Chord Progression Lesson from Next Level Guitar for Acoustic Guitar
Here is yet another excellent beginner acoustic guitar lesson taught by David Taub with Next Level Guitar.
If you haven’t had the chance to check out Next Level Guitar, then I Highly recommend you visit their website to check out all they have to offer. They have over 785 online guitar lessons and for a small fee, you can become a member today! Check out my review of Next Level Guitar Here .
This lesson is in the key of e minor.
Here are the chords you will be learning in this video: EmAdd2, Cmaj7, Dsus4add2, Amadd2, Fmaj7#11, Gadd6, Am9
How to Adjust the Action on Your Guitar
By Shaun Conrad
You may have heard people at guitar repair shops or other guitarists talk about guitar action, but what is guitar action? Guitar action is the height of the guitar strings above the fretboard. Obviously, the higher strings make the guitar more difficult to play and lower strings make the guitar easier to play. Both excessively high action and excessively low action can cause problems with your guitar. In this article, I want to show you how to adjust the action on your guitar.
Adjusting your action is probably the most common guitar repair that I see in my guitar repair shop. Most people just ask for a guitar setup, but what they really want is their action lowered. There are three steps to properly lowering the action on a guitar, but first we need to look at what is causing the action problem.
How to Play Lovebug by The Jonas Brothers on Acoustic Guitar – Easy Guitar Song
Lovebug by The Jonas Brother Guitar Tutorial
“Lovebug” is the second single by The Jonas Brothers band. It is off of their third studio album “A Little Bit Longer “, released in August of 2008. This song peaked at position 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. Learn more over at Wikipedia.
This acoustic guitar lesson is taught by Marty Schwartz in the video tutorial below. This lesson was designed with the absolute beginner in mind. It was simplified somewhat so that anyone can play it. It is therefore not meant to be exactly like the original. That being said, let us move on.
Memorizing The Fretboard – Easy Guitar Lesson
Here is a fantastic lesson by Neal Walter a guitarist and instructor for GuitarTricks. Neal will provide you with a bunch of excellent tips that will make learning the guitar fretboard a much easier task. There are a number of helpful methods out there that help you memorize the notes on your guitar, but I found this lesson to be one of the most helpful and effective for me personally at least. Neal breaks down the fretboard bit by bit making things much easier to digest so its not so intimidating.
Guitar Tricks 42: Memorizing The Fretboard – Easy Guitar Lesson
Katy Perry Firework Guitar Tutorial – Easy Acoustic Guitar Song
Learn How to Play “Firework” by Katy Perry on Acoustic Guitar
Firework was written by Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm and Ester Dean. It is from her third studio album entitled “Teenage Dream ” Released in 2010. This song was an extremely successful hit for Perry landing a top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Learn more about this song over at Wikipedia.
This is a fairly easy acoustic guitar song to play, at least the way Marty teaches it in the video lesson below. You will need a capo on the first fret to play along with this tutorial. Not sure what a capo is or how to use one? Follow this link for a lesson on using a guitar capo.
Guitar and Singing Performance Tips
In the video below, Mark Lincoln with JamPlay, will share some excellent performance tips that he has acquired over his 20 years as a singer and guitarist.
A big thanks to the folks over at Jamplay for sharing this awesome video guitar lesson.
JamPlay is a membership only service which broadcasts high-definition video guitar lessons. They teach by “lesson set” instead of just flopping out a ton of small video clips. They start with the very basics like tuning your guitar, finger placement, and basic chords, and move on to finger-picking, palm muting, hammer ons, pull offs, and many more advanced topics as you progress through the lessons. When you have time, I highly recommend you check them out! Click here to visit JamPlay.
Check out some more video lesson samples from Jamplay below!
First Cut is the Deepest as Performed by Sheryl Crow – Easy Acoustic Guitar Song
First Cut is the Deepest Guitar Lesson
Learn how to play the song “The First Cut Is the Deepest “ as performed by Sheryl Crow. This song was actually written by Cat Stevens and originally released by P.P. Arnold in the spring of 1967. This song has been covered by a number of different artists over the years, but only a handful became popular. Cheryl’s version is one of them. You can learn more about this song over at Wikipedia.
This version of the song, taught by Marty Schwartz in the video lesson below, is an easy beginner acoustic version of the song. The chords needed to play this song are: D Major, G Major and A Major. That is it. No other chords needed.
The strumming pattern is also quite easy: DDD DU (Where D= Down, U= Up).
New Acoustic Guitar Chord Progression for the Beginner
Another excellent lesson from David Taub with Next level guitar. This is a great lesson for the absolute beginner out there who is looking for a simple way to take your guitar playing to another level.
In this lesson, David will first teach you how to play 4 very basic guitar chords.
These are all very easy chords that David will be teaching you that only require one or two fingers to play and they are: E Minor, G Major, Asus2 and Am9. With the G Major chord, you are welcome to play a normal G Major chord. If you aren’t able to , David will teach you a scaled down version of a G. You will only need one finger to play this G chord. Watch the video for a complete demonstration on how to play all of these chords, or you can click the links above that will take you to separate lessons on how to play each chord.
David will then teach you several different strumming patterns to use with these 4 chords.
How to Play the Song One by U2 – Easy Acoustic Guitar Lesson
Learn How to Play the Song “One” by U2
The lesson below, taught by Marty Schwartz with GuitarJamz, is an easier acoustic version of the original song.
This lesson is taught in standard tuning. The chords you will need for this song are: A Minor, D Major, F Major (You can play the full barre chord version or an easy version of F Major Here), G Major, C Major..
Chord Progression Lesson From Next Level Guitar
This is another fantastic video guitar lesson from David Taub with Next Level Guitar. If you are a beginner, stuck in a rut and tired of playing the same old boring chord progressions, then this lesson will be especially helpful and enjoyable.
David is going to demonstrate how to play something that sounds beautiful without being impossible to play.
One trick that makes this chord progression easier is that David is using moveable chords. This means you can play the same chord shape at different locations on the guitar fret board. You just slide your hand up and down the fretboard while maintaining the same chord shape.
Apart from being fairly easy to play, these chords also sound quite beautiful as they utilize the open strings of your guitar. Learn exactly how its done by watching the lengthy video tutorial below.
