Category Archives for "Guitar Techniques"

Changing Chords Easily On Guitar

Changing Chords Easily On Guitar Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! Changing quickly and smoothly between guitar chords can seem like a huge challenge when you start out playing guitar.In this video lesson I show you two simple guitar chords that you can play, that are perfect for […]

Basic Strumming Patterns For Guitar

Basic Strumming Patterns For Guitar Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! So, you’ve mastered a few basic open chords on the guitar, from these lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJBlNQDoGg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXkEP66AZqI And you’ve got the basic mechanics of strumming chords cleanly from this lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmNuwwdT5k Now it’s time to work on some strumming patterns 🙂 How do you […]

How To Strum Chords On The Guitar

How To Strum Chords On The Guitar Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! Now that you’ve been through the lessons on holding the guitar, some basic chords to play and how to play chords cleanly, it’s time to learn how to strum a chord properly. In this video lesson […]

How To Play Guitar Chords Cleanly

How To Play Guitar Chords Cleanly Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! When you play chords or single notes, sometimes the notes don’t ring out as clearly as you’d like. There are buzzing noises, and sometimes notes don’t sound out at all. What can you do to fix this? In […]

How To Play 3 Basic Guitar Chords

How To Play 3 Basic Guitar Chords Chords are one of the first things you will learn to play on the guitar. It probably goes without saying, but you can’t play too many songs on the guitar without knowing a few chords at least!In this video lesson I will show you 3 basic chords which […]

How To Play Your First Guitar Chord

How To Play Your First Guitar Chord When you first pick up a guitar, you want to play songs, right? Well, the first thing you need to learn to play songs is some chords! In this video lesson I show you how to play your first guitar chord. Playing chords is the first step to becoming […]

4 Basic Blues Turnarounds

4 Basic Blues Turnarounds The blues turnaround is a great sounding way of adding some interest and variety to your blues guitar rhythm playing. But what is a blues turnaround, I hear you ask? Well, a blues turnaround is a variation on the rhythm part that you can play at the end of a blues chord progression. […]

Do Guitar Facials Really Help?

Do Guitar Facials Really Help? If you ever find that your guitar licks are lacking in feeling or emotion, there could be many different things that cause this. From using the wrong gear, to not knowing what to be practicing. But science has proven that the number one cause of a lack of emotion in your […]

How To Tune Your Guitar

How To Tune Your Guitar Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! You know when you strum a chord sometimes, and it just sounds ‘wrong’ somehow? It could just be that your guitar is out of tune!Being able to tune your guitar is a skill that every guitarist has […]

Picking A Guitar Pick

Picking A Guitar Pick Remember to subscribe for more free lessons – just click the button below! Picking a guitar pick is a very personal thing. Guitar picks (also know as plectrums) come in many different shapes, sizes, thickness and material. How do you know which one to use? I have been through hundreds, if not […]