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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 Song Sheet Music

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If you want to learn how to play the guitar you will need to consider how you should go about learning your first guitar song – sheet music or tab. Standard musical notation which we generally call “sheet music”, and guitar tablature, or “tabs”, are the two languages used to write guitar songs and instrumentals.

Guitar tabs are a quick way of learning where to put your fingers in order to play a song or finger a chord. Guitar song sheet music is more comprehensive language that not only tells you where to put your fingers but also where the notes you are playing fit into the full range of notes available on the guitar plus the time signature of the piece.

The understanding of a guitar song that you gain from sheet music allows you to get inside the music and improve on the existing arrangement, add instrumental solos or make the song fit more into your personal style. If you learn from tabs it will take many run-throughs of the song to reach the same intimate understanding that one sight-reading will give an experienced sheet music reader.

Sheet music for guitar songs and instrumental pieces takes more time to learn but the time used is an investment in your future as a guitar player. While guitar tab will give you the basic information needed to play a song in a short space of time, the ability to read sheet music gives you much more of an edge. If you research the question of how to learn your guitar song – sheet music or tab, you will find many guitarists will tell you stories of missing out on work with bands because they can’t read sheet music.

The thing with sheet music for guitar songs is that it is very confronting for people when they are considering learning to read it. The beginner guitar player wants to start playing. To show their friends how well they can play. It is natural for a novice to consider the short route of learning to read guitar tabs over the unknown territory of learning what the little black dots mean and the musical theory that goes along with it.

Learning to read guitar song sheet music can be seen as a series of steps. First, there’s understanding that there are only seven notes to learn. Next, you learn the six notes found on the open strings of the guitar. Once you have learnt these bits of info plus the C major scale in the first position, only about a week will have gone by and you will be on your way to a full understanding of guitar music.

After a year as a sheet music reading guitar player you will have an enormous advantage over a guitarist who started at the same time as you but who chose to only learn tabs and chord charts.

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