The Beginners Guide to Playing the Acoustic Guitar
Learning acoustic guitar is an extremely broad topic. One that would no doubt fill many books. The following guide focuses on some of the most important aspects of playing guitar providing you with an excellent starting point. This guide was written for the right handed, absolute beginner using a steel string guitar. My apologies to all of you left handed guitarists in advance. Read more
Beginner Guitar Lesson: Finger & Thumb Positions
How to position your hands, fingers and thumbs may seem obvious to some, but there is a right and wrong way to do this. Watch the video below and learn the proper hand, finger and thumb positioning as well as instructions on how to hold your pick. This lesson will teach you how to develop good guitar playing habits early on, which is extremely important. Far too many beginners develop bad playing habits which are very difficult to break if not corrected.
How To Hold An Acoustic Guitar
Learn the proper way to hold your acoustic guitar with this free video lessons. Holding your acoustic guitar is not an exact science. Everyone has different body types, finger lengths and there are a variety of different sizes and shapes of guitars. There are many points to keep in mind and it ultimately comes down to how comfortable you are when holding and playing your guitar.
Guitar Lesson – Lead Scales – Pentatonic Major & Minor
A lesson on the pentatonic scale and the difference between the major and minor version.
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Guitar Lesson- Get your Guitar in Tune
This is an awesome beginner guitar lesson that teaches how to properly tune your guitar using what is known as the “5th Fret Technique”. This is a great technique to learn if you don’t have a guitar tuner handy or if you are feeling adventurous. Now, it is definitely recommended that you purchase a guitar tuner. Using a guitar tuner is definitely the best way to tune your guitar and is certainly more accurate than your own ear, but some of you may want your guitar in tune now, so here we go..
How to Keep Your Electric or Acoustic Guitar in Tune
In this video David Taub from Next Level Guitar provides some excellent tips on keeping your guitar in tune. Many beginners often get frustrated and blame their guitars thinking there is something mechanically wrong. This may be, but more often then not, it is a problem with the guitarist and not the guitar.
Learning Guitar Theory – First 5 Steps
By Mike Beatham
Learning guitar can be split into two main categories – the physical and the theoretical. The physical aspects of learning guitar are the finger exercises and techniques you use to manifest your theoretical knowledge on the fretboard. As you can probably see, one cannot exist without the other. Once you’ve learned those first few chords, basic strumming/picking patterns and scale fingerings, and you begin to focus more closely on things like harmony and tonality, there is often an overwhelming feeling that there is much more to learning guitar than just “where to put your fingers”.
Easy Acoustic Guitar Song – Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
Easy Guitar Song Lesson – “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi
Learn how to play Bon Jovi’s: “It’s My Life” with this easy to follow guitar lesson. It’s My Life is a single from the album “Crush
6 Essential Elements To Getting The Best Rock Guitar Tone
By Eric Stein
Getting awesome rock guitar tone is not hard. I have heard professional players play through low-quality, out-of-tune, distorted equipment and it sounded great! This says 2 things; one – your tone is in your hands, two – distortion is a good thing and on your side! In most history of the speaker, the goal was to be crystal clear, not until some rocker decided to turn his amp up too loud and distort the sound,real rock guitar tone was born. As an added fact, I forget who, but some famous guitarist actually used to buy radio brand shack speakers (because they sounded the worst), and then cut them with razor blades to get the sound they were looking for… beautiful. Ok, let’s move on to the 7 essential elements to getting the best rock guitar tone.
