Blues shuffle for beginners is what we're going over in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from Simple Guitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you where I'm going to give you 3 levels of blues shuffles starting with beginner, then intermediate, & finally advanced. This blues shuffle guitar lesson starts with the very easiest place for beginning blues guitar with an open A shuffle. Then we move into using closed power chords and a basic 12 bar blues guitar lesson to move the easy blues shuffle for beginners all over the fretboard in any key. And finally we get the the advance level where we go over how the old pros can play blues shuffles all night long without their hand dying in the process. Playing the blues so that you can jam with anyone at anytime should be required learning when you're learning how to play guitar no matter what style you play, so I hope this really helps you out!

Chapters:

0:00 - Blues shuffle for beginners introduc...

Beginner guitar finger workout 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 on one of the best beginner finger exercises for guitar. A lot of guitar players really struggle with getting their fingers to do what they want them to do. The finger exercises for guitar that I'm going to give you in this guitar tutorial for beginners will really help with that, though, & really help you develop monster fingers that you have great control over.

Chapters:

0:00 - Beginner guitar finger workout Introduction

1:26 - Beginner finger exercise for guitar number 1

4:07 - Guitar finger exercises for beginners number 2

5:25 - Beginner guitar exercises number 3

5:51 - Changing your guitar finger exercises to other strings

6:40 - Beginner finger workout number 4

7:38 - How to practice beginner guitar finger workouts

8:30 - My gift to you for learning about the best beginner gu...

Metronome practice for beginners 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 for you on how to practice with a metronome to improve your guitar chords. A problem that a lot of guitar players have when learning how to play guitar is not having a good sense of rhythm & timing. Using a metronome in your practice will help you develop a really solid internal sense of rhythm & timing. In today's lesson I'm going to show you how you can use a metronome to get better with your chord changes. Then we'll go over how to practice strumming patterns with a metronome. And finally we'll cover practicing chord progressions & finger picking with a metronome. I'm also going to give you a resource called a Metronome Speed Log that you can use to track how fast you're playing things & see your improvement over time.

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The first barre chord to learn on guitar is what we're going over in today's guitar tutorial for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you on what I think the first bar chord to learn on guitar is. When it comes to learning barre chords on acoustic guitar or electric guitar, most people start out by learning E shape and A shape barre chords that are actually more difficult than this first barre chord to learn on guitar. Rather than starting with E shape & A shape barre chords, you can tune down to Drop D tuning & play a D shape barre chord using just your 1st, 3rd, & 4th fingers. This is the easiest barre chord for beginners to start with and you can start using it today to play & write songs easily,

Chapters:

0:00 - The first barre chord to learn on guitar introduction

1:28 - Tune down to Drop D for the first barre chord to learn on guitar

2:26 - Easiest barre chord to start out with

3:42 - Using one barre chord shap...

Learn these chords BEFORE barre chords & learning barre chords will be a lot easier. PLUS these chords sound awesome & you can begin using them right now to put together your own songs. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. In today's guitar tutorial for beginners I"m going to show you some awesome sounding, easy to play chords that you can learn before barre chords. Or if you prefer to spell it 'bar chords' that's fine, too. These chords are still going to sound awesome, build up your hand to make bar chords easier, & give you some great sounding options that you can start using right away to write your own songs.

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0:00 - Learn th...

How to create your own strum patterns is the subject of today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SImpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. "I need to learn more strum patterns" is something I hear from people all the time. In today's guitar tutorial for beginners I'm going to show you how to make your own strum patterns so you'll never run out of new strum patterns to play on your acoustic guitar or electric guitar. We're going to go over how to use destructive creation to come up with all kinds of different guitar strumming patterns. Once you have your new strumming pattern put together, you can still adjust it by playing it faster or slower, swinging the rhythm, playing fewer strings...there's a lot you can do with these guitar strumming patterns for beginners that you can create yourself. 

Chapters: 

0:00 - How to create your own strum patterns introduction

0:14 - Where to start with making your own strumming patterns

0:38 - C...

What are arpeggios? How do you practice arpeggios? That's what we're going to answer in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you going over arpeggios on the guitar & some ways to start practicing them so that you can actually use them. Learning your arpeggios all over the guitar & how they relate to other guitar arpeggios nearby them is one of the best ways to learn your fretboard. Also, having a solid grasp on these arpeggios will help you sound better when you solo because you'll understand where to play the notes that match whatever chord is being played. So today I'm going to briefly explain arpeggios for you & show you some simple exercises you can do to start using in your practice to really get these guitar arpeggios under your fingers.

You must be an awesome person to still be reading this description about arpeggios on guitar. I like you. Have an awesome day!

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:...

Today's guitar lesson for beginners is about how to turn guitar scales into solos. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you to help you start to turn scales into music that actually sounds good. A lot of guitar players start learning their scales all over the guitar & then are confronted with the question of, "How do I turn these scales into actual solos?" So today I'm going to give you a few of the tips about things you can use along with your scales to start getting musical & sounding like you've been playing solos forever.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:27 - How Phrasing will help your guitar scales turn into solos

2:19 - How Scale Sequences will turn your guitar scales into guitar solos

5:35 - How using rests & rhythm will make your guitar solos stand out

7:28 - Bonus tip on playing a note more...