Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

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As a guitar player you have probably trawled the internet looking for guitar lessons. Whether or not you want to learn to play guitar for free, your vision probably involved learning songs form tabs as well as getting as much theory and technique exercises you can handle.

Ten years ago a guy named Jon Broderick went looking for websites featuring high quality guitar lessons and, the legend goes, he had so little success, he went and made his own. The outcome was Guitar Tricks, another site that gives you access to their lessons in return for a monthly subscription. Not unlike Jamplay, but Guitar Tricks has been collecting guitar lessons for ten years, plus they have a collection of twenty-four free guitar lessons that you can try. Your free lessons are of the same quality as the lessons you get with your monthly subscription, taught by the same teachers who conduct the lessons for subscribers to Guitar Tricks.

These days four-hundred thousand guitarists take advantage of Guitar Tricks' lessons each month. And no wonder, because there are lessons in any genre you could name - acoustic, rock, metal, country, classical, jazz . . . and you can take lessons in special areas like chords, sound effects, harmonics, bottleneck, popping and guitar tricks. If you are not clear on whether your favorite guitar style has a name, you can simply request lessons based on the music of particular guitar players like Chet Atkins, Duane Allman, Stanley Jordan, Andres Segovia or Jimmy Page.

Your membership of Guitar Tricks gets you full access to a buttload of tutorials, sheet music, video lessons and backing tracks. Not only do you get the benefit of the Guitar Tricks guys' years of archiving guitar lessons but their content is updated every day.

One resource for beginner guitar players I'm always recommending is the collective expertise that you can find in guitar forums. Guitar Tricks has a forum that holds the records of questions and answers between thousands of guitarists. Would you believe there's over two-hundred thousand posts? And not only that, you can also have feedback from the Guitar Tricks teachers on any nagging question your brain can formulate.

A New Guitar Practice And Learning Tool

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The Guitarbud is the newest gadget for the guitarist who believes in playing ALL the time. The Guitarbud is a six foot long cable that you plug into your guitar and iPod Touch or iPhone. You can record what you are playing OR jam with the music on the iPod. The Guitarbud is made by Paul Reed Smith Guitars.

Here is the official list of features:

Plug your guitar, bass, or keyboard directly into your iPhone/iPod Touch along with headphones (sold separately)

Works with Voice Memos, StompVox, 4-track, Guitar Toolkit, iStrobosoft, and many others (trademarks are the property of their respective owners)

Basically replaces your iPhone’s built in mic with the direct output of your guitar

Guitar: 1/4″ plug, mono (male)

Headphone: 1/8″ stereo mini-jack (female)

Phone: 1/8″ 4-conductor iPhone pin-out

Cable length: 6′

Cable color: black

Interface Requirements: iPhone OS 3.0 or later and iPod touch 2nd Gen OS 3.0
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To bring the message home, here is the video:

The Gibson Learn & Master Guitar iPhone App

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Gibson Guitars has brought out a new iPhone app that includes a guitar tuner, metronome, chord chart, and sample lessons from the Learn & Master Guitar course, the most comprehensive guitar instructional series on the market, to provide you with a must-have application for any guitar player. This application provides you with essential tools to help you become a better guitar player as well as free full length lessons from Learn & Master Guitar.
Gibson Guitars is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. The Gibson Les Paul guitar is the best selling guitar of all time and bears the name of the late, great Les Paul.
The app features a professional quality Chromatic Tuner that will allow you to tune any instrument using the iPhone microphone (or iPod Touch with microphone attachment). It also has alternate tuning settings so you can quickly and easily tune your guitar to various alternate tunings, including Open G, Low C, Drop D, Eb and others. The Standard Mode Tuner allows you to tune each string to a sample tone. You also get an accurate metronome with multiple time signatures, visual and audio options, and a set-your-own tempo tap pad. But wait, there’s more: a Chord Library with a sample of the essential chords for every player, plus free full length video lessons from the Learn & Master Guitar course. Watch as instructor Steve Krenz gets you started on your way to mastering the guitar.

Here’s a link to the Gibson Learn And Master Guitar iPhone App.

Holding The Guitar Pick

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The question in the minds of many people learning how to play the guitar is how to hold the pick. We hear there are “correct” ways to hold the pick, like putting it between the thumb and the curled up index finger. But does it make more sense to strike a balance between correctness and comfort?

First of all lots of great guitar players depart drastically from the standard way of holding the plectrum. Your hand and arm should be relaxed and you need to have the freedom to place your attention on getting the tone you want from your guitar.

If you have a guitar teacher, you can ask him to watch you play and correct your pick holding if need be. What’s most likely to happen as you gain some experience as a guitar player is that you will adjust the way you hold the plectrum as you get an understanding of how you as an individual want to play.

Here is a detailed video tutorial on how to hold the pick from English guitar teacher, Richard Deyn:

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