Beginning guitarists tend to put more attention to the fretting hand / fingers and forget that the other hand needs practicing as well. While it is important to play the notes / chords accurately it is also important to produce a good quality of notes or chords by developing the right hand (for right handed guitarists) techniques.
There are some ways to strike your guitar strings but the most two important are strumming and picking techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

An arpeggio is simply the notes of any given chord played or sung in succession rather than simultaneously. You can play every chord as an arpeggio just by playing one note at a time, in any order (arpeggiated picking). Read the rest of this entry »

Guitar tapping technique is very popular amongst electric guitar players. Whether you play the guitar with heavy distortion or just use the clean sound you can always find the benefit of this technique. Some people prefer holding the pick with their thumb and index fingers and do the tapping with the mid finger while others might feel they have better control doing it with the index finger. There is really no right and wrong about this, it’s all about preference. But like anything else guitar tapping really takes practice and patience to master. This technique basically implements the hammer on and pull off together. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello guys, welcome back to the Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. I believe you have downloaded or watched the Blues Guitar Lesson provided by Griff Hamlin and some of you might find difficulties in bending the strings. Here are some tips to help you bend the strings easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, welcome back to my blog! Today we are going to learn an easy song from the Beatles called ‘In My Life’. I used to learn the guitar chords from their songs a lot during my initial guitar journey. Here we go! Read the rest of this entry »