3 Tips to Take Your Guitar Scales to the Next Level

playing technique Aug 05, 2021

3 tips to take your guitar scales to the next level is the subject of today's guitar lesson for beginners. ✅✅✅ Wanna go from just strumming chords to playing lead guitar? Get the easiest, most practical start to lead guitar here: http://simpleguitar.com/instantrockstarscale with The Instant Rockstar Scale Mini-Course.
 
Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you that's going to help you with 3 guitar scale exercises you can do to level up any scale you know. These 3 tips are designed to help you really learn your guitar scales & learn your fretboard a lot better at the same time. Guitar scales for beginners can be confusing when learning how to play guitar, but you'll be able to use these guitar scales for soloing a lot better & get into more guitar scales for intermediate guitar players when you use these guitar scales exercises.
 
Chapters:
0:00 - 3 tips to take your guitar scales to the next level introduction
0:18 - How to take y...
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Beginnger Guitar Finger Workouts

playing technique Jul 31, 2021

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...

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My Biggest Mistake Learning Guitar On My Own

mindset & motivation Jul 29, 2021

My biggest mistake learning guitar on my own 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 the biggest mistake I made that held my playing back for years & how you can avoid the same mistake. A mistake that a lot of beginner guitar players make when learning how to play guitar, is hearing something & immediately thinking it's going to be too hard for them to learn how to play it. That's a huge, self-imposed roadblock. Instead, you should always challenge yourself to learn things that you think are going to be too hard because 80% of the time, it's going to be a whole lot easier than it sounds.

Chapters:

0:00 - The biggest mistake learning guitar on my own introduction

1:20 - The Biggest Mistake Learning Guitar is all in your head

2:31 - How you can learn from my biggest mistake learning guitar

3:40 - What to do if you're making the biggest mistake learning guitar

5:19 -...

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Metronome Practice For Beginners Part 2 - Scales & Arpeggios

guitar practice Jul 24, 2021

Metronome practice for beginners on how to practice scales & arpeggios with a metronome 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 practicing scales & arpeggios with a metronome. A lot of guitar players will struggle with always playing their scales & arpeggios the same way. This gets especially boring when improvising. So how do you fix it? Practicing your scales & arpeggios with a metronome is going to help you develop a great sense of rhythm & timing. With the exercises I give you in today's guitar tutorial you'll also have more rhythmic options for your phrasing when soloing.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Metronome practice for beginners introduction

0:52 - Get a Metronome Speed Log for FREE

1:45 - How to practice guitar scales with a metronome exercise 1 - Quarter Notes

3:33 - How ...

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Metronome Practice For Beginners Part 1 - Chords

playing technique Jul 22, 2021

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.

Download the Metronome Speed Log right here: https://www.simpleguitar.com/metronom...

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Guitar Scale Practice For Beginners

guitar practice Jul 17, 2021

Guitar scale practice for beginners is today's guitar lesson for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson for you on some things you can do for guitar scale practice for beginners. Once you learn a scale, you don't want to just play it up and down over and over forever, that's boring & it doesn't help you really learn that scale really well. So today I'm going to show you some of the phases that I take students through to really know how to play their scales & know their guitar scales inside & out. If you use these guitar scale practice exercises in your playing, you'll definitely know your scales much better & be able to go all over the guitar.

Chapters:

0:00 - Guitar scale practice for beginners introduction

0:36 - Guitar scale practice exercise 1 - Play the scale up & down

1:25 - Guitar scale practice exercise 2 - Improvise with your new guitar scale

4:25 - Guitar scale practice exercise 3 - Play scale sequences

4:51 - G...

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The Best Way to Learn Scales on Guitar

music theory Jul 15, 2021

The best way to learn scales on guitar is not to just print off scales from the internet and play them. Welcome to today's guitar lesson for beginners guys, I'm Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson that will help you actually understand what is going on with the scales you learn. Today we're going to take the A Minor Pentatonic scale, the first scale most guitar players learn, & break it down to show you why there are 5 different pentatonic scale positions all across the neck. We're going to start by finding out what the notes of the scale are, then we're going go in a 2 notes per string pattern walking through the notes of the scale until we find 2 notes on each string. When we're all done with this, you'll see WHY we have different scale positions for one scale & then you can use this same method to help you better understand ANY scale.
 
Pick up the FREE fretboard diagram that has all the notes on it by going to http://simpleguitar.com/fretboa...
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The FIRST Barre Chord to Learn on Guitar

playing technique Jul 10, 2021

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...

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Learn These Chords Before Barre Chords

playing technique Jul 08, 2021

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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Chapters:

0:00 - Learn th...

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What Should You Practice on Guitar?

guitar practice Jul 03, 2021

What should you practice on guitar? That's the question we're going to answer in today's guitar tutorial for beginners. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you to help make knowing what you should practice on guitar simple. When starting out learning how to play guitar, it can be confusing for a lot of people to know what they should learn & practice. So in today's guitar lesson for beginners I'm going over the biggest areas of what you should practice on your guitar. For example, you should practice your rhythm guitar skills, your lead guitar skills, your music theory knowledge, and your creativity. Those are the biggest areas for you to work on in your guitar practice for beginners.
 
Here's the video on memorizing notes during your guitar practice that I mentioned in this video: https://youtu.be/B1nnfOb0BMU
 
Chapters:
0:00 - What should you practice on guitar?
0:33 - Things to practice on guitar #1 - Riffs, Songs & Solos
2:...
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