Guitar Accelerator Blog: Play Guitar - Electric and Acoustic Guitar Lessons
You’ve probably seen the chord symbol D sus 4 in many popular guitar songs. But what does this really mean? Let’s start by looking at what a chord really is.
Key Chords
Key Chords app generates guitar chord progressions automatically. Use it free online, or get the app for Mac, Windows or iOS (iPad) - Click on a chord to preview how it sounds. - Drag and drop to arrange the chord progression - Tweak the settings to control the playback speed Or role the dice and Key Chords will automatically generate a nice sounding progression. Select a Key: Select a key and choose a the major or minor scale.
Speed exercises for
I've used these myself, and have found them to be quite amazing, both in strengthening your fingers and in training your mind. If you look at the patterns, they represent the three patterns that most scales are composed of: Half step -whole step, whole step - half step, whole step - whole step. If you get fast enough at playing it, people will worship you. If male, your penis will be enlarged, if female, your breasts will grow a size. Speed is everything in guitar. Okay, enough with the testosterone rant.
Bluegrass Guitar Lesson: Scale & Warmup Exercises
Scale & Warmup Exercises by Bert Casey is a free lesson for bluegrass guitar. These exercises are intended to improve your flatpicking skills. We'll first cover a basic G scale and then work on some alternate picking exercises that will help build up your right hand speed. After you have finished working with these exercises, try moving on to our Speed & Finger Exercises video lesson by Curtis Jones. Most lead bluegrass guitar playing or flatpicking is based on the G scale.
Top 50 Youtube Guitar Channels
The Top 50 Youtube Guitar Channels covers lessons, magazines, manufacturers, guitar stores, reviews, guitarists, and pretty much everything guitar centric. All of the channels below had reached at least 2 million total views by March of 2012. Our focus was on channels producing high quality guitar videos at regular intervals.
83 Jam Tracks For Guitar
Download all the free jam tracks now! A lot of them anyway - 83 of the jam tracks for guitar players are available here on the one page. If you want more information on each track then go to the page that the jam track is from for music theory and other information. Taken from the Blues Guitar Jam Tracks page: 01 Slow Blues In A mp3 wma 02 E Shuffle mp3 wma 03 A Straight mp3 wma 04 Eb Slow Blues (E if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 05 Ab Shuffle (A if you play gutar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 06 G Medium Blues mp3 wma 07 E Fast Shuffle mp3 wma 08 A Medium Blues Shuffle mp3 wma 09 A Medium Blues Shuffle Quick Change mp3 wma 10 Eb Straight Ahead Blues (E if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 11 B Slow Blues (C if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma
Free Guitar Lessons - Lesson Index
Complete list of lessons and pages on this site. Related YouTube videos will have an index number in the name of the video - so just look for that number below and you should find everything ok :) Or you could use the seach box above, but many times a big list like this seems to be easier! Quick Skip to Prefix Anchors Just click on the prefix below and it will zoom you down the page to that area!
Guitar Lesson: Blues Note Riffs
Blues Note Riffs is a free video lesson that will teach you a few standard riffs using the blues scale. We'll learn a lick and then learn other places on the neck where we can play it. In the video we will use the audio jam track "Am blues", which is track 4, from the Let's Jam! Blues and Rock CD.
