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Fingerpicking Step 3 for beginners - Travis Picking

playing technique Nov 13, 2021

In today's guitar lesson for beginners we're going over fingerpicking step 3 for beginners where we break down Travis picking! Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. Travis picking for beginners is what most people think of when it comes to l...

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Fingerpicking Step 2 for beginners - 3/4 Time Fingerpicking

playing technique Nov 06, 2021

Fingerpicking step 2 covering 3/4 fingerpicking is what we're going over in today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you on the second step to take to make learning fingerpicking simple! Fingerpicking is an essential ...

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Fingerpicking Step 1 for Beginners - Straight Fingerpicking

playing technique Oct 30, 2021

Fingerpicking step 1 with straight fingerpicking is the easiest way to get started with how to do fingerpicking on the guitar & so 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 on the...

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How to Create Your Guitar Practice Schedule

mindset & motivation Oct 23, 2021

How to create your guitar practice schedule is the subject of today's guitar lesson for beginners.

✅✅✅ Download the practice schedule template to use yourself at http://simpleguitar.com/practiceschedule 

Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you on...

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How to Write Your First Guitar Song Easily

How to write your first guitar song is the topic of today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you to help you start writing your first song today! Writing your own music can be really intimidating, believe me. I didn't...
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What is Flatpicking For Beginners?

playing technique Oct 09, 2021

What is flatpicking for beginners? 🎸Get the PDF I made for you with some flatpicking practice patterns by going to http://simpleguitar.com/flatpicking That's what we're answering in today's guitar lessons for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar...

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How to Play Hitchin' a Ride by Green Day

how to play Oct 02, 2021

How to play Hitchin' a Ride by Green Day is what we're going over in today's guitar lessons for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you on one of my favorite Green Day songs to get students playing as soon as they know power chords. In th...

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Struggling to break out of the box on guitar? Try this

playing technique Sep 30, 2021

How to break out of the box on guitar is what we're going over in today's guitar lesson for beginnners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you on a simple but different way to look at your scales that will help with knowing how to break out of...
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1 Trick for Faster Chord Changes on Guitar

playing technique Sep 25, 2021

Faster chord changes on guitar is what today's guitar lessons for beginners is all about. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you about on simple trick you can use to make your chord changes faster & smoother sounding. One of the biggest proble...

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What Are The Best Electric Guitar Strings For Beginners?

gear & musicianship Sep 23, 2021

What are the best electric guitar strings for beginners? Good question! And 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. There's been a lot of controversy over the years about strin...

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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.