If you’ve ever contacted me on any guitar-related question, you’ll know that I answer all of my students’ questions personally. I love doing so for people learning from our beginner guitar lessons. There are a lot of typical questions and problems that my online students encounter, so I thought a post on these would be…
Rock & Roll is not as popular as it used to be, but lots of people still love listening to it. If you’re one of them, you’ll be happy to know that we have several Rock n Roll guitar lessons on TheGuitarLesson.com, which will have you playing these songs in no time. Just as a…
One of the most common problems that beginner guitarists experience is the “fat finger” issue. I put it into quotation marks, because 95% of the time, it’s not a real problem, just a newbie thing. No matter whether they have short and chubby fingers, or long and skinny ones, beginners will always have difficulty fretting…
One of my online students just wrote me a letter, asking whether he needs to learn to read standard music notation, or is tablature enough. …a few guys locally who are in the local music biz and they all tell me that guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, should only be taught with the standard music notation……
Do your fingertips hurt right from playing guitar? Don’t worry, it’s part of the learning process. Be comforted by the fact that all beginners go through this, and the pain will go away with time once your calluses develop. Actually, after a while, you’ll get to like the feeling of soreness in your fingertip, since…
All beginner guitarists struggle with switching between chords at first, thats part of the learning curve. Here are some tips on the subject, but make sure you watch our video lesson on how to change between guitar chords, where I will show you the correct technique of learning chord changes. Watch my hands closely to…
One of the most common questions I get from my students (both online and offline) is: Tom, what’s the easiest way to learn guitar? If I had a dollar for every time I heard that 🙂 So, my young Padawans, let’s have a look at this question in detail. Can learning guitar be easy? If you are…