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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.

Easy Songs For The Guitar

Posted on | June 5, 2008 |

If you want to learn to play the guitar you will need some easy songs to work on. The job of finding songs could be a bit tricky if you are not clear about what you want to play. Hopefully this article will be some help in choosing your songs. We need to look at the question of why you want to play the guitar - why is the idea of playing songs on the guitar attractive to you? This is the first step in choosing which songs to learn. There are certain advantages in beginning your guitar playing with easy songs, and we will take a look at those as well so you can be clear on what you want to work on with your guitar and why.

No matter how you explain it to yourself, the basic reason behind your need to play the guitar is self expression. You might close your eyes and imagine yourself impressing a whole lot of people with your talent or you might feel that you have something important to say. Either way, the bottom line is something in you wants to get out. To enable this self expression you must think about which songs you like. Not about whether they are easy or not, just if you like them. Next think about communicating with your audience. The songs you play on the guitar are just part of the bridge between you and the people listening to you. If you like introspective love songs, then look for easy love songs. Do not learn gospel music or rock songs just because they appear technically easier. Trust me, you will find easy songs in your genre.

The search for easy guitar songs will reveal to you an amazing fact. You do not have to learn a multitude of chords to learn to play a range of songs. The basic chords you learn will be fairly easy to play, and after a few weeks of practice you will find your self-confidence growing. At this stage of your guitar playing career you should remind yourself each day to begin fresh, as though you had not spent hours practicing the day before. Let your fingers take their own time to find the chord shapes as they warm up.

Once you have learned some easy songs you will find that more advanced music is no longer a mystery to you. This is the stage where you make your repertoire of songs your own property. The song was composed by someone you do not know but you are expressing yourself through their work. New instrumental and vocal possibilities will present themselves the more you play and the more you practice.

So the first step is get a fairly solid idea of the kind of song that fits you best, and do a search on the internet for some song titles. If your first searches give you versions of a song that look a bit advanced for you, include words like “easy tabs” or “easy arrangement” in your search. It will not take long for you to collect some easy songs to start you off as a guitar player.


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