Frequently Asked Questions
How To Play Guitar – Questions Answered
Can I learn to play the guitar?
Just about anyone can learn how to play guitar. There’s no reason why you can’t learn to play the guitar. The real question should be “do I want to learn to play the guitar?” and you should ask this of yourself.
How long does it take to learn guitar?
You can learn something in your first day. After a week, month, year, you know more. It all depends on how good you want to be and how much time you spend at it. You can probably reach a reasonably proficient level in a short time if you want to. Learning how to play guitar should be a constantly ongoing thing and you never stop learning.
Is it hard to learn guitar?
No, it’s not hard to learn how to play guitar. You might come across some things that seem difficult at first but they’re overcome with practice.
Why do I have to learn guitar scales?
You don’t have to learn guitar scales but it’s well worth the time and trouble. Learning guitar scales will help you with your solos, improvisation, and overall guitar knowledge and playing. Learning how to play guitar chords is another important topic. Again, you don’t have to learn chords but you will become a better guitarist if you do.
Am I too old to learn guitar?
You’re never too old to learn how to play guitar. It’s probably true that the younger you start the better but if you want learn how to play guitar, do it, don’t let your age put you off.
At what age can children learn to play guitar?
They do say the younger the better but try not to force a child into learning to play the guitar. Let the child decide for them self that they want to learn to play the guitar and then support them and encourage them. Don’t try to live your dream through your children, they will give up when they get bored with it, and it will probably cost you some money in instructors fees for guitar lessons that you don’t really need to pay. Just don’t be pushy, it doesn’t work in the long run.
How can I learn guitar quickly?
You can buy every beginners learn guitar DVD, book, and online course you can find and practice for at least twelve hours a day. It all depends on how serious you are and what level you want to get to. As I said before, it doesn’t take too long to learn to play the guitar but the more you put into it, the more you will get back.
How did Jimi Hendrix learn to play guitar?
I like to think he was truly gifted. There were no DVDs or internet around then. Books showing you how to play like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, or whoever your favourite guitar player is, weren’t available either. It was said he had perfect pitch and could learn a group’s songs in an afternoon just by listening to their records.
Just think of the advantage you have over Jimi Hendrix with all of the resources available to you now. You probably won’t ever get as good as him, but have fun getting there and don’t give up.
Learn Blues Guitar
Playing Through The Blues
This is one of the best, if not the best, lead guitar tutorials I’ve seen. It includes pretty much everything needed to create impressive blues lead guitar solos. It covers scales, patterns, licks, techniques, and a lot more.
How To Play Blues Guitar
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already got some idea what blues music is like. You might not be aware, however, how much variety there is and how many different styles there are. It’s not limited to just the original 12-bar blues. You should be listening to different guitar players and hearing the different styles.
Learn Guitar Solos
How To Guitar Solo
Many people learning how to play the electric guitar want to learn to solo on guitar. They either want to create their own solos or be able to play the solos of their favourite guitarists.
Software
Riff Master Pro
The biggest problem when you’re trying to learn a new guitar solo is that you’re not Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or Eric Clapton, or whoever’s solo it is that you’re trying to play. Even if you’ve got the guitar tab in front of you, you just can’t get it right.
Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It can be used to record live audio; convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs; edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files; cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together; and change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Metronome
Using a metronome is one of the best ways to practice scales. Regular scale practice with the metronome will improve your scale knowledge, speed, timing, improvisation skills, finger strength, and dexterity. Start off at a slow speed and gradually increase the speed as you improve.
Power Tab Editor
Power Tab Editor is a tablature authoring tool for the Windows operating system. It is intended to be used to create guitar sheet music, more commonly known to musicians as guitar tablature and bass tablature.
Best Guitar Software
These are some of my favourite guitar related software programs I have on my computer that I use regularly.
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Learn Guitar Chords
Learn How To Play Guitar Chords
Learn how to play many different chords on the guitar quickly and easily by learning just a few different chord shapes and playing them at a different position on the fretboard.
Dominant Seventh Chords
This article is going to discuss the dominant 7th chords, usually just abbreviated to 7, e.g. E7 and A7. Don’t confuse the dominant 7th chord with the major seventh chord. The major 7th chords,or maj7, are a different chord.
A7 Chord
This article looks at the dominant seventh chords with its root note on the fifth string of the guitar.
Learn Guitar Chords – Major Chords
This series of articles will teach you basic guitar chords and then show you how to play these guitar chords at different positions on the fretboard to give different chords. We will start off with basic Major chord patterns first.
Learn Guitar Chords – Minor Chords
Now that you’ve learnt two basic major chord patterns, and learnt how to move them to different positions on the fretboard, I’m going to show you two minor chord shapes.
Learn Guitar Scales
Guitar Scale Mastery
Learning scales for guitar over the entire fretboard is a lot easier than you think. It will also improve your lead guitar soloing and speed. This is only true if you use a method that you find interesting and easy to use.
Major Scales And Modes Version 3
This is another update to the Major Scales And Modes For Guitar Software. This one is Version 3. It’s been completely rewritten and is more compact with a much friendlier user interface. It now also lists the chords that can be played over each key and mode. Although this is an update, you can still keep the earlier version if you like the look of that one too.
Major Scales And Modes Version 2
I’m not going to explain any music theory here about the major scales and modes. If you need some theory, you can get that from my previous article about major scales and modes where I explained the notes that make up the major scales and how the different modes work.This software is an updated version. The previous version just showed all the notes on the fretboard for the major scales and the modes in every key. This version splits the diagrams horizontally with the original diagram showing all the notes on the fretboard for that key and mode at the top. The lower two diagrams show two three note per string patterns for that mode. One has the root note on the sixth string, the other one has the root note on the fifth string.
Major Scales And Modes
Learn the notes of the major scale on guitar. Learn about the major scale modes. Download free software that shows you all the notes of the major scales and modes on the guitar in every key.
Guitar Scales Software
This software shows all the notes and positions on the guitar for the major and minor pentatonic and blues scales over the entire fretboard in every key.
Learn Guitar Tabs
Guitar Tabs For Beginners
Guitar tablature was created for guitarists as an easier method than standard notation to read music. It’s easy to learn guitar tab. Each string is represented by a horizontal line and a number on a line is the fret number being played. Guitar tabs can be used as an alternative to neck diagrams to display chords and scales as well as notes.
Learn Guitar Notes
Guitar Note Mastery
Guitar Note Mastery is another of those courses that isn’t absolutely necessary to learning the guitar but will improve your soloing and improvisation skills and your knowledge of the guitar notes on the fretboard.
Guitar Notes For Beginners
First of all, why should you bother to learn all of the guitar notes at every fret of the guitar neck? I know it can be boring and you can get by without doing it but the fact is, you will become a much better player if you learn how to play the right way. You need to learn them even if you aren’t serious about playing guitar. It helps construct yourself as a better player and it will help you with improvisation.