Category: Beginner Acoustic Guitar

In this post you will discover some great tips, techniques and exercises that will help you switch between your basic beginner open guitar chords easier and faster.  In order to become better at this, you need to learn some tricks of the trade as well as put in the proper amount of practice time.  Eventually,...

Learn how to play the song Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri with this free acoustic guitar tutorial. This is Christina’s debut single released on iTunes in 2007.  It is from her album Lovestrong.  Learn more about the song over at Wikipedia. This song is not really a beginner song, but it isn’t super difficult...

Here is a new strumming pattern lesson for acoustic guitar.  It is taught by David Taub with Next Level Guitar. This is an 11 minute video excerpt from Next Level Guitar’s “Acoustic Guitar Technqiues” 4 DVD course that includes over 8 hours of instruction.  Highly recommended if you want to take your Guitar Playing to...

Here is a lesson from Steve Krenz with Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar.  It is a lesson from his monthly video Newsletter on how to get more out of simple chord progressions. He starts the lesson by taking a look at a very simple open chord progression of D Major, G Major and A Major....

Learn how to play the song Mean by Taylor Swift with this free acoustic guitar song lesson.  Mean is off of Taylor’s third studio album entitled Speak Now . It was released in May of 2011.  This song received good success in the US and Canada. It debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot...

Learn how to play the C Minor 6 (also known as Cm6) guitar chord with this free guitar lesson.  Below are three different ways to play this chord.  All three are advanced and rather challenging if you are just starting out.  They require advanced techniques like muting strings and barring.  Don’t get discouraged if you...

The Circle of Fifths is not a new concept.  It was first seen in a treatise called Grammatika that was written by a composer by the name of Nikolai Diletskii back in 1679. Read the full article over at Wikipedia. The Circle of Fifths is essentially a tool used by musicians to help them understand...

Learn how to play the Am6 guitar chord (also known as A minor 6, A Minor 6th) with this lesson.   The A Minor 6  Chord  is found by locating the 1, b3, 5 and 6 steps of the  A Major Scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, or the notes A, C, E and F#....

Onto our next key in our series of chords that fall within a particular key.  Today, you will learn what guitar chords fall within the key of B Major. This tutuorial on the Guitar Chords in t he Key of B Major is organized into two sections.  The first part will be dealing with what...

Learn how to play the song “Times Like These “ by the Foo Fighters with this free easy acoustic guitar song lesson.  This song is the second single off the bands fourth album entitled “One By One” released in 2003. Learn a lot more about this song over at Wikipedia. This lesson will teach you how...