Where Can I Learn to Play Guitar (chords) Online for Free?

What’s this week’s learn guitar question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: I’ve had my guitar for a few months but I can never seem to play it right so it’s just been sitting in my bedroom and I’m dying to play with it so I can sing and it can help me instead of only the piano, so I’ve searched it on google, all the ones I’ve found or sites either have viruses, require payment, a download, or a signup. I want one that’s free, easy, quick, and can get me playing basic guitar chords in no-time! Thanks! :)
Answer: http://freeandeasyguitar.com/
the guy has a lot of tutorial vids on different chords and songs. very helpful. i’ve had a guitar for about a month and ive learned about 3 songs by watching him.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

go to lessons(top of page) and browse.

Songs to Learn on the Guitar from Experienced People?

Keep the learn guitar questions coming! I liked this one:

Question: I’ve been playing a little under a year and I have a quite small list of songs that I know how to actually play. Such as, Drive by Incubus, Closing Time by Semisonic, Wonderwall by Oasis, and Couple songs by 3 Doors Down & City and Colour. and I feel a bit behind compared to my friends.

I’ve recently gotten a acoustic so I’m kind of limited to some songs that I would like to play, and I would like to learn more songs.

Any help out there? Also any sites that I could also check out that informs about Scales, Ect.?
(Places that you’ve actually been to, not just google’ing and then posting it saying it seems legit) I know alot of people do that on this site.

Answer: I definately recomend learning stuff from Mason Williams. He wrote Classical Gas, and its an amazing fingerpicking song. Its a good song to practice your fingerpicking not to mention, its a very beautiful song. Um, if you really really absolutely want to amaze crowds and just to be different in your style, I recomend learning ‘Slap Acoustic Guitar’. There are all sorts of amazing guitarists that have this style of guitar, I always get the ‘jaw drop’ effect whenever I play music like that. You should look up ‘Candy Rat Records’ They have amazing artists with beautiful music. Excellent Choice on the acoustic :) ,

Look up Andy Mckee,
Acoustic stuff by Zakk Wylde is good aswell,
I dont know, Add me

acoustic_36@hotmail.com
and ill give you more recomendations if you like.

Can I Be Able to Play Guitar Without Lessons?

This week’s question is as follows:

Question: I really try everyday to keep learning to play guitar. Like, I play it every day and I know some chords and I look up lessons on YouTube or Google. But my family’s pretty poor and we can’t keep affording lessons :( it’s hard nowadays. However, would I be able to be good or decent enough to play some songs I like on guitar if I played it everyday and looked up lessons online everyday?
Answer: Hello there,

Before I answer your answer, I want to say that I also disagree with the second answer. Lessons can be very worthwhile. The part about developing your own style because you do not have a teacher is pure rubbish. A good instructor will encourage you to develop your own style. I have no data to support this, but my gut feeling is that people who learn without lessons are more likely to simply copy the style of what they hear and see, because they have no one to encourage them to go beyond that. However, not everyone does have access to a teacher. Not everyone can afford private lessons. So, while private lessons are worthwhile, not everyone is going to get them.

Now to your question. Yes you can learn. Many of us originally learned without lessons. Back in my day, there was no one giving rock guitar lessons in the area. That was pretty much the case back in the 50s and 60s. Yet, a lot of good guitarists learned to play during the 50s and 60s.

It is much easier to learn to play on your own these days than back when I learned. The internet has a lot of good instructional materials available.

Here is a link to a series of video lessons. These may help you get the basics down better. This guy has a series of 12 video lessons at Youtube. He covers the basics pretty well. You can find the other lessons in the related videos section there. He uses an electric in the lessons, but most of the material translates well to the acoustic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxhxIV0I5T8&feature=related

Just in case you have not already learned how to read tabs, here is a link to an article that explains them.

http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/lessons/the-basics/how-to-read-guitar-tab/

This one is a chord chart. Down load the PDF file to your computer. Then you can look through it for various ways to play a chord.

http://www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/notes2/ultimate11.shtml

If you want to learn some songs, you can do a Google search using the song name and the word tabs. That should give you like to places that have the guitar tabs. Those will be places like 911 Tabs, Tabs.com and others. You can also use the search feature at Youtube to find lessons for particular songs. Search the song name and the words how to play or the word lesson. There are a lot of good instructional videos available on Youtube.

Later

Wanna Start Playing Electric Guitar but Don't Wanna Pay for Lessons, and Good Online Tutorials?

A tough guitar lessons question this week. Let’s dive straight in

Question: Just bought a pink electric guitar, originally for retro room decoration but actually wanna learn it now. Dont really have the money for lessons so was wondering about any good online tutorials to help me get the hang of things, tried a few from Google but not too good. :S Help…
Answer: Hey Jade, see if any of these strike a chord, sorry.

General Topic Guitar Sites

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/

http://www.guitarcenter.com/shop/guitar/navigation/guitar?N=100005+324262+8&page=1

http://www.daddydoodle.com/

http://www.daddydoodle.com/how2tune.html

http://www.top100guitarsites.com/

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/p/fpm108/glw/lessons/lesson2.htm

Electric guitar:

http://www.infovisual.info/04/032_en.html

Classical guitar:

http://www.infovisual.info/04/030_en.html

Semi-acoustic guitar:

http://www.infovisual.info/04/031_en.html