Monthly Archives: March 2010

Musical Keys on the Guitar and the Pattern of One-Four-Five

Do you get frustrated not understanding what chords you’re supposed to play in the key of C, or the Key of A? If you don’t have any musical theory understanding then this beginner lesson on keys and the one-four-five concept will help you out a lot. In this article and the following video I’m going [...]
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Guitar Chords for Beginners

5 Tips To Get You Playing Now This post gives five beginner level tips that will help you succeed in learning how to play guitar chords. If you follow these tips, and practice every day, you’ll be playing chords and songs in no time. Before You Start To learn to play guitar chords, you’ll first [...]
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How To Read Guitar Chord Diagrams

A Beginning Guitar Tutorial The Guitar articles on this site use standard graphical chord diagrams. You may already know how to read chord diagrams like this, but just in case you don’t, here’s a quick course in how to read them: How To Read The Chord Diagram Grid The grid in the diagram represents part [...]
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7 Tips For How To Play A Guitar

In today’s post, I’ll give you seven tips for how to play a guitar. If you follow these tips, they will help you to learn how to play a guitar and meet your musical goals. 1. Choose a guitar that you like and can play comfortably. Spend some time to pick out the guitar you [...]
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Getting Started with Chords – E and G Major Beginner Chord Lesson

As a beginner getting started with chords is an exciting time. It means you’re getting closer to learning some real songs to play, but before you can reach that goal of playing songs you must put in the practice to learn the correct techniques and hand positioning for the major and minor chords. Today I’m [...]
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Basics Of Blues Guitar Chords: Playing The Twelve Bar Blues

In Five Essential Blues Keys In this article, you’ll learn how to play the twelve bar blues. The twelve-bar blues is the foundation for many blues songs. Blues Guitar Chords You’ll Need For This Lesson If you don’t know how to play the guitar chords listed above, see my article Basics of Blues Guitar Chords: [...]
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Basics of Blues Guitar Chords: Playing 7 Essential Blues Guitar Chords

Start Playing Blues Guitar Today Today I’ll you how to play 7 essential blues guitar chords. Using these 7 chords, and your knowledge of the twelve bar blues progression, you will be able to play blues guitar in 5 essential keys: C, A, G, E, and D. If you don’t know the twelve bar blues, [...]
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How To Play Blues Guitar

So you want to learn how to play blues guitar. Where should you start? I’m going to give you 5 tips to help you get started. I’ll have lots more information in future posts, too, so stay tuned. Tip 1: Decide What You Mean By “Blues Guitar” Saying you want to learn blues guitar is [...]
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