Learn Electric Guitar

Blues guitar is a common starting point for new guitarists.  My first ever guitar lesson was learning a 12 bar blues in A, and it’s easy to see why it’s popular way for teachers to ease their students into playing – it’s a great way to introduce many fundamentals of playing guitar, such as playing [...]

Are you new to playing guitar, and not sure how you should go about learning?  There are a number of different ways you can get Guitar Instruction.  The best way to go about it depends who you are and what stage you are at.  Here are the common was to learn guitar, and the advantages [...]

So you are learning electric guitar, and unsatisfied with the pace you have set?
Learning to play any sort of instrument does largely come down to consistent practice. But there are a few things you can do that will help you learn electric guitar fast.
1) Use a metronome
There are many types of metronomes – older [...]

Southpaws have a few different options when they first start learning guitar.  Some people who are naturally left handed will just get a right handed guitar and learn to play it like any right hander would.  This gives you the most options with guitars to buy, and considering that the left hand does a lot [...]

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Another lesson in the alternate picking series, this one practices alternate picking on non-adjacent strings.  Unlike some of the other exercises in the series, this one has no tonal centre, isn’t based on any particular scale and is designed only to improve technique rather than achieve a particularly melodic sound.  However [...]

Isn’t it strange how performing in front of a crowd can sometimes make something as fun and enjoyable as playing into a real nightmare?  Here are a few tips to sort out those nerves..
Know your parts
Learn every part of every song you’re going to play, and learn them backwards.  Get to the stage where you’re [...]

Heya.. happy new year everyone
To kick things off for the year, I have created an account on Flickr for the Learn Electric Guitar blog.  Flickr is a popular image hosting and sharing service.  What’s cool about having the exercises on Flickr is that, if people want to review some of the exercises I’ve [...]

I was looking at my website stats just before and I saw that someone had arrived here by searching for the phrase: “what age to learn electric guitar”, and I thought to myself “well, just about any age really.”
Small children can have problems with full size electric guitars, getting a 3/4 size or 1/2 size [...]

Do you ever sit down to practice.. tune up.. plug your guitar into your amp.. start playing and then think “i’m sure it sounded better yesterday“?  So then you start switching pickups, play with the gain knob.. okay, that’s sounding harsh now, I’ll wind back the treble.. okay it needs a bit more attack, I [...]

An interesting comment from blog reader ’stevo’ on my last post on learning to play other people’s songs:
    “why would you wanna play other people’s songs? just develop your own voice”
There’s so many different ways of responding to this, because different people have different reasons for wanting to learn other people’s songs.
I’ve always spent most [...]