Category: Beginner Acoustic Guitar

How to Spice Up Those Beginner Chords

Here is a great beginner acoustic guitar lesson that will teach you how to spice up and add some more color to those beginner guitar chords that you have been working so hard to learn. The great thing about this lesson is that your fingers will not have to move much or travel very far....

Gadd4 Guitar Chord

Learn how to play the beginner guitar chord, Gadd4, with this free tutorial. The Gadd4 Guitar Chord is found in the G Major Scale: G A B C D E F# G. It is made up of the 1, 3, 4 and 5 of this scale. Meaning the notes G, B,C, and D. This is  a very easy chord...

How to Use a Partial Capo – Video Lesson

Here is a great lesson from Lisa McCormick with GuitarTricks.Com on how to use a partial capo. If you aren’t familiar with guitar capos yet, they are simple little tools that you clamp onto your guitar, across the strings, that change the key. With a normal 6 string capo, you are limited, because you have...

The F7 Guitar Chord The Easy Way

If you are having difficulty playing the F7 guitar chord (a.k.a, F Dominant 7,f dominant 7th ,f 7th) then you are in luck.  Today you will learn how to play several different, easy  F7 guitar chord shapes. Typically, the F7 guitar chord is played as a barre chord on the first fret. It can be very difficult to play any...

Aerosmith I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing Guitar Lesson

Learn how to play the hit song “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing “ by Aerosmith with this free  acoustic guitar lesson. Obviously, the original song is not played on Acoustic Guitar. It’s a rock ballad, but it sounds nice unplugged on acoustic guitar. This song appeared on the soundtrack of the movie Armageddon....

Beginners Guide to Mastering Barre Chords

Image via Wikipedia One of the most difficult parts of learning how to play guitar are those dreaded barre chords!  They are such a huge stumbling block for beginners.  You’ve got all your easy basic chords down, you are playing lots of cool songs, and then Bam!  Someone decides to teach a song that has...

Alternating Bass Fingerstyle Guitar Technique For Beginners

In this free video guitar lesson from Jamplay.com, Instructor Orville Johnson teaches the alternating bass style of picking for acoustic guitar, using a popular song called Railroad Bill. As Orville points out in the video lesson below, the alternating bass technique is similar to the way someone plays piano. With piano, a pianist plays the...

Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb Guitar Lesson

Download the Easy Acoustic Songs Course from GuitarJamz!Learn how to play the song Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd with this free guitar lesson.   This is one of Pink Floyd’s most popular songs. Its especially well known for its amazing guitar solo.  Comfortably Numb is from the 1979 album The Wall , undoubtedly one of...

How Major Guitar Scales are Made

Guitar scales are extremely important exercises that should not be overlooked if you are serious about becoming a good guitar player. There are multiple benefits to learning, practicing and understanding guitar scales. Guitar scales help increase increase your speed and strength. They can improve your dexterity and precision. They can help you to familiarize yourself...

20 Chord Progressions in the Key of C Major

Here are 20 chord progressions in the key of C Major. This is going to be great practice for you beginners and help you with some of those tricky chord changes. These are all fairly easy beginner guitar chords that you should already be familiar with.  If not, I provided links to lessons on how...