Category: Free Lessons

So you have finally decided to learn to play guitar. Have you decided to learn online or are you going for face to face lessons? Your average guitar teacher will wind up costing you about eighty to one hundred dollars every month. That is just for one lesson per week. On the other hand a nifty set of videos cannot give you personal advice based on the observation of your playing by a seasoned professional guitar player.

A live guitar teacher might offer you the chance to take a free lesson to help you decide whether to commit yourself to a course of lessons. You could sit down with your teacher during your free lesson and tell him how you want to progress with the guitar. He can tell you if your goals are realistic or if you need to rethink your dreams of the future. This will let you get an idea of how committed your teacher is to turning students into guitar players. A good guitar teacher will be listen to your plans for your guitar playing and his teaching methods and advice will be tailored to your specific needs. He can watch you play and see where you are going wrong and what you need to do to fix it.

If you lead a busy life it might not be practical for you to get to a guitar teacher once a week and devote half an hour, an hour or more per day to practicing the guitar as well as performing your professional and family duties. If you are one of these busy people the prospect of saving money on guitar tuition fees and transport fares or fuel costs you might want to think seriously about learning guitar online. If you decide to go for an online course then how do you know which one to choose?

The internet has archives of guitar tabs, sites containing free lessons, thousands of free videos and countless opportunities for us to watch videos of the best guitarists in the world, past or present, dead or alive. There are many forums with guys who have been playing the guitar for many years waiting for a chance to pass on their expertise and love of guitar playing to beginners. If you save a few of these guitar forums to your bookmarks in your browser you can visit a few every day and copy and paste any advice or tabs that you find useful.

There are guitar lesson websites that have the lessons set out in the correct sequence for a beginner guitar player’s progress. The formulators of these guitar courses are experienced guitar players who have extensive experience teaching the guitar and playing in bands. These online lessons are great for people who need a basic understanding of the guitar, how to hold it and play chords for easy songs. Free online guitar lessons get these people playing the guitar fast.

Here is a great way to make use of free guitar tools and tabs you find on the internet. You could organize your basic tools into groups like tabs, chord charts, songs, scales, articles and tools such as online guitar tuners. You create some folders on your computer for each of these groups so that you can get to your learning material easily during your guitar practice time.

Online guitar lessons also go a long way towards saving your dignity as well as your money. You can work quietly in your own room at any difficulties or misunderstanding about guitar playing without exposing your shortcomings to another person. You can do this at your own pace, seeking more advice from forums to help you with your problems. If you have only a little time to spend on guitar practice online lessons will accommodate you, and if you fin that you have some extra spend you will always find something new and interesting to learn.

Some free guitar lessons from Guitar Player University
“. . . this site was created to save you time, money and a whole lot of aggravation trying to improve your guitar playing. Unlike most guitar lesson sites, or guitar tab sites, we guarantee that if you watch our free guitar classes, you will be a better player by the time you leave this site.”
Guitar Player University

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“This lesson shows you a simple guitar warm up exercise that gently builds strength, extension and independent control of your fretting fingers. The beauty of this warm up is that you can focus entirely on your finger movements instead of thinking about scale patterns or chord positions.
If you are thinking about scales or chords you will focus less attention on your finger placement. This exercise is so simple you can give all your attention to good finger placement and individual finger movement.
Keep this in mind as you perform the exercise. Its primary purpose is to develop good finger placement so focus on that. Make sure you press the strings with the finger tips and not with their fleshy pads.”
Guitar Warm Up

On the subject of paid guitar courses, Elmore Music have just finished making a brand new acoustic guitar course. They’ve spent the last three months putting it together and it’s jam packed with video clips, audio files and easy step by step lessons that will have you playing the acoustic guitar in no time. So if you’ve always wanted to learn to play the acoustic guitar … or brush up on your skills . . . check it out here.

Guitar Player World is a new free guitar lessons site for guitar newbies and advanced students. It features guitar lessons that are made exclusively for beginner guitarists. Novice guitar players are advised to take the lessons at their own pace, not moving on until you have understood the lesson you are working on. guitarplayerworld.com

If you want to keep up with what is happening in the world of guitar playing there are a couple of places on the web you need to know about. One is Harmony Central Guitar News And Resources, which for your convenience I have placed their feed here. Another is amplifi3r.com which squeezes the major news sources for items of interest to guitar players.

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