You get musical theory, chord progressions, songs, the whole shebang. The lessons are all connected, adding to the student's knowledge in small, easily digestible installments. The lessons are aimed at the electric guitar student, but if your guitar is acoustic, there's no need to rush out and get an electric, just skip the bits obviously meant exclusively for the electric guitarist. Click here to start


The Six Characteristics Of An Effective Guitar Course:
The author is a professional. Why would you want to learn from an amateur or from someone who can't even play the guitar? Be sure the author of your course is a guitar-playing professional.
The author must be a professional guitar instructor. Nothing takes the place of experience. Express Guitar is based on 30+ years of experience, successfully teaching others how to play the guitar.
The course gets you playing right away. Within minutes.
The course teaches the right way to practice. You see, you play like you practice. So if you're doing it wrong, you'll play it wrong.
The course doesn't depend on "tabs" - the 400-year-old approach to play guitar.
The course teaches you exciting lead guitar techniques including hammer ons, pull offs, bending, sliding harmonic's and flashy leads to blow your audience away. To find out more about htis astonishing guitar learning system, here's a link to sign up for a short email guitar course for free.

There's more than one way to learn to play a guitar free. The one thing they have in common is that they are available on the internet. First of all you need to know the basic things you must learn to be able to play the style of guitar you are interested in.
Do you want to learn to read musical notation, or is the music you want to play available in tab form?
Do you see yourself as an electric guitar player or an acoustic guitarist?
Do you want to learn how to play guitar fingerstyle or using a plectrum?
If you decide you want to play fingerstyle then you need to choose between classical style playing or one of the folk guitar styles like clawhammer.
If you prefer electric guitars, there's a big difference between say, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Ry Cooder.
By answering these questions you will be able to have some knowledge of whether you need to look for guitar tablature, sheet music, chord charts, guitar scales or just song lyrics with chord changes.
Any guitar site you find on the internet that offers something for free is usually also trying to sell something. Sometimes they give you free video lessons as an introduction to their paid guitar course. You will probably be watching any of these free guitar lesson videos you find. Even if they only give you a fraction of a complete lesson you can usually pick up something valuable.
Sometimes you will be offered free software like chord libraries or guitar scale charts. These are often incomplete and just take up space on your hard drive, so try and check first to see if any features are missing from the free software.

Have you ever wanted to be a guitar hero? With the rise of air guitar competitions and the increase in the numbeer of aspiring musicians following the philosophy of "It's not what you are but what you wear", lead guitar players aren't as thick on the ground as they once were. But that doesnt't mean you need to be ashamed of your ambitions to be the front man in a band. There are still wise guitar gurus out there willing to share the secret rituals which will transform you into a lead guitarist.
The video guitar lessons are on lead guitar
techniques: connecting scale patterns, using the entire fretboard for your solo and 3-string box positions.
Here's a short synopsis of the sample lessons from the new lead guitar course which will be released on July 20.
Horizontal fretboard movement
Horizontal movement basically means moving up and down the fretboard. You do this by understanding how scale patterns are related.
Three-string box positions
Box positions are used extensively by blues & rock guitarists. They are simply the 3-string versions of the pentatonic minor patterns.
Connecting scale patterns
The ability to connect scale patterns is the key to being able to achieve total freedom in your solo.
You can check the videos out here.
All 3 videos come from Dan Denley's
new lead course coming out later this
month called, "Lead Guitar Secrets."
Hope you enjoy these videos. Be sure to post
your comments/questions on Dan's blog. Dan is
pretty good about trying to answer as many
questions as he can.

Blues/rock guitar tends to have a characteristic sound to it. Sure there is a style of playing that characterizes blues guitar but a question that often pops up is 'Once I know how to play the STYLE, how do I get that 'sound' out of my amp?'.
Ok, firstly let's look at the aspects of a guitarist's set up that have an effect on the final sound:
Ability of player to play that style.
Choice of guitar (i.e. Electric or acoustic?? Solid body or semi-acoustic, single coil pickups or humbucking pickups??)
Choice of amplifier
Settings on the guitar
Settings on the amplifier
Other miscellaneous items (e.g. strings, effects pedals etc)
So, from this list we can see that there is simply no ONE aspect that will directly change the sound, it's the use of all of these things that point to the final outcome. A nice way of looking at it is to treat all of these aspects as ingredients to the sound recipe. By changing the ingredients or amount of, or order in which they are used you end up changing the final product. Obviously one of the most important of the ingredients is the ability of the player. There is no point in having all of the ingredients to play blues guitar if the player can't actually play blues style guitar.
Let's start with the guitar itself, the best choice of guitar would be a solid body electric guitar such as a Fender Stratocaster, or a Gibson Les Paul, pretty much any solid body electric guitar will do. Once you have selected the guitar let's look at the settings that are to be used on the guitar itself. You will want to select the neck pick up (the pickup that is closest to the neck of the guitar). This pickup gives a more rounded natural sound, often called the rhythm pickup. The on board controls of the guitar (the volume and tone knobs) are also very useful. To achieve a bluesy sound you should slightly roll off some of the tone knob, roll it back to about 7 or 8.

Ok once you have this set up, look at the amplifier. Blues guitarists have a slightly overdriven or distorted sound. To achieve this I want you to make sure that you are plugging the guitar into the 'Hi-gain' input of your amplifier (if you only have one input then use that one. What you need to do next is to turn up your amp gain to a point where the sound coming out is slightly distorted (on most amps this would be just after halfway). If your guitar amp doesn't distort or overdrive then there are other alternatives, you could purchase and use a distortion effect pedal.
Ok, the amplifier's EQ settings??? What do I do with those? Basically you leave all the 'EQ' knobs in the middle (i.e. don't boost or drop any of them). The bluesy sound really comes from having selected the neck pick up and by having the amp slightly distorting.
Courtesy Jamorama - The Ultimate Guitar Learning Kit

Here's a small part of the latest free guitar lesson from Jamorama outlining the advantages of one part of their guitar course.
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