Hello, thank you for visiting the Beginner Guitar Lessons Blog! If you ask me how to play lead guitar my answer is you have to learn the guitar scales. Why? Because solos and guitar riffs are built based on the guitar scales. One of the easiest guitar scales you can learn is the pentatonic scale. Read the rest of this entry »
As a beginner you will be discouraged by many things, from learning how to place your fingers on the guitar fretboard correctly, memorizing the chords, squeezing the guitar strings just enough to let them sound without being muffled or creating unnecessary buzzes and at the same time saving your fretting fingers from sore. Read the rest of this entry »
I remember during my early days with guitar how to play notes without making mistakes became the biggest mystery for me. By that time I had no clue how come those guitar gods could confidently ran their fingers along the fretboard and made no mistakes at all. Why did any single fret they touched sound good in their fingers? They could even play some cool riffs or licks without looking at their fingers at all …. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome back to the Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. Today I am posting some guitar capo installation pictures which hopefully can explain better than words (yes, English is not my first language, sometimes just writing a 400 word blog post took me hours ….). Read the rest of this entry »
Good Day Folks! I assume now you know how to tune a guitar after reading my previous posts in this Beginner Guitar Lessons Blog. Guitar tuning is not difficult and it’s not a sky rocket science either. Now let us see the notes assignment on the guitar fretboard. Just like piano, guitar uses twelve notes all over the fretboard. Each fret equals to a Half Step Note (a.k.a. semitone). Two consecutive frets equal to one Whole Step Note or a Tone. Read the rest of this entry »
