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How Relaxing Will Make You Play Guitar Better

playing technique Dec 05, 2020

How relaxing will make you play guitar better is something that enough guitar teachers aren't talking about. Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here to help you with another beginner guitar lesson. Learning how to play guitar relaxed will ultimately help you play guitar better. The first thing you need to do is become aware of excess tension in your body when you play. To do that, stop yourself in the middle of playing & do a mental scan of your body looking for tense areas or flexed muscles & intentionally relax those spots. Then, before you begin playing, make sure you exhale to get rid of all the tension in your body. It's that simple, but it takes some practice to get it down & get rid of tension that's holding you back.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:36 - Understanding Tension & How It Shows Up

2:09 - Becoming AWARE of Tension

3:05 - TRICK TO GET RID OF TENSION

4:22 - How it looks

5:33 - Examples of GOOD Tension

6:57 - Review & Wrap Up

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How to Make Your Guitar Scales Sound Smoother

playing technique Dec 03, 2020

How to make your guitar scales sound smoother is a common question from a lot of beginner guitar players that I've seen as a guitar teacher. Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson video for you. There's one small technique change that you need to make to playing single note lines like scales, licks, and guitar riffs, that will make everything you play sound way smoother & more natural. And it's really simple so check out the full video for the whole guitar tutorial with extra tips & tricks.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:44 - How to Play the Scale I Use

2:18 - What most beginner guitar players do

4:14 - How to fix it

7:57 - Super basic exercise without scale

11:48 - Review & wrap up

Most guitar players will play a note & release that note before they play the next note. This leaves anything you play on guitar (whether on electric guitar or acoustic guitar) sounding short & disjointed. What you want to do to make it sound smoother ...

The Number One Things Holding Your Guitar Playing Back

mindset & motivation Nov 28, 2020

The number one thing holding your guitar playing back is playing things too fast way too soon. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson tutorial for you. Today we're on the topic of mindset & motivation side of guitar playing, which is always important. But a major issue I see with beginner guitar players all the time is they aren't patient enough to play new things slowly enough until they get it smooth. Especially teenage boys in guitar lessons just want to play everything as fast as possible as soon as possible, but what really is going to make you look cool is not just playing fast, but playing really, really clean & well fast.

If you can have the patience and dedication to play things slowly for a bit longer, it'll actually shorten the total amount of time it takes to learn guitar. Focus more on getting things you play on guitar to be smooth before you worry about getting them to be fast & you'll sound like a much better guitar player f...

How to Write Songs on Guitar - Become an INSTANT SONGWRITER TODAY!

creativity & songwriting Nov 21, 2020

Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. Today I'm going to show you how to write songs on guitar & become an instant songwriter today! I played guitar for 5 YEARS before I tried to write a song on guitar & that was WAY too long. Today I show students how to write a song on guitar within their first few lessons because being creative & writing songs is one of the best parts about playing & learning guitar. I'm going to share with you the songwriting tips & a simple songwriting process that make it simple for even beginner guitar students to write songs on guitar with no music theory knowledge & basic power chords in Drop D tuning.

Unfortunately, songwriting for beginners is something that a lot of guitar lessons don't cover for far too long. But if you want to know how to play guitar, then you need to know how to create your own music & not just have to cover the music other people have written. Getting started with songwrit...

Learn Everything on Guitar Better & Faster With This ONE Trick

creativity & songwriting Nov 19, 2020

Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners. This one will help you out even if you've been playing guitar for awhile, too! Today I'm going to show you a simple guitar trick that will make learning anything you do on guitar easier & faster. You'll have better recall & deeper learning, too! I got today's guitar tip from the book Make It Stick, which everyone should read, it's a great book about learning & everything in it can be applied to learning guitar.

One of the main concepts in the book is the effect of having to recall information leads to much deeper learning than solely repetition. When it comes to learning guitar, one of the best things you can do to have to recall things is to immediately get creative with whatever you're learning. Whether it's a new scale, a new chord, a new lick, whatever it is, get it under your fingers & then get creative with it right away. This will help you learn guitar better way, way, way faster.

Let'...

How to Play Warning by Green Day - EASY BEGINNER SONG

how to play Nov 14, 2020

Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners. Today I'm going to show you one of my favorite easy guitar songs for beginners that's also a great alternative rock song...Warning by Green Day. Which is from the album of the same name, which I think is their most underrated album, but that's another story :) Warning is a great beginner guitar song because the whole song is only three chords (A D G) & is only made up of one chord progression (A D G D) plus a little riff that gets used for an interlude & the bridge. It's super easy & you'll be able to get this down in no time! The part I'm going over in this video is the acoustic guitar part from the recording, but you can easily play this on an electric guitar if you prefer.

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro

1:47 - Main Chord Progression Overview

2:07 - How to Play the A Chord

3:39 - How to Play the D Chord

3:58 - How to Play the G Chord

4:59 - Level 1 of the Chord Progression - Half Notes

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How to Easily Memorize Notes on the Guitar Fretboard

music theory Nov 12, 2020

Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you! Today we're going over how to easily memorize notes on the guitar fretboard. I'm going to show you 3 simple strategies to make guitar notes for beginners nice & simple. If you spend only 5-10 minutes per day doing these things, you'll have all the guitar notes on the fretboard down in no time. Learning all the notes on the fretboard on guitar is one thing that will really open up a lot of creative possibilities for you as you start to apply some basic music theory knowledge along with it.

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro

2:09 - Strategy #1

4:06 - Strategy #2

5:57 - Strategy #3

8:48 - Review & Wrap Up

Pick up a FREE PDF fretboard diagram of all then notes on the guitar fretboard (up to 24 frets) by swinging by http://www.simpleguitar.com/fretboard & while you're there you can also pick up a copy of The Top 10 Things to Learn on Guitar First so you can go from feeling like a beginner to bein...

How to Play Lost Boy by Ruth B on Guitar For Beginners

how to play Nov 07, 2020

Today we're going over how to play Lost Boy by Ruth B on guitar for beginners. This is a great beginner song on guitar because the whole song is built on whole notes & half notes so you can focus on your chord changes timing & most of the song is only one chord progression. This is one of the most easy songs with chords on guitar for beginners to play. As long as you know your open chords Em, G, C, Am, & D, you can play this beginner guitar song.

Get your PDF of the music of Lost Boy by Ruth B by swinging by http://www.simpleguitar.com/lostboy & while you're there you can also pick up a FREE copy of The Top 10 Things to Learn on Guitar First so that you can go from feeling like a total beginner to being a confident guitar player & impress your friends & family with your new skills!

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

2:00 - What Chords You Need To Know

4:01 - Main Chord Progression

5:27 - Verse Section Basics

5:53 - Chorus Section Basics

6:43 - Pre Chorus Section Basics

7:45 - Pre ...

5 Things That Make Learning Barre Chords Easier

playing technique Nov 05, 2020

These 5 things that will make learning barre chords easier is a run down of the process I normally take students through so that when we get to barre chords in the guitar lessons, it feels easy and natural to play.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:55 - Tip 1

5:05 - Tip 2

7:15 - Tip 3

9:31 - Tip 4

14:32 - Tip 5

15:43 - Review

Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar tutorial. Today's guitar tips and tricks topic is barre chords made easy. Most guitar players just dive into learning barre chords the hard way, but it doesn't have to be that way. Before you play barre chords (or bar chords as some folks say), you need to get your fretting hand used to the position it will be in. Whether you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar, barre chords are a totally different technique than just playing open chords like most people play when they first learn guitar. Subscribe to the channel for more guitar lessons for beginners to learn how to play guitar...

How to Play What's In Your Head On Guitar To Boost Your Creativity

creativity & songwriting Oct 31, 2020

In this guitar lesson for beginners we're going over how to play what's in your head on guitar so that you can boost your creativity & sound way, way better when you solo and improvise. Learning to hear notes in your head before you play them is a skill all the great guitar players have & that any beginner guitar player can start to develop.

This isn't the topic of a typical beginner guitar lesson, but starting out by doing what we talk about in the video will help you as you start soloing & learning guitar improvisation. And, like all of my guitar tutorial videos, it won't matter if you like playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar for this to apply. As a guitar teacher, playing guitar for beginners doesn't spend enough time on creativity, but you can change that by applying the things in this video.

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