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…
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…
Learning the piano to some capacity is something that almost everyone can do. It takes some time and patience, as well as dedication, but ultimately builds confidence and adds a skill that can be used to impress people with beautiful piano music. After hundreds of years, the piano is an instrument that is still used…
I’ve written loads on learning blues guitar, but never really talked about how you can feel the blues 🙂 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…
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…
Once you learn to get all your strings ringing with the barre chords, the next step is being able to change to them smoothly (or as smooth as possible for a while, which will get better over time). The trick here is to have your left hand always be able to form the exact barre…
Blues is one of the most important genres of music. It has shaped other styles, like jazz, rock, metal, even country.
Guitarists who know how to play blues guitar have a definite advantage over others.
So let’s get to it.
Below I’ll review the best blues guitar courses you’ll find on the internet.
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……
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…
Besides 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 DVD course shipped to your home. The course is somewhat pricey, but you can now get a nice discount on…