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Learn to Play Guitar – Online or Offline?

Posted on 10 November 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ricky Sharples asked:

So you have finally decided to learn to play guitar. Have you decided to learn online or are you going for face to face lessons? Your average guitar teacher will wind up costing you about eighty to one hundred dollars every month. That is just for one lesson per week. On the other hand a nifty set of videos cannot give you personal advice based on the observation of your playing by a seasoned professional guitar player.

A live guitar teacher might offer you the chance to take a free lesson to help you decide whether to commit yourself to a course of lessons. You could sit down with your teacher during your free lesson and tell him how you want to progress with the guitar. He can tell you if your goals are realistic or if you need to rethink your dreams of the future. This will let you get an idea of how committed your teacher is to turning students into guitar players. A good guitar teacher will be listen to your plans for your guitar playing and his teaching methods and advice will be tailored to your specific needs. He can watch you play and see where you are going wrong and what you need to do to fix it.

If you lead a busy life it might not be practical for you to get to a guitar teacher once a week and devote half an hour, an hour or more per day to practicing the guitar as well as performing your professional and family duties. If you are one of these busy people the prospect of saving money on guitar tuition fees and transport fares or fuel costs you might want to think seriously about learning guitar online. If you decide to go for an online course then how do you know which one to choose?
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The internet has archives of guitar tabs, sites containing free lessons, thousands of free videos and countless opportunities for us to watch videos of the best guitarists in the world, past or present, dead or alive. There are many forums with guys who have been playing the guitar for many years waiting for a chance to pass on their expertise and love of guitar playing to beginners. If you save a few of these guitar forums to your bookmarks in your browser you can visit a few every day and copy and paste any advice or tabs that you find useful.

There are guitar lesson websites that have the lessons set out in the correct sequence for a beginner guitar player’s progress. The formulators of these guitar courses are experienced guitar players who have extensive experience teaching the guitar and playing in bands. These online lessons are great for people who need a basic understanding of the guitar, how to hold it and play chords for easy songs. Free online guitar lessons get these people playing the guitar fast.

Here is a great way to make use of free guitar tools and tabs you find on the internet. You could organize your basic tools into groups like tabs, chord charts, songs, scales, articles and tools such as online guitar tuners. You create some folders on your computer for each of these groups so that you can get to your learning material easily during your guitar practice time.

Online guitar lessons also go a long way towards saving your dignity as well as your money. You can work quietly in your own room at any difficulties or misunderstanding about guitar playing without exposing your shortcomings to another person. You can do this at your own pace, seeking more advice from forums to help you with your problems. If you have only a little time to spend on guitar practice online lessons will accommodate you, and if you find that you have some extra time you will always find something new and interesting to learn.

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Learn Guitar in No Time!

Posted on 17 October 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Rajinderpal Singh asked:


Many beginning guitar approach me and ask for advice how to play guitar ‘fast’. I inevitably ask them whether they already play guitar, and just want to be faster on the fretboard, or whether they’re “newbies” who want a fasttrack to basic proficiency.

This got me wondering whether there might be a connection between the two. It seemed far-fetched; but, the more I thought about it, the more parallels I saw between these two seemingly different levels of training.

So, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that:

1. You can learn guitar faster by studying the techniques involved making your overall playing ability ‘faster’, and..

2. You can become a ‘faster’ guitar player by re-focusing your practice sessions on the basic concepts and techniques taught to every beginner.

The reasons for this overlap and can be summed up in a handy acronym: M.O.S.T. — or, “Memorization, Observation and Strength Training.” Let’s cover each one to clarify the point.

Memorization

One of the things that slows down both beginning and intermediate guitar players, no matter how good of an ‘ear’ for music they have, is a failure to memorize:

1. All of the notes on the fretboard

2. Chords and scales for the Major and Minor Keys

It doesn’t matter whether you’re just starting out, or have a few year’s playing experience already. The reality is that ‘hunting and pecking’ for the needed chord or note will slow you down.

You don’t have time in the middle of a song to stop so you can figure out if a Dbminor chord will work in the key of B, and then figure out where that chord is relative to your current position on the fretboard.

If you’re a beginner, then memorizing your fretboard is the place to start. This will make it easier for you to memorize chords and scale patterns, as well as understand the relationship between them in music theory.

If you’re already playing the guitar, then you should focus on increasing your knowledge in both of these areas. You probably have a good part of your fretboard memorized already, but can you jump to any note or chord automatically?

Observation

Your senses of touch, sight and sound are all involved in playing guitar. As you play, you will no doubt feel the development of ‘muscle memory’ as your fingers play across familiar chords and scales. You will see patterns and relationships on the fretboard. You will hear what you’re playing and come to connect it with all of the above.

Memorization is the foundation for observation, and observation is the key to training your mind and hands to work in concert automatically.

If you want the ability to play anything you hear ‘in your head’ the moment your fingers reach the fretboard, then you must wed memorization with observation when you practice.

Strength Training

No, I’m not suggesting you lift weights at the gym! Strength training, which really includes ‘dexterity’ training, is part and parcel of everything we’ve covered so far.

Beginning guitarists often struggle to hold down chords, and to play scales with all four fingers. This is simply a matter of building strength, muscle memory and dexterity through consistent and correct practice.

Intermediate players who want to get faster on the fretboard must realize that the most likely culprit(s) behind issues with ‘speed’ will be a deficiency in strength, dexterity, correct techqnie or all three.

Newbies should focus on strength building exercises and on performing those exercises consistently and perfectly. If you’re given an exercise that requires you to hit a note with your pinky, but you decide to ‘cheat’ by using your ring finger, know that your playing will hit a wall down the line.

Likewise, players who can’t seem to exceed their current speed on the guitar should examine their own technique. Have you stopped working on your strength training because the exercises are boring? Is your technique ‘sloppy’?

There are some things you simply can’t get away with at 160 bmp (beats per minute) the way you can at 120 bmp.

In conclusion, the key to learning guitar faster – as well as playing it faster – rests in following the M.O.S.T. formula. It really is all about getting the basics right from the start!



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Learn Guitar – Tab Or Sheet Music?

Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ricky Sharples asked:


Many guitarists are adamant that the only way to learn guitar is by learning to read sheet music. Some even go so far as to say that if all guitar tab was removed from the world the level of guitar playing would be much higher. The main objection to that idea is that many famous guitar players never learnt to read sheet music. Some even have trouble with tab. Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Tommy Emmanuel and Jeff Beck are shining examples. Of course, all these guitarists were following their own idiosyncratic ways of expressing themselves through the guitar rather than learning a broad range of music but there are still those who are thinking of a whole world of music that is closed to people who have not learnt to read notation. What would possibly be raised if tab were eliminated would be the level of communication between guitarists because we would all be speaking the same langusage.

But it is highly unlikely that guitar players who have more of an instinctive approach to the guitar will ever take the trouble to learn theory and standard music notation. At the same time the people who have made the effort to learn to read music will continue to feel that they have a greater understanding  of the guitar and the ability to learn new music faster than guitarists who do not have a background of theory at their fingertips.

You could say that the bottom line is what works for the individual. If you can play guitar but can’t read music, does that make you an inferior guitarist? A weakness with learning from tabs is that timing and rhythm can’t be learnt from tabs but some people write tabs incorporating the elements of sheet music notation that show note values and timing, and this kind of notation is very easy to learn.

There are those guitar players who see sheet music notation as a language that was invented by keyboard players and is not very well suited to the guitar. It should be noted that without learning musical theory as well, learning to read music is just a part of the language of music and is not a great deal more useful than tabs. Also the amount of music theory a guitarist learns is in proportion to his interest in music in general but will not necessarily make him a better guitar player than a guy who doesn’t read music.

It has often been pointed out by guitar players who play in an open or alternate tuning that if you are used to reading and playing music in standard tuning you might find it very difficult to sight read a piece written in an alternate tuning using standard musical notation. If this is true it would suggest that reading standard music is not the key to universal understanding of the guitar.



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Mini Guitar Lesson – How To Play Two Great Chord Progressions You Must Know To Be Able To Progress To Becoming A Great Player!

Posted on 21 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

by Mike Jones

Here’s another Mini Guitar Lesson by Mike Jones from Killer Guitar Tips.

Great guitar players do not just happen out of thin air. Great guitar players have practiced their art and practiced on a regular basis! But be WARNED… Many people practice the wrong things. They actually practice BAD habits. In order to progress you need to practice the right things. I know this sounds blatantly obvious but many, many people get this wrong. They practice things that they actually like which could be reinforcing their bad habits they have already acquired.

YOU’RE in the minority! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You’re in the select 5% of people who will be practicing the CORRECT methods and techniques that will catapult your guitar playing into hyperspace.

So stay tuned…

Let’s get straight on with this mini guitar lesson…

We will start with a really cool chord progression that’s great to play pentatonic riffs over when you are jamming with a friend, it will make you sound like a great player with no effort whatsoever!

So here it is, it’s real easy… Play one bar of each chord A, G, D, and A. Now keep on playing these chords over and over while your friend makes up a solo using the Am pentatonic scale at the fifth fret!! It sounds great.

Why not swop parts and get your friend to play the chords while you solo over this sequence in Am. Just listen to yourself sounding like a top pro player!

Now now have a progression you know that will fit in at any jam night or venue. You will be able to get up with a friend and sound like a real pro guitarist. It just takes a little practice ideally with your friend.

Another great little progression that goes along with this nicely and is the backbone of many great songs is a 4 bar sequence that repeats itself over and over again and is commonly known as the ‘turnaround’.

Lets take a closer look at this so here goes:

Play the 1st bar G, the second is Em, the 3rd is C and the last is a bar of D.

Play the rhythm of 4 beats to a bar and repeat this turnaround to your hearts content.

Again this is a superb jam sequence. Why not get your friends to jam along to it in the key of G. You play the rhythm and they solo over the top then change around, you solo they play rhythm.

Oh, and dont forget that my full guitar audio/video program is loaded with lots of amazing chord sequences that will allow you to lay down great sounding rhythm guitar that will astound your friends and rock your audience.

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About Mike Jones The Author: Mike has been teaching and playing guitar as a professional for over two decades. Over this time he has developed a amazing and unique speed learning system that brings the beginner through to great player in the shortest possible time. To find out more about Mike’s amazing techniques and to receive some free tips and tricks why not go to his website at: Learn Guitar

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Acoustic Guitar For Beginner – How To Choose Your First Guitar

Posted on 20 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The kind of music you want to perform have to be your main concern when getting an acoustic guitar for beginner. You will also take into account the kind of individual you are and of course your budget. Fortunately, guitars are quite cheap comparing to other instruments. Check out the price for a piano or a drum set and you will see. A nylon-string classical guitar is best suited for playing classical, Latin and some kinds of folk and pop music. Rock, bluegrass, and other kinds of pop and folk songs work better on a guitar with steel strings.For beginning guitar players, it’s suggested to perform the various types before making a final decision as to what sound you prefer.

Numerous teachers suggest a guitar with nylon strings as a first acoustic guitar for beginner. The reason is that those strings are not so hard on the guitarist’s fingertips. This isn’t always the best recommendation, because not everyone wants to perform the sort of music that a nylon-string guitar produces. Some want to perform like a rock star, or simply don’t love the tone that comes from a nylon-stringed guitar.

If you wish to learn to play music made by steel strings then the evident choice is a steel-string guitar. You’ll eventually develop calluses on your fingers after about one to two months of steady practice.If, in spite of this, you want to study classical music, don’t be enticed by a steel string guitar.

A classic guitar is considered classic because the dimensions are similar. So, keep that in mind if that’s the sort of guitar you are in the market for. Their bodies are smaller and their fingerboads wider, which produces a unique classical sound. It is the feel and the tone to these classical guitars that varies. As is true when buying any guitar, you need to try out several of them before deciding the acoustic guitar for beginner that you are going to purchase.The steel-string model of acoustic guitar for beginner that people usually start out with is the six-string dreadnought guitar. There is only a slight variation between dreadnought guitars and they provide a sound that beginners are often looking for.

The wood your trainee acoustic guitar is made of is important as it will influence the tone of the sound the instrument makes. A spruce top is the most common for an acoustic guitar for beginner. Make sure your new guitar has a solid spruce top rather than a two-piece one. A solid top is long-lasting. Your choices of wood for the back and sides will likely include mahogany, rosewood and spruce. If you want a lighter tone, look for guitars that have back and sides of mahogany. You will get a heavier tone from a guitar that features rosewood back and sides.

The “action” is the term for the area between the neck and the strings. When getting an acoustic guitar for beginner, another thing you wish is a fairly low action. An action that is too high it can be a distraction and a hindrance to learning.

While you are out getting an acoustic guitar for beginner, you will want to pick up a decent electronic tuner at the same time. As a novice you have not yet developed an ear. If you can tune your acoustic guitar for beginner quickly, you will have more time to perform, which is really what the beginner wants to do.

Simon Mourrain has been a guitar player for over 10 years. Visit his website http://acousticguitarforbeginner.info and get a HUGE head start on your Acoustic guitar for beginner learning. Click Acoustic guitar for beginner to find free videos as well as information on guitar theory.

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Learn To Play Guitar Fast

Posted on 14 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jamorama is configured to instruct you to play songs, learn to play songs by ear, and transcribe music you listen . It is not a theory intense program, but it does cover the basics.

Jamorama creator, Ben Edwards is a solid guitar instructor and I imagine you’ll like his teaching style. He’s a pro player and is also a prepared instructor. Ben has been teaching as well as playing for a lot of years and is familiar with each guitar books as well learning courses that are available presently.

Jamorama is professionally put together, and I was really impressed by how helpful the instructions were. I used to go to the search engines and seek to find scattered bits of guitar lessons and guides, but ever since I tried out Jamorama, it saved me a load of time and effort.

You get a thirty day free access to the website Songpond.com. This is a learn to play guitar fast site that shows you how to play pop songs through video instruction. Jamorama contains the same of about six months worth of guitar lessons if you were to space them out like you were taking every week lessons from a local guitar teacher. A local teacher normally will charge anywhere from $20 to $50 per lesson.

A great skill you’ll learn using this guide is how to “jam” with other players. Many beginning guitar players (and some advanced ones) have a hard time with this aspect of music making.

Jamorama is packed full of quality step-by-step lessons, sound files, games and other resources to take you from where you’re now to being a great guitar player, and get YOU results fast, regardless of your current skill level! I cant emphasize this enough; Jamorama makes learning FUN!

Jamorama is the idea of a former lead guitar player for the New Zealand-based rock band called Degrees K and his name is Ben Edwards. If you’ve been playing the guitar for quite some time now or if you are just a beginner, you’ll surely appreciate this system and the best thing about Jamorama is, you can learn to play guitar fast or rhythm guitar the fun and entertaining way.

Learn to play guitar fast can be easy with Jamorama.

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Killer Beginner Guitar Solo Lessons!

Posted on 31 August 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ben Edwards, professional musician, international performer and experienced musical instructor has now released Jamorama! If youre looking to learn lead guitar you have to check out these informative guitar solo lessons.

Years of performing experience has allowed Ben Edwards to create a strong, acclaimed online guitar lessons called “Jamorama”.

With over 40 instructional guitar solo lesson videos that focus on basics and work up to more difficult, crowd-pleasing techniques, Jamorama has something for everyone! First, you learn basic bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and then you head toward the more difficult techniques that can be played on the guitar, such as rakes and sweeps.
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Whether you are looking to improve your musical career, or gain a great new hobby, Jamorama focuses on the basics. Beginners can feel comfortable getting a new head start with their skills. These guitar solo lessons are also for intermediate and advanced level guitar players, and help musicians of all levels solidify their skills. Keep reading if you want to go further and advance your skills with guitar solo lessons!

Jamorama guitar solo lessons come with over 40 video lessons and 20+ customized instrumental tracks that will teach you to play by ear. Learning to play by ear is one of the most important skills a successful guitar player can have!

In order to be an excellent guitarist, it is essential that you learn to listen to and identify the background section. Jamorama will teach you to unlock the tricks of the trade, which will be essential to your future shredding.

It is important that you take the time to learn the precise finger placements on the fret-board based on the key of the song. You may have noticed that most experienced guitarists can pick up a guitar and jam in almost any key!

No matter how talented a musician is, all great guitarists have had some form of solo guitar lessons.

Young or old, beginner or advanced, Jamorama solo guitar lessons offer something for everyone!

Edwards offers a complete 100% Money Back Guarantee on Jamorama.

Jamorama offers over 40 video lessons and licks ranging from beginner to expert! It is the best solo guitar lessons platorms on the market today!

Learn to Play Lead with Jamorama and shred! These killer guitar solo lessons will take your guitar playing to the most advanced level! Learn more about Jamorama Lead and Ben Edwards!

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The Various Ways to Learn Guitar Scales

Posted on 05 May 2009. Tags: , ,

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Guitar Scales play a very important role in the use of a guitar. And there are various ways to learn scales on the Guitar. Scale primer is a set of simple finger exercises to get you started and after this routine; you can read different types for scale charts. There are only five basic shapes that suit all guitar players. There are five very important keys for guitar C, G, D, A, E. Minor Pentatonic is king of all the improvisation of the guitar. It is necessary to learn all position of blues scale, and common extended forms.

Major scales Shape used to study CAGED scale system. It is one of the important systems where one can used any major scale mode Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian. Chromatic Scales contains 12 possible pitches before reaching back at starting note name an octave higher. It is necessary to learn 7 essential 3 notes per string that have major scale forms. There used to be basic fingering for many common scales. Here Guitar Codex is program that have scale finder, arpeggio finder and used to have chord-naming function. There is chord-naming function, which is an online program in a scale finder.

Guitar Scales include different chords in the Scales: C, C#/DB, D#/EB, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, A, A#/Bb, B. There are many Scales on which Guitar works such as Major Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor(Ascending), Melodic Minor(Descending), Chromatic, Whole tone, Pentatonic Major, Pentatonic Minor, Pentatonic Blues, Pentatonic Neutral, Octatonic Neutral, Octatonic(H-W), Octatonic(H-W), Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Lydian Augmented, Lydian Minor, Lydian Diminished, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, Bebop Major, Bebop Minor, Bebop Dominant, Bebop Half Diminished, Blues Half Diminished, Blues Variation 1, Blues Variation 2, Blues Variation 3, Major Blue Scales, Dominant Pentatonic, Chinese 2, Hirajoshi 2, Iwato, Japanese,(in sen), Kumoi 2, Pelog 2, Locrian 6, Ionian #5, Dorian #4, Phrygian Major, Lydian #2, Ultralocrai, Algerian, Altered, Arabian(a), Arabian(b), Augmented, Auxiliary Diminished, Auxiliary Diminished, Auxiliary Augmented, Auxiliary Diminished Blues, Balinese, Blues, Byzantine, Chinese, Chinese Mongolian, Diatonic, Diminished, Diminished Half, Diminished Whole Tone, Dominant 7th, Double Harmonic, Egyptian, Eight Tone Spanish, Enigmatic, Ethiopian(A raray), Ethiopian( Geez & Ezel), Half Diminished( Locrian) , Half Diminished $2( Locrian $2) Hawaiian, Hindu, Hindustan, Hirajoshi, Hungarian Gypsy, Hungarian Gypsy, Hungarian Gypsy Persian, Japanese (A).

For all guitar lovers, it is very easy to find out more information on the web sites like www. All-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php, if you visit this page, you will see different Tabs on the upper side Guitar Chords, Guitar Scales, Chord Progression, Glossary, Songs, Arpeggio, Miss, Chord name, reverse scales, metronome, forum, tuner, jam, links, video lesson, chord to scale, scales to chords, licks lessons.

In short, there are different kinds of Guitar Scales from A to E, If you went on this site, In the middle portion to the left you will find FULL the pattern Root note, Pattern Chords, Scales,



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Playing the Touch Guitar

Posted on 16 January 2009. Tags: , ,

ddbunker asked:


I’ve had lot’s of request many from my Touch Guitar group of players to put up some information shorts on things you can do on the Touch Guitar. I will put up numerous of these over time, also I will display the Dave Bunker Touch Guitar method book, coming soon

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