent frets. Frets are the metal strips on the neck of the guitar. You put your fingers a fraction behind the frets to alter the length of the string, so that when it is plucked, strummed or picked the sound is higher or lower depending on how far up the fingerboard you are. So the number one, for example, indicates that one of your fingers must be placed behind the first fret of the guitar. This is the fret closest to the tuning gear on the end of the neck.
Now let us look at a section of guitar tab. This is a short riff from a piece of music called Peter Gunn. It was written by Henry Mancini who probably wrote most of the orchestral music that most of us have ever heard, and it has been recorded by many artists, notably The Blues Brothers, Jimi Hendrix and Emerson, Lake And Palmer. The first recording of it was a hit for electric guitar pioneer, Duane Eddy.
All the notes are played on the sixth string - the thickest string, remember? If you play the piano, try it out, the notes are E E F# E G E A G# played as one bar in 4/4 time.
e------------------------------
B------------------------------
G------------------------------
D------------------------------
A------------------------------
E--0--0--2--0--3--0--5--4--
To play the tabs use down strokes with the pick or your thumb. Once you have played the notes once, go back to the start and play them again until you are tired. Congratulations, now you know first hand that it is easy to learn guitar tabs. Really you have all you need to go on and learn your favorite songs. Not many songs have not been put into tab form, so it is just a matter or searching on the net. As your technique gets better, you will find that there are symbols that represent any left hand guitar technique you will learn. If you find tabs for a song that you like, and it contains symbols you do not understand, the tab often has an explanatory key at the top or the bottom. Or you can just look on the popular tab sites for explanations of any symbols you do not know.

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Electric Guitar Lessons Online – Advantages of Learning Electric Guitar Online

You may have been inspired by the most popular rock band when you saw them playing in their latest concert and you suddenly have this passion in learning to play electric guitar.
Who could blame you, guitarists are simply the most famous member in a rock band, and they just totally rule and make all the girls sway at their feet. So if you want to follow their footstep, it’s about time you get some serious consideration in your desire to learn your instrument well.
You don’t have to worry about the expensive guitar lessons that are offered in music schools, make use of the free resources over the internet and you can be a rock star in your own right.
To find free electric guitar lessons online, all you need to do is perform a standard search in your favorite search engine. You’ll be amazed of the results; your search can return thousands of websites catering to your interest.
Electric guitar lessons online can come in many forms, free sponsored sites, paid sites, e-book format and others may offer DVD instructional video.
Whether free or paid sites, these online guitar lessons are well covered, and you can be assured that you will learn how to play your electric guitar after your session has expired.
Most websites offering electric guitar lessons have instructional video that students can easily follow. The instructional video is a simple but effective tool in demonstrating theories into practice, and many beginners find it convenient to play and replay at their own pace and convenience.
One such site is Ben Edwards Jamorama. They provide over 60 instructional videos on how to play the guitar. You can learn how to play the guitar by watching how others play at your own time and pace.

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Learning Beginner Guitar Songs from Tabs

When you get your first guitar and take some lessons, the first thing you want to do is learn to play a song or two. You are painfully aware of your status as a beginner guitar player but you want to learn a song or a riff or a tune that sounds really cool.
Maybe you're up to learning your first chord. You are feeling a little bit shaky getting your fingers around the first chord but you are looking forward to introducing it to your second. A beginner guitar tutor always helps but if you are going to make some progress, you will have to start learning some songs.
Guitar songs are songs that highlight the guitar in some way and they are often quite easy to learn. When you start guitar lessons the pressure is on from friends and relatives to "play something" so let's look at what's available.
Many songs by The Grateful Dead are great for beginners to learn. Some of their songs carry heavy bluegrass overtones. Give American Beauty a try. Or Workingman's Dead. Whether you are learning electric or acoustic guitar, these are ideal beginner guitar songs.
The Ramones recorded songs that a beginner guitar player could learn and so did Nirvana. Get some tabs for Smells Like Teen Spirit. Whatever you choose you will find that learning songs is the way to go if you don't need to go too far into the theory and mechanics of guitar music. If you are working on a song that you enjoy, the chord fingerings and the strumming patterns will get into your fingers all the more quickly.
One recommendation from an amateur guitar player I heard recently was to buy the Nirvana Unplugged DVD and the tabs for the album. You've got your intro to the world of guitar in one package. Psycho Killer by Talking Heads uses the chords Am, G, F and C and the strumming is easy. If you decide to learn to play songs from tabs, rather than just accepting the tab as being correct, play the tab along with the song and try and pick any bits where the tab varies from the CD. Or look for places where you can change the music to make the song your own.
Finally, let's depart a little from guitar songs and take in a reminder that power chords consist of just two or three notes that can be played up and down the fretboard. You can play any song using power chords even though it isn't a permanent solution.

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Learn how to Play Acoustic Guitar Fast and Easy, the Jamorama Multimedia Acoustic Guitar Lessons

So, you would love to learn to play the guitar? Then why not learn to play guitar online. Yes you heard me right learn online! Who said you had to pay ridiculously high rates to a teacher when you can learn it yourself. No more trying to fit in lessons when they don't suit you because you can do it at home at any time that suits you. No dealing with transportation, babysitting, illness, cancellations and so on.
You maybe someone who doesn't have the money for lessons so this could be a great opportunity for you also. Most people who learn this way love the fact that they can do it at any time of the day. No traveling required or times to juggle. If you're a mum with little kids then it can be done when they are in bed. In this day and age most people's lives are very fast paced and there is often little time for going back and forth to lessons.
If this sounds like you then why not take the plunge and do something that you have always wanted to do in the privacy of your own home and for a minimal amount of money.
With the development of the World Wide Web, music teachers have gone online to offer lessons to adults in the comfort and convenience of their own homes.
In This article you will learn the importance to learn how to play acoustic guitar by a very famous guitar player and teacher, Ben Edward.
Ben Edward is a highly respected guitar teacher. He is the former lead guitarist for the popular down-under band "DegreesK", who he toured with internationally.
Before joining the band he gained a Bachelor of Education. His passion for teaching others, especially guitar, sparked him to develop Jamorama - The Ultimate Guitar Learning Kit and now the Jamorama Acoustic Guitar Learning Kit .
He designed Jamorama Acoustic Guitar to be a complete learning system, and the easiest to follow guitar learning method available. It comes jam-packed with information.
He teaches guitar fluency and teaches you how to use your ear to bring you to the stage where you can play virtually any guitar song that you hear. He uses well known songs to guide your learning right from the start! He has made each song very easy for you to learn by breaking them down into small parts, so you can practice each part individually and then put it all together.
Jamorama Acoustic Guitar is packed full of quality step-by-step lessons, video files, games and other resources to get YOU results fast! .
Ben has integrated 153 video lessons and 26 high quality Acoustic Jam Tracks for you to play along with! You can turn the guitar track off and play along with our percussionist and bass guitarist or you can leave the guitar track playing and try and keep up.
All in all, Jamorama Acoustic Guitar contains 259 pages of information in 153 step-by-step acoustic video lessons in two high quality books that take you on a journey from beginner to advanced in your guitar playing. That includes high-quality video lessons, Acoustic Jam Tracks, hundreds of lines of tablature, and my hugely popular software learning games.
To read more about What Ben Edwards has provided and done for you to make this as easy as possible to learn to play the guitar and also more about Jamorama Acoustic Guitar kit, please visit.. . http://tinyurl.com/4nzs5r,

Advantages of Learning to Play the Guitar Online:
1. A beginner may forget about textbooks and magazines because online learning will provide a beginner the exact guitar lessons and have audio visual images that allow a person to see and hear the tones he will follow.
2. A person will be provided with high quality tablature. Online lessons will teach a person how to read TAB. This will allow a person to easily pick up the guitar TAB, and read it faster than learning from textbooks or magazines.
3. Online lessons about the same as hiring a personal guitar instructor. There are techniques and methods a person may develop in his continuing learning about the guitar.
4. It will provide a person unlimited access to the guitar lesson. A person may choose when he wants to access his lessons.
5. Online lessons will help a person develop his own technique of playing the guitar. He will be able to execute soloing styles and he may apply these when playing.
6. A person may save more money because of the free access that an online guitar lesson offers. Hiring a personal instructor may be expensive especially if he is a slow learner.
7. A person will learn the correct way to use finger style techniques and realize that he will have more knowledge of picking and strumming.
8. A person may learn how to write his own songs and be creative with the notes of his composition.


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Beginner Guitar Lesson Video: Beginning Scales

This lesson will cover the first set of scales you can learn regardless of what type of music you are interested in playing.

This might not work for all of you beginner guitar players, but i started off just learning songs that i liked and fooled around a lot to make it more fun. Then when i started to get the hang of using a guitar and feeling comfurtable i started to learn stuff like this. Try it! :)

You aren´t going to understand straight away..like everything it takes time.....

My advice, this video is not pretty easy to get, even if your a beginner. Learn the scales on paper first, then learn the notes on the fretboard, then play the scales. You'll get it quickly, just practice

Learn Guitar Easy: Truth or Fiction?

Ok, this all depends on the angle that you decide to look at it. For the people that are naturally music inclined, it would be easy. But for those that are not, it might not be so easy. Despite this difference, guitar is really not as easy or as hard as people may think.
Think back to the day that you came across a guitar for the first time, what went through your mind? Bet it was something like, "boy! Is that a cool instrument or what?" Regardless what you thought, guitar playing is what it is.
If one takes it as being difficult, then that is exactly what it is going to be. But if they take it as being easy, then that is what it will be. To take this a step further, let us look at the two separately.
Guitar is Difficult
The one surprising thing that you might come across, if you have not already, is the fact that some people want to learn guitar without having to deal with everything that comes with it. Things like learning tabs, chords, notes, the fret board, practice techniques and the list goes on.
Learning Tabs
If you want to play the guitar but don't want to learn to read guitar music, it would be wise to know your tabs. After all, how do you expect to know what you are doing on your guitar if you can't read tabs.
Chords and Notes
Then there are the rare few that think they can magically skip learning or knowing the chords and notes. How can one play the guitar if they do not know what A flat (Ab ) or A sharp (A#) are. Playing the guitar is not a magic trick, hence it deserves it due diligence.
Fret Board
Now tell me, who has ever heard of playing the guitar without the fret board? No one I bet, unless there is a guitar out there that has no fret board then I guess that the people that are avoiding learning their frets have a big chance of learning guitar the easy way.
Practice and Practice Methods
Each and every person knows that practice is one of the requirements for improving at anything. You can't expect to get better at playing the guitar by simply looking at the instrument days on end. That just won't cut it. You need to do your part as a guitar player.
Guitar is Easy
If you are nothing like the guys in the above scenarios, then you have nothing to worry about. By the way, the things mentioned above are not the only things that are needed to learn the guitar, there are many more.
The only thing that you need to be armed with is the desire to put in all the effort and learn some or all the cardinal things needed to be a guitar player. Then and only then will you be closer to having learn guitar easy.

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Learn Guitar Teachers are quickly becoming an Endangered Species – Use of Video Lessons on the Rise

Learning Guitar is Becoming Increasingly easier thanks to new technology. It wasn’t all that long ago that kids were going to take guitar lessons after school from an individual, now they’re rushing home and turning on their computer to watch video guitar lessons.
It’s happened quickly but online and dvd video instruction is surpassing private lessons as the preferred method of learning guitar for students both old and young. Why? Well like everything else we’re find it easier and faster to handle this part of our lives with the assistance of computers,and the Internet.
An online guitar course which is done entirely via the Internet and a computer costs far less then private guitar lessons and does not require the student to leave the house. Also since it’s a self study program students can watch lessons and practice when it’s right for them, no schedules..
Another point is that the best guitar lessons online are often taught by teachers who are far more skilled then those you could find locally to teach you guitar as a beginner. So choosing to learn online can be as much about saving money as it is about the speed with which you learn and the quality of the instrument.
How does this shift affect music schools, stores and instuctors?
Enrolment is lower then it used to be at many music stores offering lessons, how ever this is primarily in the mature student market (those over 30 years of age). Younger children and teenagers, or possibly their parents, still seem to be embracing the private lesson model.
There is a group of instructors who have started creating their own lesson videos and either posting them to video websites such as youtube or their own websites and blogs. This offers an additional revenue stream for many of these teachers who may teach guitar full-time. It may be a great business decision for them as they can reach more people online then they possibly could locally and videos can teach more then one person at once.

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3 reasons why learning the guitar online is the Superior Method for Beginners

Beginner guitarists have quite a few choices for how they learn to play guitar There are dvd courses, private lessons and of course online guitar lessons. Each method of instruction has good and bad points.
I believe that for a motivated self starter online lessons are likely the best guitar lessons out there.
Easy Access
Online guitar lessons are available more or less any where you can get access to the web. Most membership sites I’ve been a part of provide their lesson content in a low, medium and high bandwidth format. That means that you can adjust the quality and size of the video you watch based on the Internet connection you’re using to view them.
Low Time Requirement
Generally speaking most online guitar videos are short snippets about a broad topic. This makes it easy for busy individuals to watch a short video clip rather then have to commit to a 30 minute lesson when they may not have the free time at that moment.
If you only have a very short window of time and you want to watch a quick lesson then these shorter videos make that possible and you can still feel like you’re progressing with your dream to learn the guitar.
You’re In Control
Something I always thought held me back from learning more on the guitar was the fact that I was willing to put in far more work then was required for my one guitar lesson a week. I would go to my lesson on Tuesday night and practice for a couple of hours both Wednesday and Thursday night, and by Friday I was ready for something new but I still have four more days to wait until my next lesson.
Online guitar lessons provide you with lots of content right away so if you’re eager to learn quickly you can, if not then you can take your time it’s entirely up to you
If you’re excited to learn and have the time you can digest 3, 4 or even 5 lessons a week and practice them as well. Of course on the flip side if you’re busy and only have a few 15-20 minutes one week then you can watch a short lesson but not feel guilty about falling behind since you’re entirely in control of the learning process.
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Learning Guitar 101

So you have finally decided to learn guitar. You have come to the right place. I will be offering advice and give reviews on good places were you can get guitar lessons. can be fun and easy. You can even learn how to play guitar right in the comfort of your own home. There are so many different programs that help you learn guitar.
Some people learn how to play guitar on their own, however the majority of people are not able to learn guitar on their own without any help. At the top of this site I have posted a link that will take you step by step in learning the guitar. I have found many of my students say the guitar lessons really excelled them in their ability to learn guitar.
In the beginning it is good to have patience. Start out learning a few cords and then practice them. Weather you want to play country or rock knowing simple cords is the key to getting started.
Once you have mastered a few cords keep learning more and more. Then you can begin to use variations of these cords to play songs you know or write new ones. This is some of the steps in learning how to play guitar.
I have had my students try different course programs that help them to learn guitar. One good thing about the courses you can take from home is that you decide when you want to take you guitar lessons. You can also decide how many times you want to repeat a guitar lessons.
This gives you flexibility and now time is on your side and fits into any schedule. Most of my new students learn guitar basics and are already playing songs by the end of a weekend. is always easer than the person thinks. People of all ages can achieve many different levels when they decide to learn how to play guitar.
Click on the above link to check out the course. You can learn electric and acoustic guitar with this course. I am will reviewing another course for those people who really want to get the most out of their guitar lessons. For now I have found at least one very good course. I will post the next course in the same place at the top of this page.
So remember you can learn guitar and knowing how to play guitar is easy. Just work on those guitar lessons a few times a week to improve on your skills.
Please visit some of my web sites at Guitar Lessons and How To Play Guitar


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Five Things you Must Do while taking Blues Guitar Lessons

Without a doubt blues is the most popular sub style of guitar playing. To become a master at the entire instrument can take years to accomplish, but one of the greatest things about the blues is you can get started with some simple tips and techniques. Today I have five essential topics you have to cover while learning, and if you choose to follow them you’ll be propelled ahead of the pack when taking blues guitar lessons.
The Basics of 12 Bar Blues
If there is one essential ingredient in everything blues, it’s the 12 bar blues pattern. There is a bit of musical theory behind the concept once you under it you’ll be able to quickly start playing it right away.
The twelve bar blues pattern is made up of three different chords known as the one, the four and the five of a given key, these are often denoted as the I, IV and V. If one, four, five is new to you then you may want to familiarize yourself with it first, how ever it’s not all that tough to understand.
Below is the simple pattern made up of the one, the four and the five chords for the 12 bar blues:
1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 4 – 4 – 1 – 1 – 5 – 4 – 1 – 5
In the example above the 1 is for the one chord, the 4 the four chord and the 5 the five chord.

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