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How to Play the Let It Be Solo

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to play the Let It Be guitar solo by The Beatles. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. This is one of my favorite guitar solos for students to learn early on because the scale for it is my fav...
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How To Get Songs Performance Ready Faster

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to get songs performance ready faster. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you about how to make songs sound finished & polished so that they're ready to play for people. Whether it's songs that you're...

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How to Play When I Come Around by Green Day

how to play Apr 17, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to play When I Come Around by Green Day on guitar. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about one of my favorite Green Day songs of all time. When I Come Around is one of Green Day's biggest hi...

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How to Build Calluses For Beginners

playing technique Apr 15, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to build calluses for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about how to build calluses on your fingertips so you can play guitar without your fingers hurting!

Sore guitar fingers can...

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How To Alternate Pick For Beginners

playing technique Apr 10, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to alternate pick for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you & today we're going over alternate picking! This is one of the most crucial picking techniques for any guitar player to get...

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What The Heck Is The Circle Of Fifths?

music theory Apr 08, 2021

What the heck is the circle of fifths? Or is it Circle of 5ths? Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you about one of the music theory things that confused the heck out of me when I was starting out learning guitar.

The Circle of Fifths sounds all c...

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Why You Should Fail At Guitar

mindset & motivation Apr 03, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about why you should fail at guitar in order to get better. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you that will hopefully help learn not to fear failure. One of the things that holds most people back in life ...

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Guitar Warm Up Exercise For Beginners

playing technique Apr 01, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is a guitar warm up exercise for beginners that will warm up your hands and your brain at the same time. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about one of my favorite warm up guitar exercises for beginners....

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How to Easily Play the F Chord on Guitar

playing technique Mar 27, 2021

Today's beginner guitar lesson is about how to easily play the F chord on guitar. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners to help make the F chord easy for you.
 
Most beginners dread the F chord when starting out because you have to barre your f...
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How To Learn a New Guitar Chord Fast & Easy

playing technique Mar 25, 2021

Today's beginner guitar lesson is on how to learn a new guitar chord fast & easy in as little as 6 minutes! I know it kinda sounds crazy, but it doesn't have to take weeks to learn new guitar chords if you follow the method I show you in today's beginner guitar tutorial. Hey guys, Brad Litton from...

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A lot of the advice on what to do when you start learning guitar comes from the thinking "That's how I learned, so everyone must learn that way", but that isn't always the best advice.

I'll help you with 10 kinda counter-intuitive things you should learn on guitar first that will give you the most bang for your buck so that you can go from being a beginner to feeling like a confident guitar player that wows your friends in less time.