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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.



Learn How To Play Scales On Guitar – The Major Scale

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Playing guitar solos and improvising begin with learning scales. This is basic boring grunt work which ultimately helps you mature as a musician and a composer. You may not be brilliant but if you persevere with learning scales, you will definitely surprise yourself. You will find yourself making up tunes, riffs and licks equal in quality to anything you find on records.

So resign yourself to some slow, careful scale practice. The major scale has a fixed “space” between each note. The distance of one fret separating two notes is called a “step”. If notes are next to each other on the guitar neck, they are a “half step” apart. For example, if you play the open sixth string to sound the note E, a half step up will be F which you will find on the first fret.

Here is a simple video lesson on the major scale:

And to progress a little further, here is an article on learning blues guitar scales.


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One Response to “Learn How To Play Scales On Guitar – The Major Scale”

  1. Peter Yee
    October 27th, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

    Dear Sir/Madam

    I can only see you fingering all the strings from the first to the sixth strings. Playing these strings in a scale creates a very nice melodic sound. But I still do not understand how I can apply this trick when playing solo accoustic classical music.

    I would very much appreciate it if you could kindly explain to me how it could be done. Thank you so much.

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