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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.

Free Guitar Lessons At TheGuitarLesson.com

Posted on | November 23, 2009 | No Comments


I’ve just finished checking out a very impressive site which will give your guitar learning a boost. theguitarlesson.com not only features a range of free guitar lessons but also has a selection of jamtracks you can play along with. In the guitar theory section you can teach yourself the basics of arpeggios, barre chords and chord progressions and there is a complete free course for beginner guitar players, but the song lessons section is where this site shines. theguitarlesson.com has paid membership options which get you access to all of the song lessons.
The songs have video and tab components plus jamtracks and background info on each song and the challenges contained in the lesson. There are samples of the lessons so you can see what you are getting for your membership before you go ahead and join.


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Music Theory For Guitar - Should I Bother?

Posted on | November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment


If you already know how to play guitar but you play mostly by ear or with the help of tabs, you might be wondering if there is any advantage to learning music theory. Many guitarists who think about learning theory just want to be more complete, rounded musicians but an experienced player without theory will know that the bottom line in what is musical is what sounds good.

Essential, music theory is a method of communication. Musicians use musical notation and theory to pass ideas from one person to another. An experienced guitar player learning musical theory for the first time will probably see endless possibilities branching out from the musical ideas and technique he already has as he fits his knowledge into the wider context of music.

When you are learning a new piece of music, knowledge of theory will give you more choices in the matter of where to play on the fretboard, whether to use barre chords or open chords and how to put harmonies together. Knowing music theory will give you a framework which might inspire you to try ideas that your playing experience alone might not have presented you with.

Here is a video lesson on music theory from Allen ‘ROBOT’ Van Wert of MusicHopper.com


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Learn To Play Guitar Songs

Posted on | November 18, 2009 | No Comments


There are two reasons you need to give some thought the songs you are going to learn to play on your guitar. When you are just beginning to learn how to play guitar you will need to learn songs that help you with your technique. Your repertoire of guitar songs should give you opportunities to learn the basic chords and work on changing from one to the other.

Learning to play a number of songs is a great way to lift your level of guitar playing. The basic idea is to learn one song well so that you can play it without rushing but don’t spend weeks and months on it. Learn when to move on. There is a fear that learner guitarists feel that if they stop practising a song they will forget it. The reality is that if you learn a variety of songs and revise them once in a while, your overall guitar playing skills will be much better than the guitar student who won’t move on until he knows a song “perfectly”. Really, when you are just learning guitar, you will not do anything perfectly until you have had some broad experience at playing.

When you start on a new song, it’s a good idea to pick one that helps you learn a new chord or technique, like learning one of the basic barre chord shapes. You can get together a list of songs you want to learn whenever you have a minute to go on the internet and search through the tab archives.

The second thing you need to have in mind when you are getting together a list of guitar songs is playing in public. You can play your songs at local venues like coffeehouses. You will probably need enough songs to fill about ninety minutes. If you think that learning so many songs might take an overly long time, you could probably get away with setting up a music stand in most venues and playing from sheet music.

This video will help you get started on learning simple guitar songs:


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