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 hits off their breakout record Dookie & it's the song that got me into Green Day and pop punk at large. The good news is, this song is actually quite simple. There's only 2 sections to it: the verse & the chorus. But since that's all there is, I went ahead and covered the guitar solo in here for you too :)

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Chapters:

0:00​ - Intro

1:37​ - What You Need To Know

2:09​ - Tune Your Guitar Down 1/2 Step

3:40​ - The Chords You Need To Know

6:00​ - Download the Tab

6:40​ - The Verse (MAIN RIFF)

15:09​ - Practice the Verse

17:14​ - The Chorus

18:36​ - The Solo

23:11​ - PR...

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 be one of the biggest pains (literally) when you start out playing guitar But if you can build calluses on the tips of your fingers, then it will reduce the pain when your fingers hurt from playing guitar so you can play more.

In today's video I'm going to give you 2 guitar callus builder exercises you can do on acoustic guitar or electric guitar that will help make the rest of the process of learning how to play guitar less painful.

Chapters:

0:00​ - Intro

3:03​ - Where Calluses Come From

3:52​ - The 2 Minute Callus Workout

5:24​ - The 2 Birds 1 Stone Callus Builder

7:26​ - Review & Final tips

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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 down so today we're going to answer the questions "What is alternate picking?", "When do you use alternate picking?", "How do you alternate pick?", "How do I practice alternate picking?", & "What do I do when changing strings and alternate picking?"

Chapters:

0:00​ - Intro

1:21 - What is alternate picking?

2:39 - When do you use alternate picking?

3:10 - How do you do alternate picking?

3:34 - Angle your pick

5:23 - Pick from the wrist

7:07 - How do you practice alternate picking?

9:56 - Alternate picking & scales

12:36 - Review & Final tips

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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 complicated & hard to understand guitar theory stuff. But really it's not. So I break down the whole thing about the circle of fifths for this guitar lesson. And I know that I'm playing electric guitar in the video, but naturally this applies to the acoustic guitar as well.

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 & a lot of guitar players in their playing is being afraid of failing or making mistakes. This fear of failure will cripple your progress & make it MUCH slower to get good at the guitar. It doesn't matter if you're playing electric guitar or acoustic guitar, if you hold yourself back because you're afraid to make a mistake or fail, your guitar playing will suffer. When it comes down to it, everything with learning & playing guitar has to do with your mindset & motivation & what's going on inside your head. By learning to Fail, Ask, Improve as I talk about in this tutorial, you'll get you mindset for guitar success set up to keep you going.

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. Rather than playing a really boring warm up exercise like playing up one finger per fret & back down (BORING) I like to at least use guitar scales as practice exercises to warm up with. Scales at least actually happen in real music & sound a heck of a lot better than those boring 1234 exercises a lot of guitar players use. If you spend a few minutes adding this warm up to the guitar exercises to do every day, it will help you in a lot of different ways. You'll work on your fretting hand technique, your picking technique, your scale knowledge, your fretboard knowledge, music theory, ear training, and more! This is one of the best ways to practice guitar scales for beginners & you can play it...

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.

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.