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Guitar Tricks - The Learning Guitar Player's Resource

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.
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.
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.

Learn How To Play Guitar Solos

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Some songs would not be important if they didn’t have a great guitar solo or riff. As they are potentially so important to the impact of your songs, if you are going to play guitar solos you will need to have a feel for what you are doing, not as a guitar player and as a composer. Base your solo around the key the song is in. There are solos that departed from the song itself, but when you have enough experience to do that without making a fool of yourself, you will know.

You should know how to play scales. This means you alternate picking, string skipping and economy picking should be to a stage where you have a degree of confidence and a clean technique. Take it easy. Trying to play fast before your muscles are ready just tire you out and make bad playing habits.

Your picking should be quite fluent across all the strings on the guitar. As you practice your scales, play up and down from the sixth to the first string. If you are experiencing any fluffed notes or spots where you feel yourself exerting too much tension, slow down and see what aspect of your technique needs an adjustment.

Here is a lesson by Justin Sandercoe on blues soloing:

This is just the first of three lessons, so here is the second lesson and here is the third lesson.

There also material on learning how to play guitar solols at How to Play Guitar Solos for Newbies


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