Basic Beginner Guitar Chord Lesson – Learn To Play Esus4

Learn how to play the easy basic beginner guitar chord Esus4 with this free guitar lesson. The Esus4 guitar chord (also known as E Suspended 4) is found in the E Major Scale: E  F# G# A  B  C# D# E. It is made up of the 1 (root note), 4 and 5  of this scale. Meaning the notes E, A and B.

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Basic Beginner Guitar Chord – Learn How to Play CAdd9

Learn how to play the guitar chord with this free beginner guitar lesson. The C Add 9 Guitar Chord is a basic beginner guitar chord and fairly easy to play.

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Beginner Guitar Lesson – A7 Guitar Chord

The A7 Guitar Chord (also known as a Dominant A 7th Chord) is often referred to as a Blues chord. Once you learn to play it, you will understand why. It just has a real bluesy sound to it. It is definitely one of the easiest beginner chords to learn how to play. There are several different ways to play it, but I will demonstrate the easiest way in the following post.

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Learn Guitar Quick – The Minor Pentatonic Scale

By Robert M. Matthews

The name “pentatonic” comes from a couple of Greek words: “penta” – a prefix meaning five and “tonic” – which makes reference to a tone. Thus a pentatonic scale is a scale consisting of only five notes. This is opposed to the full diatonic scales which contain all seven tones of the musical alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). The pentatonic minor scale is a very popular scale and is heavily used in blues, classic rock, heavy rock, jazz and other popular genres.

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Beginner Guitar Lesson – How To Play a Chromatic Scale

This is a very easy to follow and well made created by Peter Vogl on how to play a Chromatic Scale on guitar. The Chromatic Scale is a wonderful exercise with numerous benefits.  It will build strength in your hands, help to create calluses on your fingertips and also help to familiarize you with strings and frets of the guitar.

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How to Practice Guitar Effectively

By Robert Renman

An Effective Guitar Practice Schedule
Feel free to practice these things in any order, but always do #1 first, the warm up. You also don’t have to do them all in one sitting either. You can do a few at one practice session, and next time you sit down to practice, you do the other items in the list you didn’t do the first time, etc. Also, feel free to change the number of minutes for each to suit your own needs. Maybe you want to practice for 2 hours; maybe just 30 minutes – it is completely up to you. You can view this schedule as a general blueprint, which you can modify as you like. 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.

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Learn Guitar Scales – The 7 Biggest Reasons You Have To Learn Guitar Scales

Guitar Scales Get You Ready For Playing

Playing to warm up before you start playing some real songs works really well. They are a great way to switch your brain into a sort of guitar playing mode and get your fingers stretched and ready.

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What Guitar Scales Should You Study?

By Mike P Hayes

What are scales? What should you study? If you are new to the guitar, and new to music, you are probably not even quite sure exactly what a scale actually is, which certainly adds to the aura of mystery that begins to surround the subject.

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Basic Positioning Of The Fingers For Guitar Notes

By Kevin Sinclair

You may find it frustrating when attempting to play chords and notes for the first time. When you are not accustomed to using your hands and fingers in this way, it will of course, take a while to adjust, and to build up the correct muscles and increase the suppleness in your hands and fingers. It is possible for your hands and fingers to feel a little stiff after your first practice session, especially if your first session was rather lengthy. However, it is imperative that you do not allow this to prevent you from continuing. Your fingers will become strong and agile in no time at all to enable you to tackle the most difficult riffs and licks.

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