Making an aspiring guitarist happy has never been this simple! You can now purchase TheGuitarLesson.com Gift Certificates for your family, friends, or anybody you care about, allowing them to get instant Premium Membership status at TheGuitarLesson.com for a duration of either 4 or 8 months.

The gift of music!

Premium Membership at TheGuitarLesson.com will allow the recipient of the gift certificate to view all of our guitar lessons on songs. All of our video guitar tutorials contain animated tablature, which makes learning the guitar fun and much easier than learning through traditional means.

So if you’ve been wondering about what the perfect gift would be for basically any occasion, think no more. I guarantee that a TheGuitarLesson.com Gift Voucher will make anybody who is learning, or is thinking about learning the guitar very-very happy.

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The Internet has taken guitar lessons to whole new dimensions nowadays. Not only is there a barrage of information on how to learn the guitar, but also many useful tools and resources beginners will find helpful. If you want to teach yourself guitar, you just need to do a couple of searches, find a site which you like, and start learning.

If you are stuck, check out Mashable’s 11 resources for learning guitar on the web.

Are you an absolute beginner to the guitar? Do you have some experience, and want to start learning easy to play songs for beginners on your guitar?

If your answer is YES to any of the above, that good news! You CAN start playing easy guitar songs for beginners from virtually day 1 of picking up the guitar.

Guitar Songs 101

There are tons of very popular, yet simple songs you can start playing today! Of course, you’ll need to be familiar with some basic principles and techniques, but once you can pluck a couple of notes and hold down a couple of simple beginners guitar chords, you’ll be well on your way to learning to play songs on your guitar as well.

At TheGuitarLesson.com, you’ll find high quality video guitar lessons teaching you how to play the best songs in an easy, step-by-step manner. Here are a couple of the most popular lessons you could start watching today:

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The Beatles were one of the most productive bands in history. They used many instruments, sometimes entire orchestras when composing their songs, but thankfully, many of their songs have really great guitar covers.

TheGuitarLesson.com offers several The Beatles guitar lessons, and as always, all of them include animated tabs and chord diagrams, which make following the tutorials easy as pie.

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Steve Krenz of the Learn and Master Guitar DVD course is professional guitarist and instructor with a wealth of knowledge about playing, and teaching the guitar. His courses Learn and Master Guitar, and the new Learn and Master Spotlight Series: Blues Guitar convey nothing but pure professionalism, and a love for teaching.

Steve Krenz at his best

The best part of Steve Krenz’s teaching style is that he doesn’t take things for granted, and explains every concept in a detailed, step-by-step understandable manner, which is one of the most important elements of being a good guitar teacher. Many teacher fail to recognize the fact that things that may seem evident to them, will not be understandable to the student.

This is especially important with a DVD guitar course, where the student can’t ask questions freely. And this is why Steve’s guitar course is invaluable to you if you want to teach yourself guitar.

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Beside TheGuitarLesson.com, which offers some of the highest quality guitar lessons for beginners on the Internet, another powerful course that is great for beginners is Learn and Master Guitar with Steve Krenz, which is a 20 DVD course shipped to your home.

Discount on L&M Guitar

The course is somewhat pricey, but you can now get a nice discount on Learn and Master guitar, that isn’t available too often, meaning you’ll get the course for $99 instead of the normal $149 price tag. So basically, you get a 33°% discount off of the entire DVD course. And money in your pocket is always better than money in someone else’s

To get Learn and Master Guitar for the discount price of $99, all you need to do is click here >>

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Learning how to hold the guitar pick correctly is one of the first things you should learn when you decide to learn the guitar. If you learn it well in the beginning, you’ll never need to worry about it again, and it’ll make your learning experience much easier. Many beginners instinctively hold the pick between the tips of their thumb and index finger, which is incorrect, and will result in lessened stability.

So, lets get to it.

Correct hand position

Step 1: Initial hand position

Curl your hand as in the picture, almost as if you were showing a loose thumbs up. Your index finger is curled, and is parallel with your thumb.
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Announcing the completion of a new tool, that will make learning and playing guitar chords just a bit easier, the new Guitar Chords Widget for Wordpress. The new widget can be installed onto any Wordpress powered website, and will be a real value added to the owner of the site. Why? Since the widget not only looks cool, but is very useful for all guitarists.

Widget Installed

The widget is meant to be a useful, easy to install plugin available to all webmasters with guitar related websites. The guitar chord Wordpress plugin is absolutely free, we just ask that you help spread the word by placing a link onto your website leading to TheGuitarLesson.com, or write a couple of lines on your blog about the widget.

Check out the Guitar Widget in action >>

Download from wordpress.org >>

The widget is easy to install, and even easier to use. It displays over 1,400 chords, depending on the parameters set by the website visitor as follows:

• Key of the chords
• Type of chord
• Voicing

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We are happy to announce that we’ve installed new encoder software onto our streaming servers, resulting in 40-50% lower file sizes, therefore half the streaming time required for videos.
This upgrade is especially useful for our students with a slower Internet connection who experienced interruptions and lags while watching the videos.

After changing guitar strings, you will find that your strings get out of tune very easily for about 1-2 weeks, depending on how much you play and how often you retune. This is due to the fact that new strings stretch, causing them to go out of tune very easily. I want to share a little secret on how to overcome this problem, to save you the constant hassle of having to retune often.

Stretch it baby!

When you put on new strings, you need to stretch them manually, otherwise they will keep going out of tune until they stretch by themselves. There is a very simple and straight forward method of stretching your strings after changing them, which most beginners don’t know about, and therefore have to retune almost each time they pick up the guitar.

So get ready, here is a short guitar lesson for beginners on one of the secret tricks of the trade you’ll want to carry out after changing guitar strings:
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