When it comes to playing guitar, it's not just about what you play, it's also about what you DON'T play. Using silence, or rests, is really important to making anything you play sound better. If all you have is a constant barrage of notes, adding in some silences will make things pop a lot more & will make things sound way more interesting. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. In today's guitar lesson for beginners I'm going to share with you why you need to make sure to use rests when you're playing music & how that will make you a better guitar player so you can feel like a rockstar when you play for people.

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Today's beginner guitar lesson is aimed at helping you become a better songwriter using a trick to create different chord progressions for a song. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another songwriting guitar lesson for you. One of the trickiest things when starting out songwriting is knowing how to create different chord progressions for different sections of your song. What I'm going to show you in today's beginner guitar lesson is how to take any chord progression you have & invert it to create more chord progressions that can fit really, really well. That way, the next time you go to write a song (or the first time) you can easily create chord progressions that work well together. Hope it helps you out!

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How to play Something in the Way by Nirvana from The Batman movie (2022) with Robert Pattinson is what we're covering in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about how to play one of the simplest songs that still sounds awesome. This song, which closes out Nirvana's Nevermind album, is a really moving song using only two chords for the entire songs. In this lesson we're going to over the chords used for Something in the Way & the strum patterns & put it all together for you so you can play the whole song right away.

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How to play My Hero by Foo Fighters is what we're going over in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson where I'm going to show you one of my favorite Foo Fighters songs. My Hero by Foo Fighters only has a few guitar chords for the rhythm part & we're going to break down the lead guitar part, too, so you can play either one.

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In today's guitar lesson for beginners we're going over why you aren't getting better at guitar & what to do about it. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson that will help you get yourself unstuck when your playing is in a rut. Every now and then you're going to encounter times that you don't feel like you're getting any better no matter what you do. Most of the time, this boils down to how you're approaching what you are learning & so in this lesson we're going to break down a couple of different reasons why you're not getting better & some strategies you can use to get out of a rut & back to feeling like you're guitar playing is progressing.

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Open chords are one of the first things that most guitar players learn, but it can quickly become overwhelming with the sheer amount of chords that you can learn on guitar. Which ones should a beginner guitar player learn? In this guitar lesson for beginners I'm going to break down for you all the different open chords that I think beginners should know. Starting with simplified versions of the easiest, most important chords & then moving on to full versions of all the chords & a few bonus chords thrown in for fun.

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What is the blues scale on guitar? That's what we're covering in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you going over what the blues scale is guitar. We're going to go over how to find the blues scale, how it's put together, & some practice strategies to help you get the blues scale under your fingers & start being creative with it.  

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How to throw in licks while strumming chords is the topic of today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about how to combine melodic licks when playing chords. A lot of people really like strumming chords & want to be able to throw in cool sounding, melodic licks at will, but how do you do that? In this guitar tutorial we're going to break down the three biggest things that you need to have down to do just that & give you some simple ways to start practicing adding licks to your chord strumming.

How to practice bends on guitar for beginners is the topic of today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you on one of the most expressive phrasing techniques - string bending. String bending has a lot of moving parts around it, which can lead to a lot of beginner guitar players being confused as to how to best exectue bends & all the different techniques around it. In today's guitar tutorial on string bending we're going to break it down for you to & go over how to make sure you hit the right note every single time, how to mute other strings around your bend, how to practice bending strings, & I'm going to give you some of my favorite guitar solos to go learn so that your bends will go from lame to awesome.

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Understanding the 80/20 rule for learning guitar will save you time so that's what we're going over today in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you on how I used the 80/20 rule to fake my way through high school jazz band & how that is going to help your guitar playing. This is a kind of checklist for you to use for the 20% of things that will get your 80% of the results when it comes to your playing. Once you know these things, you're covered for a very long time. Hope it helps you out!

Chapters:

0:00 - How I faked my way through jazz band

0:33 - First - you need to know open chords & strumming

1:27 - Second - you need to know E Shape barre chords

2:26 - Third - you need to knkow A Shape barre chords

3:04 - How to make jazz chords easier

6:09 - What scales do you need to know for 80/20 guitar?

8:29 - Quick review 9:37 - BONUS - this is required learning for every guitar player

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