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A Minor 2 Guitar Chord Finger Position
5 Easy A Minor Chord Variations on Guitar (Finger Charts)

5 Easy A Minor Chord Variations on Guitar (Finger Charts)

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The A minor guitar chord is a fundamental chord to master. You will certainly work with this chord a number of songs, so perfecting it is important if you wish to play your favorite songs on the guitar.

In this post, I will illustrate a few ways to play the Am chord in case you're a newbie. You're also going to discover more complicated variations of the A minor guitar chord at the bottom of the lesson, including the barre chord version.

We should start off with some music theory concerning the A minor guitar chord. ...

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A Major 3 Guitar Chord Finger Position
5 Easy A Major Guitar Chords (with Charts & Fingerings)

5 Easy A Major Guitar Chords (with Charts & Fingerings)

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The A major guitar chord is a pretty important chord to master. You will certainly make use of this particular chord in a great many songs, and thus perfecting it is vital to be able to play your favorite songs on the instrument.

In this post, I will illustrate a few ways to play the A major chord in case you're a beginner. Furthermore, you will discover more challenging voicings of the A major guitar chord at the end of the post, along with the barre chord version.

We need to get started with some easy music theory about the A major guitar chord. ...

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G Minor 2 Guitar Chord Finger Position
4 Simple G Minor Guitar Chord Shapes (with Charts)

4 Simple G Minor Guitar Chord Shapes (with Charts)

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The Gm chord on the guitar is an important chord to master. You will use this particular chord in a great many songs, so learning it well is essential if you desire to play your favorite songs on the instrument.

In this post, I will illustrate a few ways to tackle the Gm chord in case you're a new guitar student. Additionally, you will discover more challenging voicings of the Gm guitar chord at the bottom of the post, as well as the barre chord version.

We need to start out with some simple music theory concerning the Gm guitar chord.

Chords consist of 3 musical notes, meaning that you need to play 3 notes to form the Gm chord. All these notes are derived from the Gm scale. ...

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B Major 2 Guitar Chord Finger Position
4 Simple B Major Chord Alternatives (Guitar Finger Charts)

4 Simple B Major Chord Alternatives (Guitar Finger Charts)

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The B major chord on the guitar is a critical chord to learn. You will certainly use this specific chord a number of songs, which means that perfecting it is necessary to be able to play your favorite songs on the guitar.

In this post, I will teach you a few ways to learn the B major chord if you're a new guitar student. You're also going to discover more complicated voicings of the B major guitar chord towards the end of the lesson, including the barre chord version.

Let's start off with some simple music theory about the B major guitar chord.

Chords are made up of 3 notes, meaning that you must play three notes in order to form the B major chord. All these notes are derived from the B major scale. ...

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Awesome rock guitar riffs you NEED to learn

Awesome rock guitar riffs you NEED to learn

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As a beginner guitar player, listening to and attempting to reproduce famous and memorable guitar riffs that you've heard over the course of your life is one of the best ways to find some motivation. Below, we've compiled a concise list of some of the most catchy guitar riffs in rock n' roll history, which you can try to reproduce for fun.

While these riffs sound best if you've got an electric guitar set, complete with an overdrive and distortion pedals, an acoustic guitar will still get the job done.

If you want even more riffs, check out TheGuitarLesson.com's list of 55 riffs.

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4 easy 12 bar blues chord progressions

4 easy 12 bar blues chord progressions

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Blues is one of my favorite musical genres, in part, because it is very easy to teach to beginners. Even a guitar newbie can learn and play basic blues at an early stage.

You will need a lot of practice to play like BB King, but playing basic blues progressions are easy.

If you learn a few open position 7th chords, you can play the blues. The 12 bar blues to be more exact.

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8 most popular guitar chords in pop music

8 most popular guitar chords in pop music

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Before you start learning to play the guitar, you don't really know what you're listening to.

I don't mean this in a bad way. Most people listen to music, the have their favorite songs that they can sing by heart and hum in the shower.

But as you learn to play guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, you will naturally want to learn how to play your favorite songs.

This is probably the stage you are at right now, and I've got good news for you.

Using a handful (OK, 2 handfuls) of guitar chords, you can play hundreds, if not thousands of really popular guitar songs. ...

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15 great tips for teaching yourself guitar

15 great tips for teaching yourself guitar

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Teaching yourself to play guitar is a challenge, there is no doubt about it.

Would it be easier with a guitar teacher? Maybe, but it would cost a small fortune to pay for the recommended 2 lessons per week.

If you've decided that you will learn go play guitar by yourself, here are 15 very useful tips you need to take to heart.

Tip 1: Sign up for QUALITY online lessons

Back in the day when I taught myself to play guitar (around the year 2000), the internet was not what it is nowadays.

All we had back then were guitar books, an occasional VHS instructional tape, and our ears.

Nowadays, online video guitar lessons are everywhere you look (or search). Some of them are great, some of them are bad.

You will be tempted to learn guitar for free using YouTube videos. While some of the lessons you can find on YouTube are great, there is an inherent problem with learning from YouTube.

You need a structured way of learning every guitar skill, where each lesson build on another.

YouTube cannot provide this.

Great sites that provide structured beginner guitar courses are: ...

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Top 20 acoustic guitar tabs - Songs for beginners

Top 20 acoustic guitar tabs - Songs for beginners

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When I start teaching a total beginner how to play guitar, I am always thankful that we have tabs to make things easier.

Guitar tablature (tabs) makes learning songs so much faster and simpler than having to read standard notation.

Do you doubt me?

Let's prove it! Here are the tabs to 20 acoustic songs which are super popular, yet easy to learn and play on guitar.

Reading guitar tablature

If you don't use tabs yet to learn songs, you're really missing out. You can find the tablature to basically any song ever written. Some good sites to get tabs are:

At first, tabs may look like a bunch of numbers on lines. Well, technically they are.

But after you learn how to read guitar tabs, you'll realize how logical it all is. Here is an amazing video on deciphering tablature:

Now it's time to get to the real meat of this post, the song tablature.

As promised, here are the beginner acoustic guitar tabs to 20 popular songs. ...

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