The first major scale you should learn on guitar is not the standard box shape major scale or the three note per string major scale. Instead, I propose that you first learn single string major scales & how to play them on all your strings. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. Today we're going to actually apply the major scale to the guitar by playing it on single strings. This way you're really going to get to see & understand the structure of the major scale & get the pattern for it under your fingers & in your ears. Just like with every other guitar tutorial I do, you can play this on both acoustic guitar & electric guitar.

"What scale should I learn first on guitar?" is a common question. I think the single string major scale on guitar is one of the easiest guitar scales for beginners to get down easily. So I hope that this major scale guitar lesson & my other guitar tips and tricks will make beginner guitar scales easy fo...

Today I'm going to show you some advice I got from my dad that will help you know how to learn from EVERY guitar player you meet, see, or hear. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson on mindset and motivation for you. Actually, this guitar mindset tutorial will help you whether you're a beginner or not! Some of the best advice I've ever gotten about how to play guitar came from my dad years ago. He told me, "You can learn something from every guitar player" and that advice has been a came changer for me for years. Now, I just realized while making this video that that advice from my dad also lines up with what Patrick Lencioni talks about in his book The Ideal Team Player where he advocates that in order to be an ideal team player, you need to be humble, hungry, and smart. In order to learn from other guitar players, you need to have those three traits. This is the difference between having an abundance mindset instead of a scarcity minds...

Learn how to play power chords is some of the best advice you can get when first learning how to play guitar. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you today! One thing that I've decided over the years is that the things that I started out with when I first started learning guitar, and the things that most beginner guitar players start out learning first, actually have a steeper learning curve than is necessary to play real music and have fun on guitar right away. Open chords is what most people will start out with, but power chords are SO MUCH EASIER for most people & you can play tons of songs right away by learning these super easy guitar chords. As a guitar teacher, my favorite thing to start new students out on is power chords in Drop D tuning because they're so simple and make learning guitar fun. Whether you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar, power chords for beginners unlock thousands of songs for you to play right awa...

What are scales on guitar? This is one question that a lot of people have is where do scales come from? Or what are musical scales? Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners on what are scales in music. When you break it down, scales really are really just simple patterns & in today's guitar tutorial I'm going to show you how that pattern works for the major scale. Now, the major scale is the basis for all of western music & home base for everything in music theory so getting this down first & understanding it will really help you out & make learning guitar easier.

Whether you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar, these scales are all the same on every guitar in standard tuning. But when learning how to play scales on guitar, most people just look at the scale as a collection or block of notes & don't get behind why they work or where it comes from. But understanding that makes learning how to play guitar better.

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How to get better at guitar every day is really quite simple but so many guitar players will overlook it & watch their playing plateau. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for you. Today's guitar lesson for beginners is really for anyone, doesn't matter if you're a beginner or not, doesn't matter if you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar especially because today is more on the mindset & motivation side of playing.

There's a simple mental trick you can use to make sure that you get better at guitar every single day that you play. A lot of guitar players will see their progress slow down or plateau & the reason for that is because we get to having so much fun playing the stuff that we're already good at that that's all we do! But when you're learning guitar & want to get better at guitar, you have to challenge yourself to get better. Your progress will be a lot slower if all you do is play the stuff you're already good at. It's good ...