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Get to know the names and functions of the different parts of your guitar.
Learn about the different techniques to tune your guitar including some tuner reviews.
Learn about the fretboard of the guitar
Some tips and advice on what to look out for when choosing your next guitar.
Learn some useful exercises and warm up routines, that will get your fingers into the groove.
Learn the basic chords which will get you on your way to playing a lot of great songs.
Quick and clean chord changes are an important skill every beginner learn.
After you've mastered the basic chords look at these lessons.
An important part of playing, barre chords are chords where your fingers are used to block several strings at a time.
A key element of many styles of rock music. Consist of only the root note of the chord and the fifth, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts distortion.
Learn some Musical Math and some basic introductory concepts around chord progression with scales.
Learn the basics that you should know in order to read tabs and chord maps.
Learn how to construct new chords
Learn how to hold an use a pick correctly and start working on some picking techniques
"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been." - Kevin Eubanks
"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere." - Krist Novoselic
Learn why the notes on the fretboard are arranged as they are
Learn about the Pentatonic Scales, used extensively in Rock music as well as Blues, Jazz and Country music
This scale has a bluesy feel to it but is not only used in Blues Music
Learn how to identify a song's key with the Circle of Fifths.
Get comfortable with some blues licks that you can throw into a solo. It gives it some edge.
Learn how a Capo affects the shape and sounds of chords
Learn how to perform both Hammer-ons and Pull-offs.
Learn the basics of inflections like pull off's, vibrato, sliding, string bending, palm muting and trills.
Start working on your tapping, sweep picking, artificial harmonics, slide guitar, etc.
Need help breaking out of your fixed patterns? Learn more about improvising.