Free guitar lessons

Today we feature a free book of guitar lessons billed as “all you need to start playing guitar”. Well, it certainly goes a long way towards filling that bill. I should mention up front that the free book is an introduction to a series of guitar lesson books that you can buy at the website, but there is no nagging and if the free lessons are anything to go by, they are probably worth the money. The free lessons are navigated by an index of lessons. You click on one of the free guitar lesson links and you are taken to a page you can read plus an mp3 for that lesson if you are comforted by the sound of someone reading to you.
The first two lessons serve as an Introduction To Guitar which simply starts off on the basics as if you came from another planet and did not know what a guitar is. The next two lessons show you how to play the guitar strings and show photographs of how to place your fingers on the fret board for a clear sound.
Next we get a basic explanation of open and bar guitar chords which leads onto a primer on how to read guitar music and where to find notes on the guitar.
After a quick introduction to guitar tab we are shown how to actually play chords. Now we get into the nitty gritty of guitar playing with introductions to alternating bass notes, arpeggios, plucking and your basic chord strumming with a pick.
The lesson on changing chords is particularly good but the significance of the detailed exposition will be lost on most beginners until they learn for themselves that there is no fast way to learn how to change guitar chords. The lessons on chords are capped off with an effective way to learn new chords which could probably benefit a guitarist of almost any level.
Get the free guitar lessons here.

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