Easy Rock Guitar Lessons
Okay, so you've never picked up a guitar before. You've thought about it, you've dreamed about it, but you haven't quite jumped over the edge.
Let's change that today. In fact, let's not only pick up the guitar - let's learn how to play something right now.
This is your first easy rock guitar lesson, and you can play this on an electric guitar, or an acoustic guitar.
Signature Licks on the Guitar
You pull out a pen and sign a check, or a credit card slip. Then later in the day you sign off on a report for work, or a correspondence to a friend.
Each time, your signature looks the same (or fairly close) as it did when you signed before. It's your own mark, uniquely you. It's what separates you from the hordes.
A signature lick on the guitar is very much the same. It is a lick or riff that clearly identifies a song.
It's important to note the difference between a signature lick, and a lead lick.
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Guitar Arpeggios Verses Guitar Scales
As you advance in your guitar studies you will surely come across the study of arpeggios. For many new guitarists arpeggios can be confusing, but they don't need to be.
One reason they cause some confusion is that - even though arpeggios are played as a series of single notes, similar to scales - they are not the same as scales.
The first step is to clear up the differences between arpeggios and scales.
Acoustic Or Electric Guitar Lessons?
One of the hardest things for a new guitar student to do is to decide whether to start out on an electric guitar, or acoustic guitar. One of the questions I am asked a lot is what the difference is between electric guitar lessons programs, and lessons for acoustic guitar.
The first thing to understand is that there a number of basic similarities between the two - as well as differences.
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Learn the Guitar Notes - 6 Shortcuts
When first getting started on learning how to play guitar one of the first things you will want to is learn the guitar notes.
In the beginning this can seem a little overwhelming. On a guitar with 22 frets, each fret contains 6 individual notes, for a total of 132 notes.
That's a lot to learn for a new guitar player!
Here are some things you can do to make learning the guitar notes easier.
