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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 Use A Metronome

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You need to get into the habit of practicing with a metronome. There’s a few things you need to get used to when you learn to play a guitar – keeping your instrument tuned, setting a practice schedule, getting used to playing through the boredom – learning how to use a metronome is one of these things. Once you get it together to practice every day with a tuned guitar, using a metronome it will all become second nature.

Usually you start with the metronome on a slow speed, playing something that does not stress you too much. Even one note repeated is better than nothing, just to get you used to it. Do not make the metronome speed too low because sometimes it’s easier to play using a moderately low speed instead of a dead slow speed.

You can speed up the metronome when you start to feel comfortable with it, and you can also reset it so that it sounds on beats number two and four. However you do it, the aim is to get you playing your music in time but not building up tension in your body trying to keep up with the metronome on too high a speed. When you learn some chords your metronome will be really handy in learning to change chords smoothly.

If you take the trouble to establish the basic routine of daily practice with a metronome and keeping your guitar tuned, you will be setting yourself up for much faster progress than if you remain your old, undisciplined self.

This video features the magnificent Justin Sandercoe explaining how to use a metronome:


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