Learning to Play a Guitar

Let’s be honest.  Nobody likes to practice scales.  But if you want to be a good guitar player, unfortunately that is the price you have to pay.  If you are not familiar with scales, this video will get you introduced to the concept.  More specifically it will show you how to learn and memorize the [...]

The Complete Illustrated Book of the Acoustic Guitar: Learning to play, Chords, Exercises, Techniques, Guitar history, Famous players, Great guitars The Complete Illustrated Book of the Acoustic Guitar by James Westbrook and Ted Fuller is a nice addition to your accoustic guitar book library, containing great content and numerous illustrations. The book is a comprehensive introduction to [...]

Marty Schwartz comes through again with this great lesson on how to play an east beginner guitar song.  First you will learn basic beginners chords that are used in many songs: G, D, E minor and C.  Then Marty will teach you a cool rythm that you can also apply to many other songs in [...]

Griff Hamlin teaches in the video below how to play Sweet Home Chicago, which is a gereat tune played by Eric Clapton.  He shows you the first 12 bars, and then you can just repeat.  There are many ways to play this tune, and this is just one of them.  This is not a beginner’s [...]

If you like to play guitar solos, you probably like to listen to legendary players like Stevie Ray Vaughan.  What if you could learn a bit of the techniques used by these legendary players?  Well today, I am happy to share with you an introductory lesson from Griff Hamlin that is very popular.  Griff will show [...]