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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.

Guitar Practice Techniques – How To Save Time

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Let’s look at things we should all be doing in our guitar practice time. This is regardless of whether we play acoustic or electric, pick or fingerstyle, whatever. You need a space where you can practice at any time of day or night. Your space should be free from noise that might distract you and it should be somewhere that you won’t disturb other people.

You need your guitar sitting on a stand, ready to play – not in a case that you need to drag out from under the bed and open and then put back again. This is all wasted time and effort. An alternative to a stand if you have an acoustic guitar is a piece of guitar string threaded through the headstock and hung on a picture hook on the wall.

You need a tuner. Your guitar should be in tune all the time, and when you are new, you need to practice tuning your guitar. It is part of learning. So if you have not bought a guitar tuner you should have your computer handy to your guitar practice space so you can make use of an online guitar tuner or one you have downloaded from the internet.

Same goes for a metronome. Have one on your computer or get one from a music store. Again, using the metronome is essential to practicing the guitar, and practicing using the metronome is a discipline in itself.

One thing that will hold you back in learning how to play guitar is neglecting these basic ideas on having your tools and your practice space ready. So if you recently bought your first guitar, instead of sitting down and practicing today, get your practice space ready with your guitar, tuner and metronome. It will make your life and your guitar learning more easy and enjoyable.

Here is an article from The Classical Guitar Blog on Goal Oriented Guitar Practice. Don’t be put off by the blog’s name – guitarists in any genre will benefit from these tips.

The video illustrates some guitar practice tips from betweenthelicks.com


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