I always tell beginners to invest in a proper guitar learning system or a real live teacher if possible, rather than searching for free lessons from YouTube. There is some logic behind this:
Mainly, it’s a lot more conducive to learning to have a system to follow. With paid lessons such as Jamorama and JamPlay you [...]
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States of America.
Made popular by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Joe Satriani, you too can learn it and hold your head patirotically high! Enjoy the long sustaining notes and savour the elegance of the melody.
Here’s a free lesson on how to play The Star-Spangled Banner [...]
Here’s an acoustic version of “She Talks to Angels”, a song by The Black Crowes from their 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker.
Extremely popular song back in the 90s, the song appears to be about a woman who lost a child (one of the “angels” of the title) and who now copes with [...]
AC/DC’s Back In Black appears as the first song on the B side of the album, also entitled Back In Black and released in 1980.
Famous for the opening guitar riff played by Angus Young, the song is in fact a tribute to their ex-singer and friend Bon Scott.
Scott’s replacement Brian Johnson who wrote the lyrics, [...]
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“The Trooper” is a song written by Iron Maiden bass player Steve Harris. It’s a cracking song and in my book goes down as a great song for beginners to learn.
It’s generally considered by Maiden fans as one of their best songs and when they perform it live lead singer Bruce Dickinson often wields [...]
One of the most important skills in learning to play guitar is to become intimately familiar with the neck of your guitar.
Hand in hand with becoming familiar with the notes on the neck of the guitar goes learning how to read guitar tabs. Guitar tabs represent a kind of short hand which is unique to [...]
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Do you already know how to strum a few major chords on the guitar?
If you know G, C and D you are ready to make music, some of the top songwriters of the last 40 years have built their entire careers around transitioning between those three chords.
Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry are among the performers [...]
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