I was reading a CNN article about Orianthi Panagaris which reminds us that: “live, you’re reminded that Ori herself is playing lead guitar, and that the searing guitar riffs aren’t courtesy of an anonymous studio musician who’s been hired for his or her chops.” - “Jackson guitarist Orianthi taking spotlight” by Denise Quan, CNN You might not be itching to get out and see the Michael Jackson movie but a guitar player of Oriani’s calibre should ... Read Full Story

If you want to learn how to play a guitar for free, you will find the internet is your biggest source of free guitar lessons. To make the best use of the net you will need to know how to search without wasting too much time. First, make a folder in your bookmarks to keep your guitar lesson links in. You are certain to find some sites that you need to visit more than once, so keep the links all in one place and just separate them into folders like “Videos”, “Theory”, &... Read Full Story

Experienced guitar players will know you can get guitar tabs from a number of tab archives and most will also have songs written in standard musical notation but this mostly applies to popular music genres. If you want some free sheet music for classical, folk, jazz or some exotic style of music, you will need to trawl the archives of free sheet music. Here are some of the best places to get free sheet music: IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library is involved in making a virtual library of all publi... Read Full Story

When we learn how to play guitar our bodies and minds undergo certain changes. After some trial and error plus some advice from a teacher, we know the process of learning a new song, scale or chord. We get to know ourselves so we can make use of our joy in making music. We can make use of the fact that there are certain times of day when our emotions are more willing to accept standing by and watching our bodies spend fifteen minutes practicing scales. The more we get to know the way our bod... Read Full Story

There are some stages you have to go through in learning how to play the guitar. In effect, you need to become a different person. You stop looking at music and playing guitar from the outside and you start to take action. You can be flexible in the order you take these steps in so don’t look at them as progressive stages, just as a basic to-do list. So here are some things you need to know. You need to know the parts of a guitar and what makes a few bits of wood become a musical instru... Read Full Story

There are some stages you have to go through in learning how to play the guitar. In effect, you need to become a different person. You stop looking at music and playing guitar from the outside and you start to take action. You can be flexible in the order you take these steps in so don’t look at them as progressive stages, just as a basic to-do list. So here are some things you need to know. You need to know the parts of a guitar and what makes a few bits of wood become a musical instru... Read Full Story

This article is for beginner guitar players who want to sort out the confusion they feel when they are confronted with guitar tabs. The notes on the guitar tab are not hard to learn once you learn the basic principles involved. Read Full Story

Chords are the basic building blocks of guitar music so beginners really need to bite the bullet and begin to learn how to play them. If you can read music you will have some understanding of the way chords relate to scales and the notes used in the songs you are learning, but it is not necessary for a guitar beginner to know music theory to start playing chords. Read Full Story

The CAGED system is a handy way of helping you to get to know the guitar and guitar music. Many guitarists have found this way of seeing the notes and chords an easy way to begin to understand guitar music and improvisation. The CAGED system is not for raw beginners. You need to know the location on the fretboard of the root notes of the chords C A G E and D. Here is a video explaining the simplicity of using the CAGED system: Here is the first of a series of free lessons on the CAGED syste... Read Full Story

The CAGED system is a handy way of helping you to get to know the guitar and guitar music. Many guitarists have found this way of seeing the notes and chords an easy way to begin to understand guitar music and improvisation. The CAGED system is not for raw beginners. You need to know the location on the fretboard of the root notes of the chords C A G E and D. Here is a video explaining the simplicity of using the CAGED system: Here is the first of a series of free lessons on the CAGED syste... Read Full Story