If you’re at all serious about learning to play the guitar, you’ll already know the secret to advancing your skills. Practice, practice, practice. Saying it is actually easier said than done. You need to, first of all, make the time, and you also need to come up with a suitable practice routine, that will develop…
It’s inevitable that when you set out on learning something new, you will make mistakes. This is true for learning guitar as well. Being a private and online guitar teacher, I’ve helped a lot of beginner guitar students get through the initial hardships, and have observed several very common beginner mistakes newbies tend to make….
One of the biggest challenges a beginner guitarist will face is learning how to play barre chords (bar chords). In all honesty, being able to play and use barre chords is guitar songs is not the easiest thing in the world. It takes practice and patience, but the good news is that it can be…
If you are thinking of learning an instrument, learning the guitar is an excellent choice. It’s cheap, takes up very little space, and you will see that performing a tune that you’ve been listening to your entire life, or improvising will be really enjoyable. If you’re considering teaching yourself the guitar without a live teacher,…
Quick question. If you had to choose between playing repetitive exercises on the guitar OR playing popular guitar riffs taken from real songs, which would you chose? Probably the later… Here are 50+ popular songs that have easy guitar riffs for beginner and intermediate guitar players. Well, most are easy, some are a bit harder….
GuitarTricks.com now offers a free trial membership for 14 days from signing up. After the trial period, you will automatically become a monthly member, and be billed $19.95 per month for the remainder of your membership at GuitarTricks. How to get access to GuitarTricks’s free trial Here are the steps you need to take to…
Because of all the media hype around online lessons these days and after reading this GuitarTricks review, I decided to create a detailed review of GuitarTricks myself. I’ve been using the site for years, so I have lots of experience with their lessons and have seen them develop their offering. Most other reviews just state…
Steve Krenz of the Learn and Master Guitar DVD course is a 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. Disclosure: The…
I would estimate that there are literally hundreds of thousands of guitar-related websites on the Internet, with a few hundred popping up every month. While many of these sites will have something valuable to add, I tried to collect the best guitar websites, the ones that I think will be most useful to my guitar…
Kirk Hammett of Metallica is rated as being #11 on the Rolling Stones magazine list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but you know what, he’s only human, just like the rest of us 🙂 We all have our bad days, and so does Kirk: Oh yeah, check out our Metallica guitar lessons…