Year: 2009

Great video from Peter Vogl of  FreeGuitarVideos.com.   In this video, Peter demonstrates some popular Bluegrass Guitar Strumming Patterns, which are excellent building blocks for learning more complicated patterns. How to play Acoustic Bluegrass Guitar – Standard Bluegrass Progression Here is another great lesson from the folks over at Next Level Guitar.  In this video, Marty...

Is it possible to teach yourself how to play acoustic guitar? 20 years ago I would have said no, but since the advent of the Internet, anything is possible. There are so many fantastic online resources that will easily provide any beginner guitarist with all of the resources necessary to teach yourself how to play...

Guitar scales are one of the most effective practice exercises that you can do as a beginner acoustic guitar player. I know guitar scales can seem a bit boring, especially when you are playing them every day, but hang in there. Guitar scales build strength, speed and dexterity. They will familiarize you with the guitar...

Learn To Play “Sitting Waiting Wishing” By Jack Johnson Learn how to play “Sitting Waiting Wishing” by Jack Johnson with this free guitar lesson. This song is from the album “In Between Dreams” released back in 2005. This song was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Learn more over...

Fingerpicking, also known as Finger Style Guitar, is a style of guitar playing where you play the strings directly with your finger tips, finger nails, or pics attached to your fingers.  This is different than the Flatpicking style of guitar where you use a flatpick held in your strumming hand to play the strings. Fingerpicking...

Looking for quality acoustic slide guitar lessons?  The following post contains 10 awesome slide guitar lessons that were hand picked from Youtube and gathered here for your convenience.  Learning how to play slide guitar is challenging in the beginning, but as with anything else, practice will make perfect.  Just be persistent and do not give...

So you want to learn how to play the blues on your acoustic guitar? On this page you will find a collection of excellent acoustic blues guitar lessons that I gathered from YouTube from the folks over at Next Level Guitar. I can’t promise you will become the next B.B King or Stevie Ray Vaughn...

Learn how to play Peaceful Easy Feeling by The Eagles with this free guitar lesson. This song was written by Jack Tempchin and recorded by The Eagles and is from their debut album Eagles released in 1972. This is by far one of the Eagles most popular songs, but this particular version is a bit...

Learn how to play “Let it Be” by The Beatles with this free guitar lesson. This song was released in 1970 as a single and as the title track from the album of the same name, “Let It Be”. It was written by Paul MacCartney.  This song reached number 1 in a host of different...

The E Minor Chord (also known as Em) is found by locating the 1, b3 and 5 steps of the  E Major Scale: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, and D#, or the notes E, G and B.  The “b3” symbol translates to “Flattened 3rd” , which means we simply lower the 3rd step of the E...