Archive for: February 2008

Over 65 free finger-picking guitar lessons with movies, an online tuner, barre chords for beginners and beyond - just a small selection of the goodies available to beginner guitarists at Guitar For Beginners Forum. If you’re really serious about learning to play a guitar go over and register at this forum and browse the free guitar resources.

Here’s a quote from one of their lessons:
“. . . so long as you’re not brand spanking new to playing guitar you should give these a try. The end goal in all of them is to make those fingers obey, and since the tab shows you exactly where and when they should go, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to learn these. It may take a long long time, but that is the nature of learning to play a musical instrument. I used to sit for days on end just learning one short passage.
The first lesson is Johann S Bach’s beautiful “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”. You may not recognize the verbose title, but I’m sure you’ll know the tune. It’s probably his most well known piece, and I’ve come up with a fairly simplified arrangement for it.

I did it in two parts:

Part I: http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18828
Part II: http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19012

The second lesson is a little Bluesey/Ragtimey ditty I came up the other day I called ‘Rainy Day Blues’. It’s got all kinds of things going on and will keep you busy for a while for sure.

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19220

They’re free, but you can for a modest fee download the high-resolution movie versions (which includes the animated virtual fretboard and half speed movie) and you also get the midi files, the mp3, the Guitar-Pro file, tab and notation, all in a very user friendly PDF format.”

Here’s the link again: Guitar For Beginners Forum.

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For fans of heavy metal guitar, Jamplay has the beginning portions of Iron Man by Black Sabbath for you to learn. According to Wikipedia, “In 2000, 30 years after the song was first released, it won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. “Iron Man” also won spot #310 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. “Iron Man” was awarded the #1 spot on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs in 2006.”
Here’s the free video guitar lesson on YouTube

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