Electric Guitar Lessons

Learn Electric Guitar - The Basics Of The Electric Guitar

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:05:54 GMT

If you have already had a guitar lesson or two, either with a live teacher or a guitar lessons dvd, you might have found that you need to decide whether to learn electric guitar or acoustic.

Today’s free electric guitar lesson is on the electric guitar and is conducted by Lisa Purnell. Lisa Pursell has been learning and teaching the guitar for many years. She started out with classical guitar in Atlanta and moving to California to study and eventually join the faculty of the Musicians Institute. She has also a lot of time composing songs and instrumentals. Her first record was all an all-instrumental CD featuring some covers and an original tune. Lisa has taken the inusual step of producing a book of music theory that you can understand without learning to read music!

Tips For Playing Lead Guitar

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:04 GMT

There are many techniques used in playing lead guitar – vibrato, slides, bends, pull-offs and hammer-ons. You will have your favorites among the various techniques but you will need to learn all of them if you want to be an interesting lead guitar player.

Learn To Play The Dog Pound Hop On Guitar

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:14 GMT

The subject of today’s post is an electric guitar instrumental piece that will help you develop your rhythmic sense and your appreciation of the jazz/blues genre. The secret to playing this piece is the ability to let go of your need to be in control of your playing and to let the music play through you.

Learn to play power chords

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:22 GMT

These are two-note chords that are used a lot in punk and metal music but can go with any kind of music on an electric guitar.

Who’s The Greatest Rock Guitarist?

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:30 GMT

If we think about who we consider to be the world's greatest rock guitarist, names from the sixties and seventies, like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton immediately appear in our heads.

Metal Guitar Fight Club

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:38 GMT

Metal guitarists from all over the world gather to match up in head to head online guitar battles.

Learning About Your Amp Settings

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:45 GMT

Part of playing famous guitar riffs is getting your guitar to sound like the original recording.

Squier Electric Guitars

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:06:53 GMT

If you are looking to buy your first guitar this post will guide you gently in the direction of the Squier Bullet.

Your Next Stratocaster From eBay?

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:02 GMT

Your Next Stratocaster From eBay?

Classical Electric Guitars

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:09 GMT

Has the contemporary music of the twenty-first century made a place for a nylon string guitar with amplification and distortion?

The Jimi Hendrix Guitar Chord

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:16 GMT

Jimi was not the first guitar player to make use of this chord but he made his generation of guitarists aware of how one chord could say so much.

Learn About The Control Knobs On Your Electric Guitar

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:24 GMT

A tutorial on learning how to use the controls on your electric guitar.

Misa Guitar

ricky@playaguitarforfree.com (Ricky Sharples) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:33 GMT

The Misa Guitar is really a midi controller but it looks like a guitar, waddles like a guitar and quacks like a guitar.