Category: Beginner Acoustic Guitar

Learn how to play the song “The Only Exception “ by Paramore with this free beginner guitar lesson. This song was written by the American rock Band Paramore from Tennessee, formed back in 2004. It was released as a single off of their 2009 album Brand New Eyes.  It was written by Hayley Williams, Josh Farro and...

Learn how to play the Em13 chord with this free guitar lesson. The Em13 Chord is found by locating the 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11 and 13 positions of the E Major Scale: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, and D#. The 11th position is normally omitted as indicated in the chord diagram below....

Here is a great lesson from the folks over at Guitar Tricks that teaches you how to take advantage of the full sound that the acoustic guitar is capable of producing. Even an absolute beginner will be able to take advantage of this guitar playing technique because it uses simple open chord shapes that you...

The D Minor 6 Chord (also known as Dm6, D Minor 6th) is found by locating the 1, b3, 5 and 6 steps of the  D Major Scale: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, or the notes D, F, A and B.  The “b3” symbol translates to “Flattened 3rd” , which means we simply lower the 3rd...

Learn how to play the E13 guitar chord with this free beginner guitar chord lesson. The E13 Guitar Chord is a dark and dreamy sounding chord and one of my favorites. Luckily, it is also fairly easy to play. The E13 Chord is found by locating the 1, 3 , 5, b7, 9, 11 and...

Learn How To Play “Marry You” by Bruno Mars Learn how to play the song “Marry You” by Bruno Mars with this free guitar tutorial.   This song is from Bruno’s debut album “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”.  Learn more over at Wikipedia. Marty teaches two versions of this song on acoustic guitar, in the video lesson...

Below is a video lesson from the popular home study course from Legacy Learning Systems called “Gibson’s Learn and Master Guitar”. In the following video lesson, Steve Krenz demonstrates how to play two basic beginner guitar chords : the C Major and G7 chords. Steve first demonstrates how to play each chord and then talks...

Learn how to play the song “Rolling In the Deep” by Adele with this free guitar lesson. This song is off Adele’s second album 21. “Rolling in the Deep” was written by Adele and Paul Epworth. This song made it to number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Its her second song to make...

Below is an excellent video introduction guide that will teach you how to use a thumb pick for guitar. A thumb pick is a kind of finger pick that attaches to your thumb obviously and is most commonly used with bluegrass style guitar playing.  Most of the thumb picks you will find today are made...

Learn how to play the song “Hey, Soul Sister “ by Train with this easy acoustic guitar lesson.  This song was written by Patrick Monahan, Amund Bjorklund, and Espen Lind.   It is off the bands fifth album, “Save Me, San Francisco”. This song made it to number three on the Bilboard Hot 100 charts...