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The following is a collection of useful links to additional resources that will help you with various aspects of learning the guitar.

I hope you find them useful.

How To Play Guitar
Guitars on Wikipedia
Fret Daddy Guitar Stickers
Guitar Chords and Tabs
Ultimate Guitar – Tabs and other stuff

Top Pages

Best Guitar Courses
Blues Guitar Riffs
Blues Scales
Guitar Exercises
Guitar Harmonics
Guitar Strings
Guitar Theory
How to Buy a Guitar
Lead Guitar Lessons
Learning Guitar Chords
Links
Open Chords
Parts of a Guitar
Power Chords
Practice Routine
The Blues Guitar Scale – A Guide to All 5 Positions of the Minor Pentatonic
Tuning a Guitar
Why Learn Scales?

Recent Blog Posts

How to Finger Pick a Guitar – Beginners’ Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson

For years I ignored the hundreds of fingerstyle guitar lessons online as I trawled through Youtube looking for the best rock and blues guitar riffs to learn. I used to think that learning to finger pick guitar would be a total waste of time for me because I wasn’t a classical or folk guitarist. My [...] Read more »

How to Play Guitar Chords – Minor Triads

Minor triads have a much more mellow, some might say mournful, quality to them than their major triad cousins. The reasons why they sound sad when compared to major triads are complex and not fully understood (although theories abound on the subject), but I think it has a lot to do with social conditioning and [...] Read more »

How to Hold A Guitar

One of the first things you need to learn when you begin playing is how to hold a guitar properly. It might seem obvious how you hold it, unless you take your lead from Jimi Hendrix, in which case you might be forgiven for holding the guitar behind your head and plucking it with your [...] Read more »

Guitar Keys and Chords – An Explanation of Guitar Keys for Beginners

Musicians are always banging on about “keys”. When they play a piece of music, it’s not sufficient just to say let’s play “Johnny B Goode”. No, they have to say they’ll play it in the key of A, or if they really know their onions, the key of Bb, which is how Chuck Berry played [...] Read more »

Guitar Chords – What Are Triads?

As you navigate your way through the subject of guitar theory and begin to get on to the subject of learning to play guitar chords and how they are formed, you’ll quickly touch upon the concept of triads. For years I never really got to grips with triads. I sort of understood what they were, [...] Read more »

Guitar Intervals – The Music Theory Building Blocks

In my earlier article on guitar intervals I gave a quick overview of what they are and why we refer to them all the time in musical circles. The basic principle is very simple – at their heart, intervals simply express how far apart two notes are. This distance is measured in terms of tones [...] Read more »

Guitar Intervals Explained – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Guitar Interval But Were Afraid to Ask

There is a lot of jargon – like guitar intervals – surrounding music, which can sometimes appear quite intimidating and frighten off people who are just beginning to learn guitar. A lot of us don’t have what you would call a proper classical training and many of us are pretty much teaching ourselves from books [...] Read more »

Are You A “Feel” or “Technique” Guitarist?

Once you’ve been playing the guitar for a number of years, you’ll start to find your own style and habits. This is a good thing and shows that you’ve reached a level of maturity in your playing that comes with consistent practice. In general, when I look around at the different guitarists I have known, [...] Read more »

Learn to Strum the Guitar – An Easy Exercise to Help You Learn Strumming Technique

I’ve been asked to provide a bit more detail on how to practice strumming the guitar after my first article, “Learn to Play Guitar“, mentioned the importance of strumming correctly. So in this article I’ll take things a little further and give you a few tips, some strumming lessons if you will, that will help [...] Read more »

Learn to Play Guitar

…Like Jimi Hendrix. It still surprises me how many guitarists concentrate on playing lead guitar to the detriment of their rhythm playing. The fact is that a good foundation in rhythm guitar will stand you in great stead for playing lead as well. Learning From the Master Just consider Jimi Hendrix as an example for [...] Read more »