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Electric Guitar vs. Acoustic Guitar – Which is Better for Beginners?

One of the most common questions I get from new guitar players is to answer the epic question once and for all, and decide whether Is it best for beginners to learn on an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar? This is a very interesting question that causes many disagreements between us, guitar teachers as…

Guitar Lessons Cost Comparison

How Much Do Guitar Lessons Cost? Surprising Answer!

With online video guitar lessons now a true alternative to in-person lessons, the price of guitar lessons has significantly decreased for beginner and advanced guitarists alike. While in-person guitar lessons cost between $40-$70 per 45-minute session, you can sign up on a number of high-quality websites and receive online lessons for next to nothing. Here…

Help! My Fat Fingers are Muting the Guitar Strings!

One of the most common problems that beginner guitarists experience is the “fat finger” issue. I put it into quotation marks, because 95% of the time, it’s not a real problem, just a newbie thing. No matter whether they have short and chubby fingers, or long and skinny ones, beginners will always have difficulty fretting…

Learn to Feel the Blues

I’ve written loads on learning blues guitar, but never really talked about how you can feel the blues πŸ™‚ You’ve probably noticed that blues guitarists absolutely love their job. Their face says it all. I mean if you’ve ever been to a blues bar with real blues musicians, or have seen BB King when he…

22 Most Influential and Best Blues Guitarists

Blues guitar is one of the most influential guitar genres, therefore the best blues guitarists had a significant impact and influence on our music today. Ever since the end of the 19th century when the African-American communities of the Southern US started playing and singing the blues, it has affected and shaped other musical genres…

Should a guitarist learn standard music notation, or just guitar tablature?

One of my online students just wrote me a letter, asking whether he needs to learn to read standard music notation, or is tablature enough. …a few guys locally who are in the local music biz and they all tell me that guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, should only be taught with the standard music notation……

Guitar Pro Tutorial

GP6 is an awesome piece of tablature editing and playback software, and it is also a very useful tool for beginner guitarists learning to play the guitar, therefore I recommend all my students get it. This Guitar Pro tutorial will NOT cover the tons of features that take quite some time to learn and master…