Welcome to the Free Online Guitar Lessons and Articles site. This is the place to find all the guitar lessons and articles that you need to learn how to play guitar. New lessons, articles, videos, charts, and other materials will be consistently added to this site to create a one stop guitar informational resource. There will also be many reviews to let you know what the best equipment and instruction is. If you would like to submit a written guitar lesson or article for free publication on this site, please use the submission form.

 

Alternate Picking and Economy Picking

Alternate picking and economy picking are constantly contrasted with each other and discussed. Most players want to know which one is better and which one they should focus on, but the answer may not be so simple.

Alternate picking is great for creating steady lines of notes at a firm pace and with the option to accent any one of them. With only alternate picking, you can achieve a nice and level single note output and choose to raise or lower the attack of any of the notes with great control.

September 02 2010 | Video Guitar Lessons

Virtual Guitar Sounds

Increasing software sophistication and hardware capabilities have given us some great options for virtual sound that lets us produce guitar recordings without actually playing guitar. This should not be taken as a threat to guitar players. Even though some very convincing sounds can be produced, the real thing still has overwhelming appeal, and many more detailed aspects of playing cannot be replicated. Instead, virtual sound effects and processors should be examined and used to make better music in any way possible.

July 30 2010 | Guitar Equipment

Designing Sound with the Guitar

Playing the electric guitar involves more sound design than any other instrument. Not only is learning how to play the notes and scales important, but you need to know how to control the sound you are producing as well. This is not something new for instruments; players have always had to be concerned with their tone when playing. However, the electric guitar offers more tonal possibilities than any of these other instruments, and sometimes the sound can be radically changed altogether. This article is going to talk about some ways to control the sound of an electric guitar.

May 01 2010 | Guitar Equipment

How to Teach Uncoordinated Guitar Beginners

Guitar teachers, and music teachers in general will at some point need to teach beginning players who are especially uncoordinated. These students may have trouble starting with the basic open guitar chords, or even simple power chords. So what do you teach them? It is important to remember that guitar technique can be very difficult and unnatural for many people, so you need to start them with things that anyone can do. This article will talk about a few tips for teaching these beginners in a way that lets them play something musical even when they first get started.

April 20 2010 | Guitar Instruction

Teaching Kids How to Play Guitar

Anyone interested in being a guitar instructor should be ready to teach children. The guitar is a popular instrument for kids, and at most music stores, younger children make up a significant part of the student base. Though it may not sound like it at first, teaching kids how to play guitar can actually be more challenging in many regards than teaching adults. This article will go over a few of the issues with children learning the instrument and some tips for how to approach the process.

March 17 2010 | Guitar Instruction

The free online lessons, articles, and reviews on this site will range from a variety of guitar related concepts and styles, including rock, jazz, and classical. There will also be articles on other subjects. The free online guitar lessons found here should be able to help you teach yourself guitar or act as a supplement to private lessons.

 

Although there are enough quality guitar lessons online here to last you for quite a while, this does not mean that guitar teachers are no longer needed. A private instructor can help structure your lessons and show you which information is worth your attention. There are millions of site on the internet offering free guitar lessons, but they might not all have information from professional musicians. The online lessons and articles found here will show you the correct way to learn guitar, and they are all provided free of charge. Beyond that, you will also find the best guitar reviews here, which will tell you where the best instruction is available and where the good equipment is.

 

Instead of relying solely on free guitar lessons online, you should get a private teacher if you can and use the materials here for extra help and to add to your available resources. The guitar chord and scale charts here will come in handy for anyone learning the guitar, and the fretboard charts will be useful as well. Having an instructor can help you organize and internalize these materials and concepts, and will keep you from receiving bad advice that could cause you to form bad habits.

 

The problem with many online guitar lessons is that they may offer conflicting advice to what other lessons found online have said. If you end up listening to the wrong source, you may develop a habit that can cost you years to correct and will greatly limit your playing capabilities. You can be assured that the free guitar lessons found on this site are solid information written by experienced guitar teachers and players, and we will have guitar lesson reviews to point out bad information. Now with our users submitting guitar lessons and articles from around the world, you can expect even more great content than ever, and you can be sure that anything we publish here is worth reading.