Guitar Lessons

Left Handed Guitar Players: The Best & Greatest

July 14, 2016
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As you’re learning to play left handed guitar, it’s important to find sources of inspiration from former and current musicians. When you’re a kid learning to play guitar, you fixate on certain musicians and say, “I’m going to be them someday.”

In examining our musical heroes, we find the skills and experience necessary to take our playing to the next level.

Listed below are some of the greatest left-handed guitar players of all time. While most of these names will be at least somewhat familiar, you may just find your few favorite guitarist.

Kids Guitar: Best Reviews and Recommendations

July 12, 2016
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There are many options when it comes to a kids guitar. Getting the right sized guitar for the child or person is very important as it either aides in the success of learning or hinders. There was a story of a dad that signed his son up for violin lessons in the 1st grade, and the teacher was a little puzzled that their arms seemed to be too long for a 1/2 size violin, but too short for the 3/4 size. So, the dad ended up signing up his son for guitar lessons instead and bought him a starter guitar from a dollar store for $29.99. It was a 1/2 size guitar and seem to fit just fine. So, let’s look at a kids guitar. What are some of the popular options?

Types of Guitars (What Types and Kinds Are Available)

July 10, 2016
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When it comes to learning how to play guitar and types of guitars, there are a lot of different questions you might ask yourself.

“What kind of music do I want to play?” or “How long is it going to take for me to be really good?” are two examples that come to mind. But let’s scale that back even further and think about a really basic question you might have.

Just how many different kinds of guitars are there?

If you’re looking to buy a new guitar or just curious about what choices are available, we’ve compiled a list of these guitars so that you’ll know the difference.

Easy Worship Songs to Learn on Guitar

July 8, 2016
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As a beginner guitar player, there are a variety of different ways for you to expand your playing ability. Maybe you want to try out blues guitar or learn a solo from your favorite rock band. There may be some guitarists just starting out who want to learn to play praise and worship, or easy worship songs for their church.

Whatever reasons you may have, we’ve compiled a few easy worship songs that will help you to build a repertoire of songs that you are able to play on demand.

How to Play Blues Guitar

July 7, 2016
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How to play blues guitar is a subject challenging to write about thoroughly-mainly because “The Blues” is felt and how much harder to read it off a page. I mean, if you can’t feel it when it’s played from a music manuscript, how in the world can you “hear it, or feel it” from the words of a written article? But, let’s give it a go. Blues is not so much a style, as it is an experience. That’s why old recordings of greats like Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and many others are not pretty and in tune, or in standard rhythm. They played what they felt and there was no one to tell them it wasn't correct and thank God, right! There’s something about the way those guys thumbed the strings of the guitar and slapped it around, and beat the blues out of it.