Easy Beginners Guitar Lessons – How to Improve Your Technique by Playing Arpeggios on Your Guitar

pSince 1957 arpeggios have been gradually phased out of guitar instructional material, if you are a newbie guitar player you probably don#39;t have the faintest idea what I#39;m talking about./ppHowever, there#39;s a good possibility you already know how to play arpeggios, guitar players have invented all sorts of fancy names for their arpeggio techniques./ppIf you [...]

How to play guitar book

“Shout outs to Adam Summers from InstantGuitarist.com for putting this book together for me, he’s been teaching people how to  play guitar for awhile and finally got something down on paper to share with all of you.” Check out his book here -  How to Play Guitar

Hand Position When Playing Guitar

When you are playing guitar your fretting (holding the strings down) hand holds the chords and the notes on the guitar neck, while you strumming hand either finger picks or plays with the pick over the body The Fretting Hand Try and position your thumb about midway up the back of the guitar neck. When your thumb is in this position it acts as a balancing force to your fingers as you play chords. This is because in effect you are squeezing the neck between your thumb and fingers.

How To Hold A Guitar Pick

Playing with a pick is the easiest way to get a reasonable sound out of your guitar, especially if you use steel strings. Although strumming is possible using just your fingers there is no point in making life difficult for yourself.

How To Change Your Guitar Strings

How often you need to go out and buy new strings depends on several things including how much you play you guitar, the climate and where you store it. When your strings start sounding dull, lifeless or begin to look rusted and worn it’s usually a good sign that they need replacing.

A Quick Method of Learning All Major Guitar Chords on the Neck – Intro to the CAGED System

Understanding where to play the different major chords (A, B, C, D, E, F and G) at different places on the neck can be a challenge. Thankfully there is a somewhat simple system that exists on the guitar neck that can help you find 5 different locations for each major chord.

The Pattern for Learning Guitar Notes On the Neck

Learning to play different notes up the neck and on each string is an important part of a beginners foundation. After all chords and scales are all made up of a mixture of notes, if you don’t know where different notes are located on the neck you’ll sort of plateau with your learning sooner then later

Beginner Guitar Chords Using Only Three Strings

Learning guitar chords can be intimidating for a beginner. That’s why in today’s post I want to show you three different 3 string guitar chords

Learning to Tune Your Guitar By Ear

Most beginner guitar players tune their guitar using an electric tuner. It is of course the most logical way seeing that there are these small tuning devices for just the job

Easy 12 Bar Blues Progression Tutorial

Learning to play the 12 bar blues is fun. Some beginners may feel that learning blues guitar is some what daunting but that isn’t the case.

Next Page »