Learn to Play the Electric Guitar Free Online
You were all probably very excited when you got your first Guitar. Then, if you are like most of the beginners, you were probably met by the frustration of not being able to Learn how to play it. A dedicated guitar teacher could help you with that problem, but not all of us have the resources to afford private lessons.
Fortunately, there is a solution. Why not Learn to play the electric guitar free online? There are several websites dedicated to help you learn the basics about playing the guitar and overcome the frustration feelings you usually come across when you’re trying to be your own teacher.
Free Guitar Lessons Resources
If you’ve decided you want to learn to play the electric guitar free online, the first thing you’ve got to do is find a good resource. Look for one written by a professional guitar player. It is also important that they offer feedback, so that you will have someone to ask for help when you come across some difficulties.
Dan Cross, the guitar writer at About, has some useful tips for beginner guitarists. However, there are plenty of resources you can find to learn to play the electric guitar free online. Choose one that suits your learning style best. Most of them are written in standard notation and guitar tablature.
Guitar Chords
Here is what most resources designed to help you learn to play the electric guitar free online will probably teach you about chords:
l How to read a chord diagram
l Open position guitar chords: major, minor, seventh chords
l How to switch from one chord to another effectively
l Guitar songs that use open position guitar chords
l How to make up your own music
l How to create and play barre chords
The Pentatonic Scale
Some of you will probably want to learn more than the basics and get to play more complicated guitar riffs. Whether you want to play in Metallica’s style, blues licks like Eric Clapton or Page or jazz songs like George Benson and Larry Carlton, they all have something in common. All of them use the pentatonic scale.
l Free online lessons on the pentatonic scale will probably teach you:
l Best practices for learning any scale
l Playing 5 different patterns of pentatonic scale
l A few pentatonic blues songs to get you started
l Learning about passing tone and how you can use it
l How to make up your own guitar riffs
If you want to learn to play the electric guitar free online, you will probably have to subscribe to a specialized website. Most of them will provide lessons starting at the beginner level and increasing in difficulty as they go further. However, to make sure they meet your learning style and your current level; you can always contact the guitar teacher and ask.
Online guitar lessons will not be able to replace a private teacher, who can provide you with personal attention monitor your progress and offer a high level of feedback. However, if you are a good autodidact, you will probably find some very useful online guitar lessons to get you started.
Fame Ahmed
how do you learn to play the electric guitar fast easy and free from your house?
I really want to learn how to play the electric guitar easily and for free but theres nothing thats free and that actually helps you learn electric guitar anyone know about somthing like online and thata worked for them?
hello,
actually ive learned alot of guitar on youtube, just type in guitar lessons, or electric guitar lessons on youtube, there are tons of tips and lessons/videos in there, and its free
hope it helps
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while theres nothing thats free that will help you if you really want to learn you should learn how to read tabs just type how to read tabs in yahoo answers if you dont know how. Really what you need to become good is determination. And if you need tabs http://www.ultimate-guitar.com is normally a good place to look. good luck
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Only if one of your parents is a guitar teacher.
Websites and videos let you watch somebody ELSE play. If you want to learn to play, then someone who is an EXPERT must be able to see and hear you. No website will do that. Sure, people will TELL you and SELL you – but the only one truly winning there is the one cashing the checks.
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Professional musician, certified teacher, and competition judge in Ny since 1971.
There is no such thing as learning guitar "fast" and "easy". If it were truly "fast" and "easy", everyone would do it. And "free" guitar instruction materials are generally worth what you paid for them.
Instead there are a lot of clueless beginners who buy guitars thinking that its going to be fast and easy to learn guitar off the internet — then they find out that they’re NOT going to be good enough to be in their friend’s band in a month, get frustrated and quit.
Or they learn a few intros and solos to a half dozen songs from tabs they got off the Internet, but they skip over the basics of MUSIC. They can’t play chords or keep a steady beat when they’re playing rhythm, can’t improvise, follow a chord chart, or play anything they don’t have tabs for. Then they hit a wall in their guitar playing and come on here looking for advice on how to improve — and the advice is — TAKE SOME LESSONS. LEARN THE BASICS before you dive into playing solos right away. Learn what you’re doing and why.
If you’re truly interested in becoming a good musician on guitar, you can’t go into it expecting it to be fast and easy. You can learn a handful of chords in a few months, well enough to strum along on some simple 3 chord rock songs without messing up too badly. And if that’s all you want to do, great. But truly mastering the guitar takes YEARS, and its a neverending journey, because no matter how good you get you never run out of new things to learn about music.
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37 years of guitar playing
Listen to what Mamianka and Rachel said. There is nothing like that. Electric guitar is an art, just like any other instrument, and takes years to become good at. Obviously, you have no previous experience with music, you can’t read music and don’t know the theory. So please, do yourself a favor and book some lessons (you won’t need more that ten probably) just to learn the basics of playing and theory. With correct approach and knowledge of some theory, you can further teach yourself, but in the beginning you really do need a teacher. A real teacher…and EXPERT…not a friend who knows 5 chords!!!!
Good luck and pleeze do it! You will save many months, in fact, learning from a teacher is the fast way your looking for, but you’ll have to pay, however, it’s bloody worth it! DO IT!
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Yes, youtube is the place. It will help to have a real human to jam with after you learn some basics (or to help learn the basics)……….that’s sometimes free, too.
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