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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 Play Double-Stops On Guitar

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A double-stop is when you play two notes at the same time. Some people might say that’s a chord but a lot of guitar players only consider a chord to be more than two notes, so we call two notes a double-stop. The basic effect of playing double-stops is of harmonizing with your solo playing. This technique was used by many lead guitarists in bands of the fifties and sixties. Chuck Berry was a champion of double-stop playing.

One way of playing a double stop is to play two adjacent strings at the same time. Another way is to play two strings that are not next to each other by strumming with your plectrum and muting the string in the middle. Or you can put your pick between your teeth and pluck the two strings you want to play.

Here is a C major scale played up the fretboard on the first and second strings using double-stops:

e–0–1–3–5–7—8–10–12—————–|

B–1–3–5–6–8–10–12–13—————–|

G——————————————–|

D——————————————–|

A——————————————–|

E——————————————–|

And here is the same scale played in the open position across the fretboard:

e———————–0———————|

B————–0–1–3–1———————|

G——–0–2–0–2–4————————|

D–2–3–2–3———————————|

A–3–5—————————————|

E———————————————|

Here is a video showing you how to play double-stops:

This lesson on Guitar Diads or Double Stops has some tabs for double-stop exercises.


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