Guitar Lessons Online - Basic Guitar Lessons for Beginners

If you have looked online to find some free, easy guitar lessons you probably have found that most of them are not so very useful. Yes, there are many websites that you can look at but not all of them will help you in any certain way. And what is worse is that while some will show you tips, they might actually not teach you anything.

Whenever you venture into learning anything it is always best to learn the right way to do it, learning to play the guitar is the same. Picking up a bad habit is always easy to do, but if you start with bad habits at the beginning of your guitar playing odds are that you will have a hard time breaking them later on.

There are many things that you should consider when looking for free, easy to learn guitar lessons online. Things such as whether or not they teach you how to hold the guitar as well as how to hold the pick. Also you will need to learn the chord names, finger placement and progressions. Well, and let's not forget the scale names, intervals and fingerings. These are all things that you should look for when trying to find online guitar lessons. Some places will even teach you some useful practice lessons as well as warm-ups.


More often than not, when you are searching for free guitar lessons online, you will come across a lot of lessons that will just give you tablature of your favorite songs. That sounds nice and all but a lot of the time these tablatures are transcribed by guitar players who don't have much more experience than you yourself do. Kind of like the blind leading the blind huh?

For this reason, it is best to make sure that these free and easy to learn guitar lessons you find have some at least a few of the aspects that I listed for you earlier. This will ensure that you actually have a chance of learning the guitar and not a badly transcribed song. Once you learn the fingerings of the chords and scales, as well as learn a good practice routine including a warm up exercise or two, you will ensure that you are practicing the good habits of playing the guitar.

With all of the bogus advice you find online it can be very difficult to decipher which is which. But once you do, no amount of book reading can take place of actually playing the guitar. You need to take the time to actually sit down and put what you've learned into play.


So remember, when you go looking online for your guitar lessons, try to make sure that you find ones that teach you the best way to learn to play the guitar.

Bryan Haizel has over 37 years of guitar playing experience. He gives private guitar lessons to both children and adults, plus has developed a guitar training site where he offers free basic guitar lessons online. To learn how to play guitar, visit: www.guitar-training.info