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4 Easy Electric Guitar Songs and How to Play Them

‘Some songs only need one or two fingers to play.’ When I first started playing guitar, finding easy electric guitar songs seemed impossible. I thought all of the bands I listened…

How to Play a Legato Slide on Guitar

Why should I learn how to play a legato slide? The legato slide is one of the first skills every guitarist should learn. Here’s why: It’s easy. It’s used in…

Easy Power Chords Played with One Finger

How to Play Easy Power Chords by Barring

You’re learning to play guitar for the first time. You say to the instructor, ‘Teach me something easy.’ Your instructor says, ‘Sure, just put this finger on this fret, that…

Drop Guitar Tuning

There’s a secret that heavy bands don’t want you to know: many of their best riffs are actually the easiest to play…Drop Guitar Tuning. If you understand how drop guitar…

Alternate Tunings Are for Beginners

For beginning guitarists, alternate tunings are an impregnable enigma. An impregnable wha…? you ask. Exactly. That’s my point. Beginners don’t understand alternate tunings, much less how they work or why…

Zen Guitar Habits for Beginners: Clear Mind from the Start

Building Zen Habits – Having a Clear Mind Use your practice time with the guitar to strengthen your Zen muscles. Every time you touch the guitar, you are developing behaviours…

Fretboard Fundamentals – Understanding the Major Scale

The great thing about the guitar is how visual an instrument it is. Patterns and shapes repeat themselves, making it easier to learn and play. In this article we will…

Metal Guitar, Part 3: The Harmonic Minor Scale and Harmonies

Welcome back to Beginning Metal Guitar. I hope that the techniques shown last month have helped you write better riffs. As we’ve been concentrating so much on rhythm guitar during…

The Top 5 Things You Must Learn When Beginning Guitar

Having been a professional guitar player and teacher for over 30 years now, I have seen many techniques, courses and tips from a variety of teachers and schools. Many of…

Metal Guitar, Part 2: Power Chords, Octaves and Pinch Harmonics

So you’ve been spending the past month building up your palm muting and writing your own riffs, but palm muting isn’t enough to please the metal gods! That’s why this…

Beginning Metal Guitar, Part 1: Palm Muting

Beginners

You finally splashed out the cash on a flying V and have been practicing your best Metallica impressions, but where do you get started to becoming a metal god? Through…

Why Guitarists Should Avoid Tablature

Beginners

Tablature. I loathe it. As far as I am aware, the guitar is the only instrument that offers the system. As a professional guitar teacher and performer I tell my…

Beginning Guitar – to Learn Rhythm, or Lead?

Beginners

After 25 years playing guitar, I should be agnostic on this. I should tell you they are both very valuable, and both will contribute to your technique and development. I…

A Personal Guitar Journey

Beginners

Hello! I’m Amanda. I’m 25, and live in Columbia, SC. I wanted to share with you my thoughts and also some tips for beginner players. I’ve recently celebrated my 3rd year…

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