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How to Hold a Guitar Pick for Beginners

Uncategorized Oct 06, 2020

How to hold a guitar pick for beginners is what we're talking about in today's Total Beginner guitar lesson. This is one of the most basic things when learning how to play guitar, but can be easy to get wrong. When you get how to hold a pick, or plectrum, it will make playing easier on acoustic gu...
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How to Hold Down a Not on Guitar For Beginners

total beginners Oct 05, 2020

Today's guitar lesson video is all about how to hold down a note on guitar for beginners. This seems super basic and simple but a lot of guitar players make some common mistakes when the fret notes on the guitar. This total beginner guitar lesson with guitar teacher Brad Litton of SimpleGuitar.com...

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How to Tune Your Guitar

total beginners Oct 03, 2020

In today's guitar lesson video we're talking about how to tune your guitar for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here today to show you how to tune your guitar using a guitar tuner. In future videos I'll show you how you can tune your guitar to itself using other techniques....
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How to Read Guitar Tab for Beginners

total beginners Oct 02, 2020

How to read guitar tab for beginners is the topic of the day for this guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here to help you out with more guitar tutorials. Today we're talking about how to ready guitar tab, or tablature if you want to be accurate. Guitar tab is ...

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The Parts of the Guitar for Beginners - Total Beginner Guitar Lessons

total beginners Oct 01, 2020

Here are the parts of the guitar for beginners. Hey guys, I'm Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com. In today's free guitar lesson for beginners we're going to go over the parts of the guitar explained. Understanding the parts of the guitar will help you when you are talking with other guitar players ...
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Why to Learn the Entire Song, not just the riff

Uncategorized Sep 26, 2020

Why to learn the entire song on guitar? So that you don't kill the vibe when you're playing for people! The fastest way to kill the mood when you're playing guitar for your friends is to get to the bridge of the song & not know how to play it. That's why you need to learn the entire song, not just...

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Guitar Amps Explained For Beginners

Guitar amps explained for beginners is the topic of the day! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with an electric guitar lesson for beginners about how to use a guitar amp. One of the keys to getting a great guitar tone on electric guitar is knowing how to use your guitar amp settings.
 
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How to Get Out of a Guitar Rut

How to get out of a guitar rut when you have a bad day? Every guitar player goes through this at one point or another...and often several times through their guitar playing journey. But the key to getting past a guitar rut or hitting the guitar wall is to learn to love the process of learning guit...
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Basic Rhythm for Beginner Guitar Players

Basic rhythm for beginner guitar players can be a bit tricky at first, but this free guitar lesson for beginners with Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com is aimed at helping you with one of the most basic, overlooked rhythm that a lot of people skip over. If you can get these basic rhythms down, it'...

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How to Set Guitar Goals For Beginners

How to set guitar goals for beginners can make or break you when you hit your first guitar playing rut. Most guitar players set guitar goals completely wrong & it hurts their guitar motivation keeps them from getting better faster. If you know how to set guitar goals right, it makes having fun pla...

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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.