Beginner Guitar Lessons Series #2

Today we are bringing you even more guitar lessons for beginners!  This entire set of lessons is brought to you by Tom Fontana over at TheGuitarLesson.com.  In this series he will take you through the basics and teach you a lot of the chords and scales that you will need to build upon as you continue learning in your preferred style of music.  Grab your guitar and click on one of the lessons below to get started.  Oh, and if you are looking for a VERY inexpensive way to get started learning, I think Tom has a very good deal for $9/mo over at TheGuitarLesson.com.

Guitar Basics Everyone has to start somewhere and this is the perfect place to start!  Tom lays down the basics of playing guitar in this video.

How to Play Guitar Chords A chord is a combination of notes all played together to make a sound. In this lesson Tom Fontana covers some of the basic chords you will need to know.

How to Change Chords Got those chords down?  Good! Because it is time to take it a step further and practice switching between chords.  In this session there are some great tips on how to do just that.  Don’t give up, this one takes a while!

Guitar Strumming Got rhythm?  Believe it or not, it can be learned!  Try some of these strumming patterns to get you started.

Guitar Notes, and Tuning The Guitar In this lesson you will learn how to properly tune the guitar and also begin learning all of the notes on the fretboard so that you will be able to recognize them while playing.

Fingerpicking By learning these fingerpicking techniques you will be able to easily play and separate the notes in a chord to make a much different sound.

Barre Chords Barre chords are often one of the most difficult things to master when first learning guitar due to the amount of strength needed to hold all of the strings down at once.  In this lesson Tom gives you a few pointers to help you practice and shows you the common barre chord forms.

Lead Guitar In this lesson you will learn some of the basics to playing lead guitar such as how to play hammer-ons, pull-offs, and pentatonic scales.

More Lead Guitar Tricks Tom shows you a few more lead guitar tricks in this lesson including vibrato, sliding, string bending, palm muting, and power chords

Improvisation and Scales Here you will learn a the minor and pentatonic scales and learn how to use these scales to improvise while playing lead guitar.