Clever Tips for Learning Guitar:

• Take the time to learn entire songs start to finish. Being able to play 1 song all the way through is so much more satisfying than being able to play 1-2 riffs from 20 different songs. Of course you won't be able to play every fancy lick and fill and solo on the records, playing the chords through the whole song is good enough and TONS of fun.
• Make time to practice. Deliberate practice is the only way to really improve. To be most effective it would be intense concentration and you would always be looking to push just past your limits. Fortunately you don't have to work THAT hard to get pretty good. Just play something fun and try to learn something new most every day and you'll do great.
• Make SEPARATE time to PLAY. This is as opposed to practicing. Carve out the time to have fun playing along with records or playing chords to see what sounds good and just PLAYING - like you were a kid :)
• Have fun - one of the funnest things is playing along with backing tracks of your favorite songs - as I said before, learn the WHOLE song.
• Learn these chords: A, Am, C, G, G7, D, E, Em Those chords will get you through like 75% of rock songs. Most rock songs really aren't all that complicated.

Last but not least: Never Give Up


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Tips for more advanced Players and for Further Study:

• Learn the pentatonic scale - This scale is at the root (no pun intended) of all rock music. Pick any key and a scale is an easy to learn set of notes where any note in the set fits (for that key). The Pentatonic Scale is the king of all rock scales and can be easily moved up and down the neck of the guitar to play in the key you desire.
• Learn power chords - These are simple 2 or 3 note chords that are really several strings of a barre chord, but lots of rock players play these instead of the barre chord, and rock has really developed most rock sounds around these chords. They are easy to learn and easy to apply all up and down the neck (kind of like the pentatonic scale).
• Learn to read tablature - Guitarists are quite fortunate that there is a form of music notation so easy. Tablature (or just 'tab') is fantastically easy and requires virtually no memorization and is VERY precise as opposed to trying to apply standard sheet music notation to playing the guitar (which can certainly be done well, just with a steeper learning curve).
• Learn some guitar solos - Solos are where a great guitarist shows his/her stuff. Find some simple solos and learn them. A few of those under your belt and you can impress ALL your friends (the ones who don't play guitar anyway :) ). Its quite likely that whatever rock solo you pick will be in the pentatonic scale (item 1 above!).

Last but not least (in fact MOST IMPORTANT): Never Give Up!



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Learn to Play Guitar Start to Finish:

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This is Jamorama - a complete guitar training course that is popular and pretty cheap. Its aimed at teaching beginners and intermediate guitarists and taking their playing to a higher level quickly, and it uses fun approaches to do this.

It Includes:

• Video Lessons to show exactly what to do
• How to read tablature
• How to play chords
• How to improvise solos

and much more.

One of its best features is the backing tracks that come with it. These are like an entire band playing your favorite songs with YOU as the lead guitar player. The whole track is there except they've pulled the guitar playing out so you can play along and its really YOU playing with the rest of the band. Backing tracks are a very fun way to practice (I do these all the time) and Jamorama comes with them.

So if you are looking for a boost in your skills or practice plans, then look carefully at Jamorama.

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