Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

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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.



You want to learn the guitar – what do you need?

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You need a little physical equipment, like a guitar of some sort and some strings.

If the electric guitar sound floats your boat, you’ll need a bunch of more or less heavy equipment.
An important element of your guitar career is time. As much as you can find. If you think guitar virtuosos are born, you are wrong! All the greats of rock, classical and flamenco guitar plus any fusion style in between are quite open about the fact that for at least a few years they played as much as they could. Six, eight, ten, fifteen hours a day. No bull! This doesn’t mean you have to play all day and all night – just follow your need to make music.

Be kind to yourself.


In many households there are closets, and in those closets are guitars that have been put away after a brief love affair. For a short time someone has labored over a chord tutor or song book hoping that the music in their fingers will awaken, and they will amaze their friends and get lots of girls with their phenomenal guitar wizardry.


There’s nothing wrong with having an ego, wanting to be better than the next guy. It can be a genuine driving force towards success, but as they say, it’s “about the music”.
Many people do persevere with their efforts and are rewarded, not by social advantages, but by the unique relationship they develop with their guitar and their music. Yeah, unique. Music may be dominated by trends, but a musician sitting down to play each day is, whether they are aware of it or not, looking for a way to express their uniqueness.


If you’re starting out in music, you’ll get advice about how essential it is to read music or how you should get exposure to a wide range of musical styles, but in the end you’ll follow your own path. Life really is too short to do otherwise. If you want to go the “Bach to Beatles” route, and your prepared to put in long hours of practice, fine. If after a year’s fooling with the guitar, you’re happy just to play the Peter Gunn theme and Smoke On The Water, who are we to judge?


The question on the lips of anybody just starting out in any field is “Is this gonna take long?” Well the answer is, “all your life”. It’s a cliche, but learning any skill IS a journey, where you have to keep stopping and checking if you’re where you want to be. Making your guitar playing a lifelong learning curve is its own reward. Ad of course, you do get lotsa girls!

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