Beginner’s Lesson – 7 (Minor Scale)

With the blues scale and finger picking basics behind us, it is time to learn another scale shape. The minor scale. It’s just a little bit more complicated than the blues scale, but not too bad. Just watch the video and you’ll get it quickly. Remember to practice!
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Beginner Lesson – 6 (Fingerpicking)

Now that you are blazing away with your blues scale, let’s change pace just a little bit and dive into finger picking. For this lesson we won’t use a pick and we will just use our fingers. Have you ever heard of Derek Trucks? He plays in some guy named Clapton’s band and he [...]

Beginner Lesson – 5 (Blues Scale)

Part five in our continuing Beginner’s Lessons focuses on the blues scale. The blues scale, as well as the minor pentatonic scales, are really great and easy ways to get you into soloing quickly. Make sure you learn the scale patterns, fingerings, and be able to shift smoothly between the notes. Once you have it [...]

Beginner Lesson – 4

Here’s the next beginner lesson in our series. This lesson focuses on strumming. I hope you are learning and practicing better than ever!!
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Beginner Lesson – 3

Lesson 3 in our series. Enjoy.
-Intro to Chords
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Beginner Lesson – 2

Here’s the next video in the series. Enjoy!
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Great Beginner’s Lessons

Here are some really good beginner’s guitar lessons for all those people out there who are just starting to play the guitar. Have a look at them and see how you like them. Remember though, that you can watch the best videos and buy the best teaching products, but you will not get any [...]

Hey There Delilah – Lesson

Yes you’ve all heard it on the radio….now learn how to play it! Keep playing.
Lesson- Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s

Karma Police – RadioHead Lesson

I’ve received many requests to post a good Karma Police lesson and after scouring YouTube (the best guitar learning tool ever!!…. hint: see earlier post) for hours I have found a lesson by John Russo that is great at breaking this song down for beginners like me. I’ve included the lyrics also. [...]

Jamorama Reviewed…

If you have looked online for guitar lessons at all then you have probably run across the “Jamorama” guitar learning package. The first thing you see on the sites sales page is:
WHO ELSE Wants To Learn To Play Guitar Step-By-Step Like The Eagles, Green Day, Pink Floyd, Guns ‘n Roses, Jimi Hendrix, [...]