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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 first finger across the first fret of your first & second strings. It's a pain when you're starting out. But it is an essential guitar chord for you get be able to play as you learn to play guitar whether you're on an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. So in today's lesson I'm going to show you some technique tricks I use with students to make playing F easier plus I'll show you 8 different ways to play the F major chord when you're starting out.

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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 SimpleGuitar.com here with a guitar lesson for beginners that will help you learn guitar chords fast.

Whether you're just starting to learn how to play guitar or you've been playing for awhile, you're going to need a fast & easy way to learn new guitar chords as you come upon them. This method will take any guitar chord & make it an easy guitar chord to learn for you.

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How to Play Blackbird on Guitar For Beginners

how to play Mar 20, 2021

Today's beginner guitar lesson is about how to play Blackbird on guitar for beginners! This is one of my favorite songs & is the song that inspired me to play guitar in the first place. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners about one of the best acoustic songs to learn on guitar ever.

In this Blackbird guitar tutorial I'll show you the fingerpicking that I first learned for this song & I'll show you the fingerpicking that Paul McCartney uses when he plays Blackbird. This is one of the best fingerpicking songs to start out with because you only need your first finger & thumb to do the fingerpicking. So that makes it a great way to start fingerpicking for beginners. Also, a quick note about this Blackbird guitar lesson is that even though this song is normally played on an acoustic guitar, it does sound excellent on a clean electric guitar, too. So whatever kind of guitar you're using to learn guitar, you can play this awesome fin...

What Are Arpeggios on Guitar For Beginners?

music theory Mar 18, 2021

Today's beginner guitar lesson is about what are arpeggios on guitar for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners for you on some essential guitar theory. When I was teaching myself guitar, I had no clue what guitar arpeggios were. I was overwhelmed enough with learning chords and scales that it just sounded like something really complicated that I didn't understand. And that's after having piano lessons for a few years, too. So when I finally learned that arpeggios on guitar were as simple as picking out the individual notes of chords (that's what it means when you see something that says to arpeggiate chords) I was shocked. Then as I've gotten better and learned how arpeggios work all over the fret board, it makes learning how to play guitar so much better.

This is actually one of the main things most guitar players don't understand enough. When you work on applying the music theory of arpeggios on guitar by learning sing...

How to do Palm Muting on Guitar for Beginners

playing technique Mar 13, 2021

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to do palm muting on guitar for beginners! Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you all about how to palm mute on guitar for beginners. This awesome sounding technique is going to give you more sonic options for your playing so that everything you play doesn't always sound the same. This will enhance how you sound when you play guitar & add some variety to your playing as you learn guitar. Palm muting is an essential rhythm guitar technique and can be used on either acoustic guitar or electric guitar for any style of music. So have fun with the palm muting, I hope this guitar tutorial & guitar tips and tricks makes it simple for you as you learn how to play guitar!

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - What is palm muting? And how to do it

2:02 - Palm muting on electric close up

4:29 - Palm muting on acoustic close up

5:50 - Palm muting open chords

6:11 - Palm muting power chords

6...

How to Play All The Small Things by Blink-182 on Guitar For Beginners

how to play Mar 11, 2021

Today's lesson is about how to play All the Small Things by Blink 182 on guitar for beginners. This is an excellent easy song for anybody to learn even if it's your first day playing guitar! Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. If you liked my other video on how to play The Middle by Jimmy Eat World, then you'll dig this awesome beginner guitar song, too. In this guitar lesson for beginners we're going to break down the song into a simplified version using power chords in drop d tuning so you can play the whole song with one finger.

You can pick up the cheat sheet for this song by going to http://www.SimpleGuitar.com/smallthings & use it to follow along.

As a guitar teacher, my favorite thing to do is start students out with playing full songs on guitar with these drop d tuning power chords on acoustic guitar and electric guitar. It makes it easy & fun to learn guitar when you can play easy guitar songs like this pop pu...

Do This When You Don't Feel Like Practicing Guitar

mindset & motivation Mar 06, 2021

Do this when you don't feel like practicing guitar! Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another quick guitar lesson for beginners. Today I'm sharing a story with you from my day that will help you in times that you don't feel like practicing guitar.

Learning how to play guitar only works if you do the practice that you need to, but let's be honest...There are days that you just don't feel like practicing. So today's guitar lesson tip is about a shift in your mindset that will make it easier to practice on the days that you don't feel like doing it. Whether you play acoustic guitar or electric guitar, getting your mindset and motivation in the right place will help you learn guitar faster.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:29 - My story about not wanting to wake up

1:22 - You never regret doing it, you regret NOT doing it

3:18 - Review & Wrap Up

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How to Play Walkaways by Counting Crows

how to play Mar 04, 2021

Today's guitar lesson is about how to play Walkaways by Counting Crows! I know these guys are most famous for their song Mr. Jones, but this is one of my very favorite acoustic guitar songs & it's also really short & pretty easy to get down. So I'm going to walk you through what guitar chords you need, the strumming pattern, & the cool intro lick. Pick up the FREE tab for this song by going to http://www.SimpleGuitar.com/walkaways so you can follow along!

This song has a very unusual structure. It's only an intro and a verse. That's it. So the entire song clocks in around 1 minute 20 seconds, but that doesn't make it any less of an awesome song for you to learn on guitar. This guitar tutorial for beginners will teach you this awesome easy song to play on guitar whether you're a beginner or more advanced guitar player.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:48 - Get the tab for free!

1:07 - Overview

1:56 - How to play the G chord

2:31 - How to play the D chord

2:58 - How to play the A...

How Tied Notes Work When Strumming - Guitar Strumming Patterns

playing technique Feb 27, 2021

How tied notes work when strumming is a lesson that every beginner guitar player needs to know. Hey rock stars, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another free beginner guitar lesson for you. Today I'm going to break down how to tie two notes together when playing a strum pattern. Even though I'm doing this on an acoustic guitar in the video, this of course applies on electric guitar as well. One of the first guitar lessons for beginners that most guitar players go through is how to strum a guitar & learning guitar strum patterns for beginners. But over the years of being a guitar teacher & helping students learn guitar & play guitar, tied strums always seems to be somewhere that people get hung up on. Strumming guitar well & being able to effortlessly play tied notes is essential when learning how to play guitar. So today's tied strumming tutorial will help you by breaking down strumming tips for guitar that will make playing tied notes when strumming simple & easy for you....

The Worst Advice Ever For Guitar Players

mindset & motivation Feb 25, 2021

The worst advice ever for guitar players is to not learn other guitar players songs, solos, or licks! Hey rock stars, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another free guitar lesson for beginners here for you. Believe it or not, this is actual advice that I either hear people giving out, or bragging about their own approach to learning how to play guitar. But I think this is terrible advice and no guitar teacher or guitar player should ever encourage people to NOT learn how to play guitar solos, songs, or licks by other people. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend you go check out Victor Wooten's TED Talk 'Music as a Language'. In it, he talks about his experience of learning music when he was young & how learning music is more like learning a language than it is learning math or science. When you approach learning guitar this way, then learning solos & songs by your favorite guitar players is more like learning their vocabulary that they use to speak. Could you imagine ...

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