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With all the excitement generated by thinking about signing up for guitar lessons it is easy to become bedazzled with the array of guitar lessons advertised online and in the real world. You might feel that you just want to sign up for your guitar lessons, go to sleep and wake up being able to play the guitar. Well, it is not quite as easy as that. Having to decide which guitar lessons suit your needs best takes a little contemplation. Take a good look at what is available to you in the realm of guitar lessons.

First, there is one-on-one lessons. You have a guitar player sitting in front of you trying to find some way to help you become a guitar player. This guitar teacher will charge you by the hour or the term, and give you some material to learn, and maybe some sharing of personal experience mixed with an effort to pass on some of the wisdom he has gained over his years playing music. This guitar teacher is engaged in teaching to put money in his pocket. He wants to teach the largest number of students that he can handle with the least trouble.

This kind of guitar teacher used to be the only kind you could get, but now that guitar lessons can be packaged and transmitted over the internet, things are different. With online lessons you have some guy who knows something about the guitar who wants to get rich by marketing guitar lessons. He has a few thousand bucks at his disposal so he can put together some guitar lessons on video, back it up with some printed tabs and sheet music and sell it on the internet. Your online guitar lesson guy can afford to charge you much less than your local guitar teacher because he is not constrained by the number of students he can fit into his schedule - he can get thousands of people with guitar websites or blogs to sell his lessons for him.

Not only can you get a high quality set of guitar lesson videos but you will get some kind of feedback system where you can ask questions or make suggestions to your teacher and get a reply back by email or video. On top of that when you are browsing online guitar lesson packages, you will be seeing guitar teachers picked from anywhere in the world for their enthusiasm and ability, not for their location.

Okay, now that I have inadvertently given away my prejudice towards online guitar lessons, let us talk about specialization. You can get acoustic guitar lessons which will lean more towards acoustic guitar stuff like strumming patterns, open tunings and muting. Electric guitar lessons teach all that stuff too but with different emphasis plus lessons on note bending, sliding and fret board tapping.

After looking at the variety of guitar lesson choices available to the novice guitarist I hope that I have not left you more confused than ever. My final suggestion is when in doubt about which is the best guitar lesson package just jump in and go for whichever appeals to you and remember that you get a money back guarantee.

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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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