How to play guitar
Learn how to play guitar online with my absolutely free guitar lessons, apps, practice timer, images, graphics and virtual tools! Whether you are an experienced guitarist, guitar teacher or a beginner, I have tons of free guitar resources to share with you.
My resources include some of the largest selection of free guitar chord books on the web as well as the most customizable guitar scale chart generators, a practice timer and metronome. My lessons inlcude animated GIFs, guitar TABs and apps to help you or your students learn the music theory needed to play guitar like a pro.
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Latest free guitar lessons
Tons of interesting guitar tricks you can use to squeeze cool sounds from your guitar.
Learn the basics of finger picking also known as fingerstyle guitar.
Printable Bass Guitar TAB paper. Free to save, edit or print. Print as many blank sheets as you like.
The fundamentals of reading music notation.
A huge list of beginner guitar chord strumming patterns to practice.
The Japanese Taishikicho scale is interesting to learn and play. Use this app to create diagrams for it in many different guitar tunings.
This lesson shows all the common barre chords shapes with some tips on how to play them. I also show some shapes that you might not be familiar with.
Bebop scales are the money maker scales for Jazz guitar. Create custom Bebop charts with this handy app!
