If you have never picked up a guitar before or are a beginner player and have a passing interest in guitar I have just the thing for you. It is a free guitar lesson I wrote to teach a small handful of students. The document is in Word format and is located here. I hope you enjoy it. I was going to post it here but it would take way to long to reformat it from it’s simple outline form.
You can visit my web site to download a few songs I wrote. Go to the music page using the menu button. Happy picking! http://www.joseph-d-polizzi.com Just for the record, the guitar lesson is there too! Tell your friends!!!
INTERNET RESOURCES FOR GUITAR PLAYERS AND MUSICIANS
- About.com has AWESOME guitar lessons FREE. You can go to http://guitar.about.com/ but I suggest you start here: http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200a.htm
- Use http://wikipedia.com/ to research scales, chords, or how to read music. e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Lessons
- Billion Chords- Shareware chord builder. Cheap but good. I use this. http://www.chordeditor.com/ Free trial version.
- Want to dig deeper? Here is a music theory site for guitarists: http://www.essentialguitar.com/
- Fun animated shred show. For the rockers! http://www.guitarshredshow.com/
- Lessons. Guitar Heroes. Practice tips. The web-based vehicle for one of Guitar’s most popular magazines: http://www.guitarplayertv.com/
- Another guitar lesson site. FREE http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/index.htm
- Find out how to make any chord online FREE and how it sounds! http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php
- A free recording studio package. You can record multiple tracks and play along with yourself or a drum loop. How cool is that? Audacity for the PC. Mac/Linux versions available too! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
- Incredible Midi software to help you get started with your own free backup bands! One of my favorite FREE software packages. http://www.anvilstudio.com/upgraden.htm
- Another good online chord speller: http://sologuitarist.net/chord_speller/chord_speller.html
- Advanced tools for learning real Music Theory and how it applies to the guitar! http://chrisjuergensen.com.hosting.domaindirect.com/lessons.htm
- Riffster- mentioned earlier. Slow down solos from MP3 without changing the pitch so you can learn them by ear! http://www.novadsp.com/riffster_lite.htm
- Two Great word processors for guitarist’s to write lyrics with chord boxes over them- Chordwriter: http://www.appcabin.com/ Lyricist: (30 day trial- but great software) http://www.virtualstudiosystems.com/content.php?pg=l_features
- I strongly urge you to download and install these fonts: http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/frets.html The reason you will want to do this is so you can see the guitar chords in Word documents.
My advice is: don’t get discouraged; if it is hard to make a chord- don’t worry- come back to it later. It is like conquering levels in a video game. It is hard to get Crash Bandicoot to do what you want the first time and it takes lots of tries. Guitar playing takes practice. Just keep picking and grinning and don’t give up. It will all sink in- in due time.
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