Free is a word we all like to hear, especially when we’ve just spent the last of our money on a brand new guitar and need something to play. Fortunately for the aspiring (and broke) beginning guitar god, the Internet is full of websites run by helpful peers who’ve poured their blood, sweat, and tears …
TAB is a type of musical notation specifically for stringed instruments and closely associated with guitar. In TAB the strings of the guitar are represented by six horizontal lines with the lowest string being the bottom line. Numbers written on the lines indicate which frets are to be played. In TAB, some of the standard …
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There’s nothing like playing actual songs to keep you interested when you first start playing guitar. It’s hard for beginners to understand that a lot of effort goes into learning to play guitar well. So many beginning players pick up a guitar expecting to play something right away, and while this isn’t how it works, …
The blues is a musical form that has found its way into musical genres ranging from hard rock to country and western. It’s foundation is a six note scale that can be conceived by adding a diminished fifth to the minor pentatonic scale. You could also start with a major scale and omit the second …
Country music has a long-standing love affair with the blues. A good many of the greatest country songs written have been influenced by the blues in some way, which isn’t surprising when you consider how closely the two genres are related. Country music can be complex in its simplicity, with the major, the pentatonic, and …
Learning to play guitar can be expensive. There’s the cost of the guitar, of course, and an amplifier if you’re going to play electric guitar (and eventually you’ll have to have all those cool effects you can’t live without), and then there’s the cost of learning to play guitar, whether you purchase lessons or hire …
It’s fun to play songs on the guitar when you’re first starting to learn. The good news is, there are plenty of guitar songs for beginners, so you can usually play something with just a few lessons (and simple guitar chords) under your belt. The earliest songs you might encounter are songs almost everybody is …
Chords are an essential component of playing the guitar. When you first start out, it’s best to make a habit of learning one or two new chords a week, and with each chord you learn, practice playing it with the previous chords you’ve learned. Not only does this help you commit the chords to memory, …
Not a lot of things are truly free. Some web sites advertise free and give you what they promised, but with a lot of web sites (or other venues as well), there’s usually a catch. A lot of guitar web sites these days offer free guitar lessons and actually deliver. Some of them are trying …