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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.

How To Find Free Guitar Lessons On Google And YouTube

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If you want to learn how to play a guitar for free, you will find the internet is your biggest source of free guitar lessons. To make the best use of the net you will need to know how to search without wasting too much time.

First, make a folder in your bookmarks to keep your guitar lesson links in. You are certain to find some sites that you need to visit more than once, so keep the links all in one place and just separate them into folders like “Videos”, “Theory”, “Fingerstyle”, “Tabs” or however you prefer to classify the elements of your guitar learning. You could make one folder for video lessons and subfolders for genres if you are learning to play more than one guitar style.

When you are searching for guitar lessons or information on how to play guitar, be as specific as possible. Many people phrase their internet searches in the form of questions like, “how can I learn to play guitar for free?” If you use this form of searching you will get results containing the words “learn”, “play”, “guitar” and “free”. Words like “to”, “I”, “for”, “and” are commonly used words that are not included in search results.

A more effective way to search is to ask yourself what it is you want exactly. If you want free guitar lessons, you type the phrase into Google and you get millions of pages that contain the words “free”, “guitar” and “lessons”. The first few pages will contain results that are relevant to your search but as you progress down the page you might find pages that contain the words but do not have anything to do with what you are looking for. For instance, you could find a news report saying, “a flock of zebras escaped from the zoo today so that they could run free, play the guitar and take surfing lessons“.

To get more focused results you can type the same phrase into the Google search box but inside quotation marks: “free guitar lessons”. This will give you a bunch of pages that actually contain the phrase you are looking for.

Also, when you are using Google to search, take a look at the bottom of the page of search results. You will find a list of search terms that are related to the term you typed in. These will contain more useful results. And don’t forget to use the “more” link at the top of the search page. This will give you blogs and group discussions to search through. Here is an example of a guitar lessons blog called Free Beginners Guitar Lessons

YouTube is a great source of free guitar lessons. There are amateur guitarists showing what they have learnt for the benefit of beginners and there are guitar teachers using free video guitar lessons as an intro to their paid guitar lessons.

The same principle applies to YouTube as for Google: you get different results if you type “guitar lessons” from what you get if you type guitar lessons without quotes. The search box at YouTube actually tries to help you with what you are looking for by dropping down a list of popular searches that contain the words you are typing in. So, if I type in “guitar lessons” a list of phrases like, “guitar lessons for beginners” and “guitar lessons acoustic” will drop down for me to select them if they are closer to what I am looking for.


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2 Responses to “How To Find Free Guitar Lessons On Google And YouTube”

  1. Beginner Guitar Guru
    November 5th, 2009 @ 1:44 pm

    Hey man, gr8 article, I think the internet has a bunch of information on guitar playing and how to learn at least some basic stuff for free. Just to add on your suggestions above, one thing that has taught me to understand some of the videos on youtube is to understand chord progressions. One approach I think works pretty well when learning to play guitar is to learn how to read guitar tabs.

    Happy Playing

    Danny

  2. Marc-A Seguin
    December 15th, 2009 @ 2:36 am

    Great article. It’s true that there is a lot to learn for absolutely free on the web.

    Marc-A

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