If you're trying to find instructions on how to learn a specific new guitar technique, like tapping or string bending, this page will help you find what you're looking for.
Think you know your major chords? You might want to think again! This lesson offers practical study of major chord inversions used commonly by players like John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
A free online guitar lesson on how to learn to play the blues like B.B. King. Includes mp3 clips, tablature, and many written examples of great BB King guitar riffs.
Learning the harmonic minor scale should help take your guitar playing to the next level. Check out this feature on the many uses of the harmonic minor scale.
The pentatonic scale is one of the most commonly used in all styles of music. This lesson walks guitarists through learning to play the major and minor pentatonic scale in five positions, all over the guitar fretboard.
The pentatonic scale is the most widely used scale in popular music today. The following are a hand-selected collection of YouTube instructional guitar videos designed to help guitarists learn their pentatonic scales. Start with the first link, and work your way slowly down the list of links. Move on to the next video only after you've fully absorbed, and memorized the material covered.
Trying to find out how to play a specific guitar chord? This handy page provides illustrations of hundreds of different guitar chords.
Interested in learning to play the major scale all over the fretboard, and also learn the modes of the major scale in the process? Check out this series of major scale diagrams.
Here's a great feature, written by your About.com guide, on how to learn to strum like the pros. Valid for both electric or acoustic guitarists.
An analysis (with tab and audio) of 4 great blues guitarists. Learn to play like your favorite blues guitarist, or at least learn some new licks!
Have you heard about "modes", but never really understood what they are? Here's an introduction to the dorian mode, that will spice up your guitar solos. Including mp3 and tab examples of famous guitar solos that use dorian.
If you feel like all your guitar solos sound the same, this lesson will introduce you to the exotic sounding harmonic minor scale. Feature includes the scale's uses in rock music, and provides play-a-long mp3 and RealAudio files for you to practice with.
A lesson created to help you learn the names of the notes on your fretboard, from your About.com guide.
Take the first steps towards learning to play your own guitar solos.
In part 2 of this feature, we examine how to go about improving your ability to solo.
Think you're a good rhythm guitarist? This lesson will give you the tools to write guitar parts like the ones created by Jimi Hendrix, or John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
A detailed explanation, with mp3 and real audio clips, of how to play a major scale on guitar, in two octaves. Part of the
Learning Guitar series of lessons.
This lesson illustrates 12 different voicings for any minor chord. Teaches guitarists to play minor chords through the music of Santana.
An in-depth study into the performance, and application, of this middle-eastern sounding scale.
A lesson explaining how to play some of the chord techniques used in songs like Hendrix's Little Wing.
From Cyberfret.com, a tutorial that is short on description, but contains helpful images on how to play major and minor arpeggios.
From Jazz Guitar Online, a short primer on one of the scales used extensively in jazz. Site also includes several pages (
1,
2,
3) of "licks" based on the scale.
A nice tutorial on the "flat five" subsitution commonly used in jazz music. Also discusses the cycle of fourths/fifths substitutions.
From Guitarmain.com, a strong lesson on diminished chords. Also briefly details diminished arpeggios and scales.
A text only explanation of some unusual and rare scales.
This very cool site offers an in-depth look at many unusual and common chords. Scroll through the archive on the left side of the page.
From Guitar Lesson World, instruction on how to go about playing artificial harmonics on the guitar.
In an article written for
Guitar Player Magazine by Fareed Haque, the guitarist explains several steps that rockers can take to infuse new sounds into their solos.
From the Better Guitar website, instruction on how to master using octaves without resorting to a pedal.
Lesson showing two and three-string power chords. Knowing the fretboard is necessary for proper usage of these chords.
