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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.



Acoustic Beginner Guitars

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Choosing acoustic beginner guitars is a major task for people new to guitar playing. One of the common issues novice acoustic guitar players have is the question of whether what they see as lack of progress is a natural part of learning to play the guitar, a fault with the way they play or there is something wrong with their new guitar. So let’s have a look at some matters you need to consider as a beginner guitar buyer.

When you go looking for your first acoustic guitar let the brands you see be a rough guide only. Go to as many music stores as possible and try out as many guitars as possible. If you are a total raw beginner, take a guitar playing friend with you and get them to play the guitars and pass on their opinion to you.

Although you should buy the best guitar your budget can stretch to, it is a good idea not to spend too much money on your very first acoustic beginner guitar. At least, not until you have had about six months of practice. Once you have had some experience of what it’s like to learn to change chords, and have seen whether or not you can apply yourself to a daily practice routine, then you can think about spending money on a better quality acoustic guitar.

There is a school of thought amongst acoustic guitar players that because nylon strings are kinder to your hands when you first start playing, it is better to buy a nylon string guitar first and switch to a steel string, if that is what you prefer, after your finger tips have grown callouses. It is true that steel strings can slice your fingers and it takes some time away from the guitar to let them heal, but at the same time, if you are faced with the choice between a decent steel string guitar and an unplayable piece of crap with nylon strings, then take the steel string, and just be careful not to drag your left hand fingers along the strings.

Without going into too much detail about the pros and cons of various brands and model, here’s a few decent guitars that you could look out for at your local music store or on ebay: Takamine, Epiphone, Alvarez, Yamaha, Ibanez. These are all good quality guitars that will last you through your initial stage as a beginner guitar player plus a few years neglected under the bed. Even though you can buy good guitars online, they could suffer from being shipped from one country to another, plus buying from a store or through local classifieds means you can see what you are buying.

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