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Fingerpicking, or what is now known as “finger style guitar” (and boy, we have to come up with alternative names these days for everything in order to make them more marketable, don’t we?)(get it? “alternative” is a pun, you see, because we couldn’t sell music to people unless we gave it a genre title that [...]

Playing the same old chords on every song can get pretty tiring and can leave a music career stale in a heartbeat. If you play G – C – D on every song without trying to even embellish it a little bit with interesting chordal work the audience will probably get bored with your guitar [...]

This lesson is the video accompaniment to the minor key chord progressions PDF tutorial available in the theory section. It shows how to apply the minor key chord progressions on the guitar. These minor keys may take a little longer to get used to, but I think that very quickly you will be up and [...]

Having flourished famously during the period from 16th century until 19th century, the Spanish guitar underwent various modifications repeatedly and gained popularity ranging from Spain to the whole nation of Europe and then to the whole world. The wide space between adjacent strings in Spanish guitar allows you to explore a world full of diverse [...]

Okay, this week we take a little break from chord theory (kindasorta) and get into some song analysis, cleverly disguised as “Songs For Beginners.” We’ll take the easiest song I know and learn to play it. Not only is it a song most of you know – it’s also probably a song most of you [...]

Lest you think that only Weird Al Yankovich makes a living from taking someone else’s melody and writing new lyrics to it, let me offer you more examples from history: Love Me Tender, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, The Star Spangled Banner, and today’s lesson, What Child Is This, which comes to us by way [...]

Guitar Chord Chart for Drop D Tuning As you learn to play rock guitar, a guitar chord chart can come in handy. It's pretty easy to find charts of chords in standard tuning, but when you need to know how to play chords in a “Drop D” tuning, it gets a little tougher to find [...]

Tabs tell you how a song is played in guitar. Reading tabs is easy, you won't have to go through this lesson twice. Guitars usually have six strings (there are 7 string and 12 string guitars also, we'll ignore them now). The first thing you have to know is the name of the six strings. [...]

Here are two different ways to play the F chord without having to make a bar (or barre). Most guitar learners have trouble with the F chord when they come across it. The bar across the first fret is very difficult to make without first developing good technique and finger strength. But the F chord [...]

You are all probably aware (especially since I tend to say things over and over (and over) again) that my first guitar was a twelve-string guitar – specifically an Ibanez, which I re-strung to play left-handed. I didn’t know a thing about why it had twelve strings; I just wanted something that was different than [...]