While rhythm and bass guitar definitely are important and special to the composition of a song, it’s truly a lead guitar world.Most people get into the guitar because they want to learn the lead guitar. Can you really blame them? Everyone wants the spotlight and command of the string instruments with amazing riffs and guitar solos.

However usually it takes years (and some natural ability) to become a leader and it’s no different in the guitar world.

Are you ready for lead guitar lessons?

Excellent because little do you know lead guitar is going to sharpen up all your skills including your speed.

Just how fast will you improve with lead guitar lessons?

How does an average of four times faster sound?

It sounds really sweet, right?

When you become the lead guitarist you’re expected to carry the show. The remaining guitarists are expected to add support through rhythm and bass. Because of this common known fact, this guitarist often is the most talented and experienced guitarist in the band.

Lead guitar lessons will work a lot with speed, timing, and complex rhythms. As you progress, the added complexity will easily make you four times faster on the frets than before.

These lessons should warn you up and allow you to play accurate and fast leads without requiring a large amount of time or becoming too tedious and time commanding.

Focus on playing the guitar lessons daily. This really isn’t up for negotiation because only through a lot of repetition will you master the art of the guitar.

But do not confuse the main point of lead guitar. They’re not here to stump or take a lot of your time. Most advanced guitarists will spend five to ten minutes a day working on one or two guitar exercises. The rest of the time is either devoted towards working on chords, fills, or solos.

Repetition on the guitar is extremely important. The guitarist will never truly improve until the individual will devout a consistent amount of time each day to practicing and improving.

However the biggest misconception is the more the better. Actually, most professionals recommended between thirty and forty minutes each day. The reasoning is this time frame allows enough time to work on your skills and technique without wearing you down with demand.

I believe one guitarist once referred to it as, “concrete practice.” Not too much, but not too little. Focus 100% of the practice time on improving and improving correctly through the instructor’s techniques and the strict repetition will eventually pay off.

Many people would like to be able to learn to play the guitar. But they usually lack good advice on where to start. They have questions like:

- What kind of guitar to buy?

- How much to spend on a guitar?

- Where to get (online) guitar lessons?

What kind of guitar to buy?

Depending on what kind of guitar you want to learn to play, you can choose between:

A) Electric Guitar (you need an amplifier for that)

B) Spanish acoustic guitar

C) Country & Western (acoustic) Guitar

D) Classical (acoustic) Guitar.

Your choice of guitar depends on the style you want to learn to play. If you want to learn to play classical music then the choice is obvious. For pop music you can choose electrical or country and western, I suggest, learning to play the acoustic guitar first, but that is my personal opinion.

How much to spend on a guitar?

When I bought my first guitar it was not an expensive one. Go to a local music/instrument dealer and ask advice on what kind of guitars they are selling especially for the beginner. Remember to look for a guitar between $150 and $ 500 …no more no less!! And keep in mind the guitar type you chose, do not make the sales person have you buy an electrical guitar when you want to learn to play classical music! (This may sound obvious, but some people have a salesperson convince them they made the right choice!)

Where to get (online) guitar lessons?

There is not just one answer to this question. It all depends on what you are looking for and how your personal situation is:

If you want to study outdoors, inform at the local music store about music teachers, or check with your community center. If you rather study and practice at the convenience of your own home, then you have several options (options that I did not have years back):

- Find a DVD/CD-rom course for beginners. - Or if you want to study from a book, there are great books available at your local book store especially for learning to play guitar. - Another great option to choose is to be able to study at home by using an online guitar course, there are several that you can pick from. The best choice (in my humble opinion) would be to choose an online guitar course with a live teacher, and live interaction. This will help you much more, because of the interaction between you and the teacher.

Also there is a lot of practical and useful information available online. From “guitar tabs” website to online tutorials or E-books, you just have to find a good one that works for you.

If you are a beginner who wants to learn to play the guitar, at home or outside of your home and need more advice then please ask me.

I do hope you were able to use this information to have some directions and start to learn to play the guitar. My Guitar Website

Many factors come into play when successfully learning to play the guitar. Whether you aspire to play professionally or you just want to learn for yourself, setting up the right conditions for learning and progress is absolutely essential. Let’s take a look at 4 simple steps to successfully learning to play the guitar.1. Laying The Foundation and Understanding Chords

The first step to do anything successfully is to lay a strong foundation. Buildings collapse without a strong foundation. You wouldn’t run a marathon without training, would you? It’s no different with guitar. In order to build that foundation for successful guitar playing, the first thing you need to know is proper positioning. By this we mean sitting positions, holding positions, fret hand positions, and pick hand positions. Included in positioning is how to fret strings, how to hold the pick, positioning the guitar, etc. This may sound somewhat elementary, but the benefits of doing this correctly are numerous. You will be comfortable playing/practicing guitar; you will have minimal tension in your hands and arms. Overall, this makes guitar playing an enjoyable experience and pave the way for great playing.

The second part of the first step is understanding chords. At the most basic, chords are 3 or more notes played together. One note is the root note. The root note is the same as the chord. For example, the note A is the root note of the A chord. Certain chords sound better together than others, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves a bit. The main thing to take away is that chords are 3 or more notes played together, and they are the foundation of guitar music.

2. Tuning Your Guitar To Itself

This concept may sound confusing. Guitars need to be in tune to sound correct. There are 2 main ways to tune a guitar. You can use an electronic tuner, or you can tune your guitar to itself. Tuning the guitar to itself is a vital skill and will train your ear like no other exercise. The best part is that you start developing your ear for pitch early in your guitar playing. Believe it or not, your ear is your most valuable tool in guitar playing. Being able to recognize notes and chords by ear will give you the enviable skill of playing songs by ear.

3. Reading Guitar Tablature

Guitar tablature is a very common method of writing guitar music. It is much easier to understand than traditional music notation. Beginning guitarists are often in a state of information overload with new skills, sounds, etc. Tablature, or tab, is a way to combat the confusing nature of traditional written music. In guitar tab, there are six horizontal lines representing the 6 strings of the guitar. The numbers you will see represent the fret that should be played on that string. Also, chord diagrams are written in tabs. These chord diagrams spell out exactly which notes to play to play a certain chords. Understanding guitar tablature will make the process of successfully learning guitar simpler.

4. Chord Progressions

Once you have a working knowledge of guitar tab, you can use chord diagram tabs to learn specific chords. Chord progressions are nothing more than 2 or more chords played sequentially. For example, you may strum a D chord and then change to an A chord. This is a chord progression. Playing chord progressions will help you determine which chords go together-a benefit of your ear training from step 2. There is also a simple formula for determining which chords go together, and your ear will confirm this. Once you have three or four chords that appeal to you, or a few chords that you have mastered, practice playing them one after the other. This will enhance your chord knowledge and playing skill.

As you can see, each step builds on the previous. They also work in conjunction with each other. There are many avenues for more advanced guitar instruction, but learning these 4 simple steps will lay the best foundation possible for successfully learning to play. If any of these steps sound confusing or you’re not sure how to do certain things, check out the link in the “about the author” paragraph below. Each of these steps is explained much more thoroughly and in depth. There are lesson sections as well as audio and video checks so you can check your progress. Check out the free course and be on your way to playing like the pros.

Mistakes are somewhat inevitable when learning to play the guitar. These include playing the wrong note to developing a bad practice habit. One is minor and the other is major. Obviously, major mistakes are more important to avoid. Avoiding these types of mistakes will allow to progress at a much faster rate. Let’s look at some common, major mistakes most learning guitarists make and how to avoid them.Most guitarists in the earlier stages of learning practice too much, believe it or not. They often think they have to devote hours at a time to the guitar. This simply is not true. Ever heard of quality over quantity? It applies here. Let’s say for example that you can devote a total of one hour per day to guitar. It’s better to have four 15 minute sessions than one long session. There are several reasons for this. One, practicing for one hour straight will lead to frustration and a loss of focus. Frustration is the number one reason people quit guitar. Two, it’s a fact that the brain retains more from shorter bursts of practicing. So having shorter sessions with more intense focus will greatly benefit your learning guitar.

Another major mistake is playing too fast. What I mean here is learning a piece of music, whether it is a song, scale, chord progression, whatever…then trying to play it at too fast a pace. If you’re just learning the piece, you will not be able to play it like a pro yet. This is a very common and major mistake. Playing too fast too soon is a sure path to frustration as well as a bad practice habit. To correct this, play the piece as slowly as you need to play it correctly. Then scale up as needed. This will develop a good practice habit and eliminate frustration with your progress.

Playing music that is too complicated for your current level is also a major mistake. I know everyone wants to learn to play their favorite songs. But if you are a relatively new guitar player, how would you know if the song is complicated or not? Trying to play pieces too complicated for your current level will certainly lead to frustration. See a recurring theme? Many just press on until the guitar looks like a chore rather than fun. Believe me; you can get plenty of enjoyment out of playing simple pieces of music. Start simple, and then as your skills improve, you will be able to play more complicated songs.

I bet you have noticed a recurring theme here about starting simple and building on that. The other thing I bet you have noticed is that avoiding these mistakes will greatly reduce frustration. Getting enjoyment out of guitar playing is your number one priority. By avoiding these major learning mistakes, you will enjoy guitar more and learn much faster.

This is a very common question amongst beginning guitarists. Often, these new players see thick guitar chord books or one of those chord chart posters with seemingly hundreds of chord diagrams, and they become overwhelmed. But guess what? It is true. All you really need to know are 3 chords. Let us find out which ones and why.When songs are written, they are written in something called a key. A key is represented by a letter on the musical scale, for example the key of D, or the key of G. Within the key, and therefore the song, there are three primary chords. These are the chords you need to know. If you want to strum your guitar and sing along with your favorite songs, all you need to do is find out these primary chords.

What you will then do is listen to the song and play those three chords along with the song. You will very soon figure out the order. It’s even better if you have the song chords in front of you. Just go online and look for tabs or chords for the song. Often, you will see the song lyrics with chords above certain words in the lyrics. This indicates where you will change from playing one chord to the next. (The chords, like keys, are represented by letters in the musical scale such as A or F.) From here on out, all you have to do is figure out the strum pattern of the song.

At this point you are probably thinking, Wait, songs are written in different keys; I then have to know the primary chords for every key, right? This is a very intelligent question. The answer; however, is no. What we will look at now is how to find the primary chords for a key. Then I will show you how to transpose those chords to any key.

This point is best illustrated with an example. Remember there are three primary chords to a key. We will use the key of D in this example. The three primary chords in this key are D, A, and G. How do I know this? I used a simple formula that works for any key. What you do is list out the major musical notes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) starting with the key letter. In this case it is D, E, F, G, A, B, C. The formula is 1, 4, 5. Start with D as 1 then count to the fourth and fifth letters. So you have D, G, and A as the three primary chords. This process works for any key.

Suppose you only learn these 3 chords and you find a song with the primary chords F, C, and G. What key is this? Let’s use the process above to find out. Well F and G follow each other in the alphabet, so they are obviously the fourth and fifth letters. Therefore, C is the first letter and the key. Now, how do you, who only know D, G, and A chords, play a song in the key of C? Simple. Transpose the chords by using the formula. In the key of C, the 1, 4, 5 formula gives C, F, and G. In the key of D, the 1, 4, 5 formula gives D, G, and A. So in place of C, play D. In place of F, play G. In place of G, play A. Then just strum along to the song.

The cool thing is you can do this for any chords in key. Whenever you see chords different from those you know, simply transpose them to the three chords you do know. Of course, the more chords you know, the better and more diverse guitarist you will be. You should make an effort to learn and use as many chords as possible. But to strum along with just about any song, you only need to know three chords.