Learning Guitar Scales has undoubtedly been a problem of every guitarist, as much as a question in itself as to whether or not it’s worth doing it. While it’s true that scales will help you speed up your guitar playing, it’s also unreliable as far as musical theory goes. You don’t really learn any music Read the Rest…
This free online guitar lesson will deal with a little bit more advanced and detailed techniques. Namely the picados and alzapua. Both of these techniques are characteristic to flamenco guitar and both are really hard to master. As they stand they are at the complete opposite of one another, the picado is alternate index and Read the Rest…
Most free acoustic guitar lessons contain redundant information regarding exercises and chord patterns you should practice, but they don’t really give away any important information. The reason is that you can already find this stuff everywhere. However it is easy to establish what is important. The division is usually between left hand technique and right Read the Rest…
In effect every guitar picking techniques should develop themselves, but generally people are too lazy for that so there are some standard techniques available. The big problem with learning these techniques is that unless someone who already knows them correctly is teaching you, you will most certainly learn them defectively. How does that happen ? Read the Rest…
The best way to study classical guitar is to take a song and discuss about it. I will not go into such details as it there are too many variations to discuss reasonably in an article. Instead I will speak about some basic principles regarding how to study and understand classical music. Technique-wise classical guitar Read the Rest…
As with all flamenco guitar lessons, we shall take a look at the techniques and genres that make flamenco unique and enjoyable. I feel it is very important to have at least some degree of comfort with every technique as this will broaden the range of things you can play. The rasguedos are the most Read the Rest…
Generally it is harder to play the guitar with your fingers than it is with a pick. The reason for this is the complex movement involving guitar finger picking when compared to the simple motions when using a pick. Granted, there are variations that can become harder with the pick then they are for fingerpicking Read the Rest…
Beginner guitar lessons usually tell you to learn specific chords, which are called the major chords, then the minor chords and so on and so forth, but they never explain why these chords are important and why you should learn them first. These beginner guitar lessons will emphasize the boring part of music: training, but Read the Rest…
Spanish music is well known around the world for it’s exquisite beats and complex dance. While this is true often spanish music is mistaken with flamenco music. Those who do spanish guitar lessons make it clear that flamenco is just regional folk music. There are many differences between spanish music and flamenco. While flamenco was Read the Rest…
Playing a solo on the guitar requires quite a little bit of knowledge and technique. The basics in this solo lesson are that you have to know the key in which you are playing, have an idea of how you want the thing to sound as a whole and you must always think ahead in Read the Rest…