Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

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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.

Looking For Songs That Use Beginner Guitar Chords?

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Some beginner guitar players decide to learn to play chords before they learn some songs. Many experienced guitar players recommend finding some easy songs first and using the chord changes in the song as an exercise to learn how to play chords. But if you decided to learn some chords first and now you are able to string a few simple open guitar chords together after some intensive guitar practice, it’s time to look for some songs to play. Your first stop should be Chordie, which is a search engine for finding guitar chords and tabs. Let’s say you have learnt to play the A, E, G, D and A minor chords. You go to Chordie’s song list and find a song that interests you. If you click on a song and find it does not use the chords you are familiar with, Chordie has a handy Transpose Button which you keep clicking till the song appears in a key that has the chords you feel comfortable with. If you want to learn to play House Of The Rising Sun, go through the song list until you find the song which will be arranged using Am, C, D and F. If for some reason that arrangement does not suit you, you can go to the right of the page and transpose the song up five semitones and the tabs appear using Dm, F, G and Bb. You can also find the tabs for any song arranged for banjo, ukulele and mandolin.

And here is the amazing Justin Sandercoe with a video guitar lesson on the A and E chords.


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