Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Free Online Guitar Lessons, Tools And Resources
Join our quest for free guitar lessons, videos and info on guitar playing!

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.




Squier Electric Guitars

Posted on | | 4 Comments


If you are looking to buy your first guitar this post will guide you gently in the direction of the Squier Bullet – the bottom of the range Strat but a good guitar all the same. Stratocasters made under the Squier brand name are manufactured in Korea, China or Indonesia. This is a good guitar for a beginner, and you probably won’t need to buy another guitar for quite some time if you can’t afford to be spending big on guitars. For the learning guitar player on a tight budget is the “Bullet” model. Next model up is the “Affinity” and the top of the Squier range is the “Standard”.

The hardware on the Squier Bullet is low grade compared to the guitars higher up the quality chain, so you will need to look after these parts, but you will still be getting a “real” guitar that will do your music justice as your technique matures.

This video gives a demo and a tour of the Squier Bullet model which is the bottom of the range but still a great instrument for a beginner:

Here is a Wikipedia article on the changes to the Bullet model Squier guitars.


Comments

4 Responses to “Squier Electric Guitars”

  1. Electric Guitar For Beginners
    November 22nd, 2009 @ 7:21 am

    [...] guitars have made their home in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the [...]

  2. Electric Guitar For Beginners | How To Play Guitar
    November 22nd, 2009 @ 7:26 pm

    [...] guitars have made their home in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the [...]

  3. Electric Guitar For Beginners
    November 23rd, 2009 @ 2:42 am

    [...] Electric guitars have made their home in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the [...]

  4. Electric Guitar For Beginners | Maple Leaf Jams
    November 23rd, 2009 @ 7:27 am

    [...] guitars have made their home in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the [...]

Leave a Reply





Subscribe in a reader

  

Privacy Policy