Tag: guitar lesson
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Why Learning to Play Other Instruments Will Make You a Better Guitarist
It might seem strange to suggest that mastering the trumpet would help you to become a better guitarist, but the honest truth is that there are plenty of reasons why improving your musical repertoire can and will help you to become a better guitarist – and musician – overall. So, if you want to understand…
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Country Double Stop Riff
By Gary Heimbauer for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Country lead guitar players tend to be really good at mixing chords with their lead ideas and blurring the line between rhythm and lead guitar. How do they do this? Generally, they are able to do this by having a firm working knowledge of triads…
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First Things To Learn On Guitar
If you are an absolute beginner on guitar there are a few steps you can take to help with your overall success rate! After all, playing music is not easy and requires some hills and hurdles to overcome so it’s best to take a proper approach. Here are some of the first things you need…
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How to improvise better solos on the guitar
Thoughts, advice and demonstrations on Guitar solo improvisation from tunein-toneup.com Why do I love playing the guitar so much? Mainly because the guitar is an instrument, a tool, which I use to express myself and hope to make the listener feel something. My voice. As Maya Angelou said: People will forget what you said. People…
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How To Play Guitar Like Derek Trucks
By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Derek Trucks is a virtuoso slide guitarist who has been playing with famous rock groups like the Allman Brothers Band since he was a teen. While slide blues guitarists may have been his early inspiration, he has since added Latin and Indian scales to his…
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How To Tackle Barre Chords
How to Tackle Barre Chords By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Barre chords are an absolute pain in the fingers! When you are learning how to play guitar, barre can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you approach them correctly and practice them often they will become easier. Here are…
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How To Learn Guitar With Guitar Tricks
If you would like to learn how to play guitar there are many online courses to choose from, in fact, there are so many it’s hard to know where to begin! However, Guitar Tricks has been providing online guitar lessons since 1998 so it’s safe to say they are a good place to get started.…
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Should I give up Learning Guitar?
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As guitarists, we’re learning all the time through lessons, practising, playing, or even just listening. But when is it time to stop? When will you be good enough? The Lightbulb moment. This came just the other day. One of the main reasons I purchased my Fender Player Stratocaster was to have the perfect tool to…
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Exciting New Guitar Tricks™ Collaboration!
Since mid-2021, Guitar Tricks™; a hugely popular online guitar lesson company, has been kindly contributing some fantastic guitar lesson articles on these very pages. How good is that?! Well, it’s too good to pass you by, so I’ve gathered all the articles together where they belong, in a brand new Guitar Tricks™ category, for easy…
