Learn How To Play The Guitar Series - Learn How To Play The Guitar

Author’s Note:

As a guitar player of 4 years, I still find the best way of learning the guitar is by watching videos. I especially like the free Jayde Musica software include with JAMORAMA. It make learning to read music quite fun. But I still hate reading music...

Ben Edwards who is a highly respected guitar teacher and the former lead guitarist for the popular down-under band "DegreesK" takes you on a visual learning experience with his step-by-step video/audio training program.

Jamorama now contains 84 step-by-step guitar lessons (supported by video and audio files) in three high quality books that take you on a journey from beginner to advance in your guitar playing. This includes 54 new high-quality video lessons, over 400 sound files and hundreds of lines of tablature, and Ben’s hugely popular software learning games.

You will learn how to play along with a band with Ben’s hugely popular step-by-step jamming lessons. These include 16 exclusive Jam Tracks for you to jam along with! These Jam Tracks have been recorded to cover a wide range of musical styles including rock, jazz, country, blues, hip-hop and dance. You will see your guitar playing skills sky-rocket!

Why waste hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on expensive guitar teachers? Ben will show you all of their tips and tricks. He has even included sounds files so you can play along with him. And, unlike a teacher, you can repeat each song or riff over and over again until you get it correct and professional sounding.

Ben will also show you how to perform the trickiest of guitar skills. That's over ten years worth of expensive and hard won information in a simple and easy to follow format. An amazing comprehensive knowledge at your finger tips!

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Learn How To Play Guitar - Basic Guitar Lessons

When attempting to learn how to play the guitar, it is not necessary to master the scales as that may be problematical for you. What happens is that the person loses patience and may become very angry. The end result is they end up hating the guitar. The key to learning how to play guitar is enjoyment. Have patience, in time it can be mastered subconsciously. If the note you are trying to play is not sounding as good as you think it should, let it go. To learn how to play the guitar as well as any instrument takes practice, persistence and patience.

Learn How To The Play Guitar - Frets

Knowing what the parts of a guitar are is the very first necessary part of learning how to play the guitar. Right-handed guitar players use their left hand for picking and holding the guitar’s neck and the right hand for strumming. It is important that the body of your guitar to sit comfortably on your right thigh as if it were following your own body. Located along the guitar’s neck are pieces of metal that are called frets. These frets are where the guitar strings are attached and they are the main source of the guitar’s sound. The guitar's strings will vibrate when strummed, but the only way that true sound can come out of your guitar is if the guitar strings are pressed on the guitar's fret board.

Learn How To Play The Guitar - Scales

The sound or music that comes out of the guitar is based on the modern or western scale of twelve tones. The letters A to G symbolize the scales which helps in making them easy to remember. And with the guitar like all of the other musical instruments, you also have the “flat”, the “sharp” and the “natural.” The tones are read as A, A#, B, B#, C, C#, etc. In your quest to learn how to play the guitar you will discover that music is remarkably similar to math; for every sound wave that travels in the air there is an equivalent sound.

Learn How To Play The Guitar - Guitar Strings

As for the guitar strings, there are six guitar strings on most classical guitars, acoustic guitars and electric guitars but there can be as many as 12 strings on some custom guitars and as few as four on bass guitars. If the guitar is resting on the lap, the lowest part of it is placed on top of the thigh. By pressing the frets on the guitar's fret board you will create different notes. Because octaves are different, you will find that there are many instances when two notes of the same scales will have different sounds.

Learn How To Play The Guitar - Tuning The Guitar

When it is time to tune your guitar don't sweat it, tuning the guitar is easy. You can listen to a pitch pipe or a piano for matching notes; or if you are among the lucky musicians who are blessed with keen ears, then all you need to do is listen to the notes the guitar's strings create. To tune A, press the E string on the fifth fret. With the help of turning the string pegs, the exact sound of the note can be achieved. The exact same procedure is done to tune all of other notes with the exception for tuning the G and B strings. Enjoy your journey on learning how to play the guitar.