If you are one of the many people looking to learn guitar notes, what are you going to do with these notes when you learn them? There is an idea alive and well in alot of people’s heads that if you want to learn how to play the guitar, all you need is to [...]

If you want an easy way to learn guitar chords, the solution is practice. Everyday practice. It is a prickly question for the new guitar player, “when am I going to stop being a newbie?” The answer is gradually. Every day you start again from the get-go. That sounds hard, but over time it [...]

Some people never develop a deep understanding of the acoustic guitar. That does not mean that anybody cannot have fun by just being an amateur guitar player. To learn a few chords and practice the technique of strumming can be very rewarding in spite of the fact that it does not make you a [...]

Here I am back from the Christmas break I didn’t know I was going to have. While I was not updating the blog I took the opportunity to install a script to run a newsletter. I encounter so many links to interesting guitar lessons stuff that I don’t have time to write posts on [...]

I am not going to start bombarding you with products from Amazon, I just thought as I was doing a couple of posts on guitar DVDs and books I may as well give you links to the Amazon pages because they are genuinely interesting. If I was not addicted to collecting fridge magnets I [...]

There are so many tools for learning how to play guitar that you can get on the internet, it makes you wonder whether how to play guitar books have a place in the world of technology. When you used to have to learn to play guitar from a teacher you always had to have [...]

Whatever musical genre you are into, you will need to learn how to play guitar chords. There are varying degrees of focus on learning chords. In rock, country and blues you can get away with learning a few chord shapes to play the I IV V chord progression in all the keys you need [...]

Guitar techniques do not need to be difficult for beginners, in fact it is a great boost for your enthusiasm when you start to master one or two easy guitar techniques. As the left hand and the right hand both need attention when you are a guitar beginner, I thought we could examine some [...]

When you take up the acoustic guitar you want to play songs, right? Maybe to sing some songs around the campfire. Lots of pop songs and folk songs sound good accompanied by the acoustic guitar but a sudden wish to play Spanish guitar songs often takes hold of you. If you can play Spanish [...]

If you are one of the many amateur guitar players who wonders how to connect your guitar to your pc and record your playing, there are several answers, most of them simple. I have posted on Connecting Your Guitar To Your Computer before but a different point of view never hurt anybody. For checking the [...]