Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free» Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free http://playaguitarforfree.com Free Online Guitar Lessons, Tools And Resources Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Rhythm Guitar Lessons http://playaguitarforfree.com/rhythm-guitar-lessons/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/rhythm-guitar-lessons/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:06:25 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1212 There’s more to playing rhythm than just guitar strumming lessons but learning to strum chords is a good start. If you want to learn to be a solo guitar player learning to play rhythm is important. It will give you an understanding of the guitar will help you to establish communication with the other members of the band.

If you can afford to pay a teacher for guitar lessons, group lessons will be a great way to learn rhythm. The conventional guitar learning wisdom says you should learn in one-on-one lessons but playing along in a group will quickly show you whether you are have a natural aptitude for rhythm or if you have to begin slowly and develop your rhythmic sense.

If you are taking free rhythm guitar lessons from YouTube for instance, you could introduce some variety by downloading the tab for your favorite songs and play the chords along to the song playing on a CD player. Hearing the original song in speakers along with your own efforts at playing the chords will be of more benefit than playing along to the song using earphones.

If you decide to learn rhythm guitar by playing along with songs, make sure you learn the chords to two or three songs at a time. Unlike the group guitar strumming lessons, at home alone it is easy to get stuck in a rut where you play the one song for weeks without making any real progress.


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    ]]>     http://playaguitarforfree.com/rhythm-guitar-lessons/feed/ 0     Blues In A http://playaguitarforfree.com/blues-in-a/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/blues-in-a/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:11:21 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1206 The bottom line for most people starting out with blues guitar is to become a solo player. This means you know how to improvise and to write yourself a collection of licks. Here is a starter in the form of the blues scale in A. Use alternate picking to play it up and down and sideways until you can do it in your sleep and then do the same in other keys. But practice slowly – your aim is to get it right. Speed comes by itself later.

    e————————————–5–8—-|

    B——————————–5–8———-|

    G———————–5–7–8—————-|

    D—————–5–7————————-|

    A——–5–6–7——————————-|

    E–5–8—————————————-|

    Here is a blues lick in A from David Wallimann of Jamplay:

    Jamplay has more beginner guitar lessons online.

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    ]]>     http://playaguitarforfree.com/blues-in-a/feed/ 0     Misa Guitar http://playaguitarforfree.com/misa-guitar/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/misa-guitar/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:05:13 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1199 Struggling with sore fingers could be a thing of the past for aspiring guitar players. The digital guitar is here. The Misa Guitar is really a midi controller but it looks like a guitar, waddles like a guitar and quacks like a guitar. Or like any other instrument.

    Electronic music has always involved some preparation. In the seventies Emerson Lake And Palmer showed what a keyboard player in pajamas could do with a bunch of electronic gizmos but that still left little for the devoted neck-fondlers in the way of self expression.

    According to the inventor: “The aim is for people to be able to translate the music in their head, out of the guitar in a more intuitive manner. I believe I have succeeded with this design. Because this instrument is really fun to play and really addictive. Much of the frustration of playing the tradition guitar is gone, but the digital guitar itself challenges your creativity more. This is the direction musical interfaces should be taking.”

    The notes are found on the neck in the same way you would find them on guitar strings. The difference is in the work the right hand has to do. The body of the guitar is a touch screen with volume control and sound variations assigned to areas on the body.

    Here is a video demo:

    So it’s not a real guitar with strings. If they had touch screens in the seventeenth century people would have played them. Now we have them, we can be purists or we can embrace the new world. You can’t actually buy one yet, so here’s the Misa Guitar Website where you can arrange to grab one when they become available.

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    ]]>     http://playaguitarforfree.com/misa-guitar/feed/ 0     Learn Guitar Strumming http://playaguitarforfree.com/learn-guitar-strumming/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/learn-guitar-strumming/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:55:50 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1193 When you first pick up the acoustic guitar you will probably find yourself deciding whether to use a plectrum or your fingers for strumming. There’s two factors to consider here – the sound and how it feels. Don’t take notice of anyone telling you that one kind of guitar picking is easier than another, skill comes with practice.

    If you want to use a plectrum, go to a music store and buy a few different thicknesses and sizes. Whichever kind of plectrum you use, hold it between your thumb and the side of your index finger. When you start out try to relax the fingers that aren’t engaged in holding the plectrum. Keep your whole arm relaxed as you strum. Many guitarists keep the arm moving up and down even if the music doesn’t call for hitting the strings at every pass.

    To some beginners strumming from the wrist feels right but you have a lot more freedom if you move your whole forearm from the elbow when you strum. You will probably need to work on your attack so that your up strokes sound out as loudly as your down strokes.



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    ]]>     http://playaguitarforfree.com/learn-guitar-strumming/feed/ 0     An Introduction To Playing The Blues http://playaguitarforfree.com/an-introduction-to-playing-the-blues/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/an-introduction-to-playing-the-blues/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:09:38 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1183 It’s been a while since the blues has been featured in these pages, so here is an introduction to the blues from one of the masters.

    Hawkeye Herman has been playing the blues since he was a teenager. That’s over fifty years. He learnt to play from people like Son House, Brownie McGhee, Bukka White, Sam Chatmon and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

    Hawkeye has played at folk and blues festivals all over the US and Europe, gathering a crowd of devoted fans along the way.

    In this video Hawkeye talks about moving chords and scales up the guitar neck and expressing yourself through blues music.



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      ]]>       http://playaguitarforfree.com/an-introduction-to-playing-the-blues/feed/ 1       Classical Guitars And Pickups http://playaguitarforfree.com/classical-guitars-and-pickups/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/classical-guitars-and-pickups/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:40:18 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1170 If you want to play nylon string acoustic guitar then put learning to play the guitar first and put amplification on the back burner. The classical guitar is fairly demanding so you would do well to put the time and effort into executing your pull-offs and hammer-ons and getting your picking – finger or flatpick – working before you add a pickup into the mix.

      You could buy an acoustic/electric guitar if you are really set on playing loud. And the acoustic/electric is usually cut away so you can get to the high frets. The nylon string acoustic has its own special sound which is not improved by the addition of a pickup. If you have a decent classical, use a microphone to be heard above room noise.

      Here is a comprehensive video on amplifying a nylon string acoustic guitar:


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      ]]>       http://playaguitarforfree.com/classical-guitars-and-pickups/feed/ 0       Free Video Guitar Lesson – Playing Rhythm Like James Hetfield http://playaguitarforfree.com/free-video-guitar-lesson-playing-rhythm-like-james-hetfield/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/free-video-guitar-lesson-playing-rhythm-like-james-hetfield/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 21:26:53 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1159

      Free Video Guitar Lesson

      Playing Rhythm Like The Masters: James Hetfield

      by Andrew Szucs of GuitarTricks.com

      This lesson teaches you how to play rhythm guitar in a style similar to James Hetfield of Metallica.
      Hetfield’s style incorporates a lot of downstroke picking, palm mutes, simple chord voices and single note riffs.

      The chords used here are simple “power chords” that you might hear in a lot of songs. What makes them Hetfield-ish is the ornamentation
      in between chords. A lot of the ornamental notes and chords are “outside” the scale. This gives the riff that dark metal sound.

      Even so, this progression doesn’t really sound like Metallica in the slow version that starts the lesson, where we explain the fingerings.
      For that, you’ll need to wait for the full speed demonstration. When
      the synchronization of the distorted guitar and the drums come together to give that classic
      metal sound, you can see how note choice alone is not the whole style.

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      Instructor: Andrew Szucs

      Speciality: Rock, Metal

      Website: GuitarTricks.com

      This lesson is part of a series that includes profiles of Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, and others.

      For over 3000 lessons on every guitar style and technique visit Guitar Tricks.


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        ]]>         http://playaguitarforfree.com/free-video-guitar-lesson-playing-rhythm-like-james-hetfield/feed/ 0         Guitar Lessons On Line http://playaguitarforfree.com/guitar-lessons-on-line/ http://playaguitarforfree.com/guitar-lessons-on-line/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 09:34:21 +0000 Ricky http://playaguitarforfree.com/?p=1154 Even with the popularity of Guitar Hero there are still lots of people who actually take the extra step of learning to play a real guitar. The basic skills lie in the areas of taking in information through our minds and learning new motor skills by practicing.

        Whether you learn to read conventional music notation or guitar tab there will be a learning curve where all these marks on the page will become less comprehensible the longer you study them, and then you turn the corner and reading music will be as easy breathing.

        The physical skills you need will be chord fingerings, strumming patterns and up and down picking. And, of course, the dreaded barre chord. To get you through this learning process you need clear and concise lessons. At the moment we are living in guitar learning paradise because we not only have written guitar lessons but also thousands of free guitar lesson videos.

        The guitar can be found in classical music, country, rock, blues, jazz and mixtures of all of the above. Every guitar style has distinctive techniques and probably makes use of a narrow range of chords and scales.

        Online guitar lessons give you access to the many elements of guitar playing. Free chord charts, tabs for instrumentals and songs, videos demonstrating how to place your fingers to make chords and tutorials on plectrum picking and finger picking are some of the diverse methods of teaching guitar playing.

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        Starting out learning to play the guitar is easy. You will need to get some knowledge together first. Some open chords, some scales and some strumming patterns to play rhythm. You can buy guitar tutor books at your local music store but any guitar lesson you need is available for free online.

        You will already have some idea of which songs you want to learn and you will find tab for almost any song in the universe in the free online tab archives. If you are able to spare the practice time, learn some songs outside the boundaries of the genre you’re most interested in. There are many simple pieces you can learn in classical, folk or jazz repertoires and your ability to play unusual pieces will keep your audience interested.

        Here’s a video showing some very easy guitar chords for beginners:



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        The number of knobs on your guitar can be somewhere between two and six. Basically your controls are for tone and volume with some models of guitar featuring controls giving you mixes of tone and volume for the different pickups.

        If your guitar is a second-hand one you will need to experiment to get your settings to your taste. You will see a toggle switch that controls which pickup is active. Try the different combinations of pickups, scratching your pick against the pickup cover to see which pickup is active.

        This video tells you all you need to know about the bridges and knobs. From there you will be able to fool around getting your personal sound:


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