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Guitar Tricks - The Learning Guitar Player's Resource

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.
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.
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.

Beginner Guitar Tips

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Sometimes beginners on the guitar become frustrated at what they perceive to be a lack of progress and wonder if the problem lies with them personally or their choice of guitar. Start out with the best quality guitar you can afford. If you sacrifice quality for economy you may not stay with your guitar tuition. This sometimes happens with parents who decide to pay for guitar lessons for their child but skimp on the actual instrument. The logic behind this is that maybe the child won’t stay with the lessons so you do not want to lose too much money in buying the guitar.

Beginner guitar players often wonder whether the guitar is harder to learn compared to say, the piano. Stringed instruments in general could be considered to be a little harder to learn than a keyboard instrument. Although learning chords on the piano involves learning to use your hands in a new way, the added discipline of applying the correct pressure on the strings adds to the difficulty of learning to play the guitar. But one instrument is harder to play than another only at the very beginning of musical training. Once you get through the first obstacle of extracting simple tunes and chords from the guitar, yourvprogress will be much faster and you will be able to enjoy the advantages the guitar has over other instruments.

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