Learn Guitar Lessons Online

best website for guitar lessons online?

I am wanting to learn how to play the guitar but there are no guitar teachers in the area so I am thinking about learning online. Are there any GOOD free online websites that teach people how to play the guitar? Step – By – Step, diagrams, easy to follow instructions would be appreciated or videos that are easy to follow.

Hello there,

You’re in luck. It is a lot easier to learn to play these days compared to when I learned (shortly after the dark ages). There is a lot of good instructional material available on the internet. Here are some examples.

Don’t know how much you have learned so far, so I will start at the beginning. Here is a link to a video lesson at Youtube. This guy has a series of 12 lessons available there at Youtube. You can find the other lessons in the related videos section. He covers the basics very well. You can learn a lot from him. He uses an electric in the videos, but most of the material translates well to the acoustic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxhxIV0I5T8&feature=related

Next is an article about how to read tabs. The more common way of writing guitar music these days is in what is called tab

http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/lessons/the-basics/how-to-read-guitar-tab/

Here is a link to a chord chart. It is several pages long. You can look up how to finger various chords with this. Download this PDF file to your computer. It comes in handy when you need to look up a chord.

http://www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/notes2/ultimate11.shtml

When you are ready to start learning some songs, you can search for the tabs. Just Google the name of the song and the word tabs. A common site you will see with guitar tabs is 911 Tabs. There are many, many others. Also, at Youtube search the song name and the words lesson or how to play. There are a great many good video lessons on songs there

I suggest you try working in some songs into your practice routine fairly quickly. One, that makes practice more fun. It is more fun to play songs than finger exercises. Second, trying to play songs gives you a better feel of how all the stuff you are learning fits into playing. Don’t go nuts trying to find the easiest song to start with. Pick any song you like. Add a few bars of that song to your practice session. Just play that riff from the song over and over. Then for the next practice session add a few more bars of the song. Play the previous riff and the new riff over and over. Repeat the process with each practice session. Soon you will have your first song down. You really do need to learn the basics of how to play (like that guy covers in his video lessons), but trying to play songs help put those lessons into perspective. You won’t have to ask yourself why you have to learn all this boring stuff, because you will have already seen the answer (you need it to play songs well).

Later,

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