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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.

Classical Electric Guitars

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Is there such a thing as a classical electric guitar? Has the contemporary music of the twenty-first century made a place for a nylon string guitar with amplification and distortion? Some guitar players are attracted to the sound of the nylon string guitar but find the wider fretboard difficult to come to terms with. So the question is, where do I find a nylon string guitar with a nec, more like that of an electric guitar or a steel string acoustic?

There have been such guitars produced, such as the Epiphone Chet Atkins Classical-Nylon Acoustic-Electric Guitar. Also the Epiphone Classic SST 1.75 is a nice acoustic-electric with mahogany body and a spruce top. Its main features are a lack of feedback when amplified and a very natural sounding acoustic tone.

Finger style guitar players often have trouble with steel strings so the nylon string classical guitars give them the freedom to use classical or flamenco style techniques with the amplification of an electric guitar. But guitarists who want to play classical music on an amplified guitar are often dissatisfied with the kind of tonal response they get from a classical electric guitar.

The main objection to playing classical music on an electric guitar is the need to change the settings on an electric guitar to get variations in tone. Classical electric guitars do actually have a reasonable range of tones available for playing classical guitar music but it takes time and practice to be able to release the tonal possibilities in an electric guitar.

Of course any guitarist appreciates the flexibility a classical electric guitar offers for playing in the upper register. Playing really high notes is an art form in itself if you are just going to play an acoustic classical guitar. Some classical compositions have been transposed from their original key in order to make them playable on the guitar. A guitar with a cutaway allows a guitarist to play these pieces in their original key if he wants to.

Some guitar players enjoy the possibilities of playing an amplified nylon string guitar. A little overdrive on an acoustic guitar can be a joy to hear. Not to mention that the nylon string guitar can sound great with some electronic effects. It’s possible to imagine that the classical electric guitar could be a totally new instrument in much the same way as the electric bass guitar is in a world of its own compared to the string bass.

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