HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR

Welcome to www.how2playguitar.co.uk.
Click on the links below for free lessons, chords, scales, arpeggios and finger exercises.
The plan is to update this site with new resources as often as possible, so please do keep coming back.

LESSONS

1.Tuning up, The fretboard, music basics and the chromatic scale.
2.A basic set of chords, and various ways to play them.
3.Another set of chords, new ways to play.
4.A directory of open chords, the power chord.
5.The three chord trick and the 12 bar blues.
6.Basic E and A shape barre chords, basic songwriting.
7.The Major scale, chord construction.
8.Jazz basics - 7th chords and the 2-5-1 chord progression
9.Using a capo - the easy way to play in any key
10.Various playing techniques
11.Alternate tunings
12.Triads, inversions and slash chords.

BACKING TRACKS

1.Backing tracks - jazz, blues, funk
2.Backing tracks - rock, indie, metal

12 FRET PATTERNS - SCALES

1.The Major scale and its 7 modes
2.More scales
3.Even more scales

12 FRET PATTERNS - ARPEGGIOS

1.Arpeggios
2.More arpeggios

TABLATURE - FINGER EXERCISES

1.Finger exercises 1
2.Finger exercises 2

GUITAR HEROES - BIOGRAPHIES AND VIDEOS

Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Jimi Hendrix
'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott
Lawson Rollins NEW

Yngwie Malmsteen
Eddie Van Halen
Eric Clapton
Randy Rhoads

Edgar Cruz
Rik Emmett
Frank Zappa
John Petrucci

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