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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 To Play Guitar Songs

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There are two reasons you need to give some thought the songs you are going to learn to play on your guitar. When you are just beginning to learn how to play guitar you will need to learn songs that help you with your technique. Your repertoire of guitar songs should give you opportunities to learn the basic chords and work on changing from one to the other.

Learning to play a number of songs is a great way to lift your level of guitar playing. The basic idea is to learn one song well so that you can play it without rushing but don’t spend weeks and months on it. Learn when to move on. There is a fear that learner guitarists feel that if they stop practising a song they will forget it. The reality is that if you learn a variety of songs and revise them once in a while, your overall guitar playing skills will be much better than the guitar student who won’t move on until he knows a song “perfectly”. Really, when you are just learning guitar, you will not do anything perfectly until you have had some broad experience at playing.

When you start on a new song, it’s a good idea to pick one that helps you learn a new chord or technique, like learning one of the basic barre chord shapes. You can get together a list of songs you want to learn whenever you have a minute to go on the internet and search through the tab archives.

The second thing you need to have in mind when you are getting together a list of guitar songs is playing in public. You can play your songs at local venues like coffeehouses. You will probably need enough songs to fill about ninety minutes. If you think that learning so many songs might take an overly long time, you could probably get away with setting up a music stand in most venues and playing from sheet music.

This video will help you get started on learning simple guitar songs:


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