Saturday, December 18, 2010

Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons

By David Lambert


These lessens are a free resource to the expert guitar player who wishes to just get a certain amount of the rust off their playing, all the way to the very novice guitar player who wants to start out practicing the fundamentals correctly. I was a music teacher for the guitar for over 15 years and have been playing acoustic guitar for over 40 years.

You will be able to obtain a great deal of lesson materials on this site. The two major acoustic guitar picking styles that will be covered are Flatpicking Guitar and Fingerstyle Guitar.

Lessons for Flatpick Acoustic Guitar:
Flatpicking is a style that is customary for the most part to Bluegrass guitar players. It is also known as plectrum picking. We will cover subjects like right and left hand placement, how to place the pick, how to play effectively and much more.

Also the left hand will be covered from how to grasp the neck, position the fingers, and actually play the notes. Starting with the basics is essential and mastering them may well be the most crucial thing you can possibly do. If you don't play with proper approach, your playing will suffer. The difference between a really impressive guitar players and the average player is mainly in the appropriate proficiency.

TAB or tablature is a subject that we will teach you in detail. As you may know Tablature was developed by musicians who did not know how to read standard notation in the staff. It is commonly referred to a TAB.

We will learn hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and bends very extensively. These are also known as ornamental notes. Even though a few of these techniques border in the intermediate to advanced levels of playing, you will quickly master them through practicing our lesson materials.

Lastly, we will be examining a few of the TAB breaks from such impressive flatpicking guitar masters such as Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Norman Blake and others. Use these secrets, and you will experience your practicing will proceed at an amazing pace.

Acoustic Guitar Lessons - Fingerstyle Guitar:
Fingerstyle guitar got it's start from ragtime music, whereby the guitarists tried to duplicate the ragtime piano of the period. Contemporary artist's such as Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Merle Travis took this style and enhanced it even more.

Although it is a very challenging style of guitar playing, it does give a great amount of gratification to the guitarist and the listener alike.

Having a good feel of the guitar with a flatpick is advised prior to jumping into fingerstyle guitar. This will help your transition. With flatpicking under your belt, you will be able to put certain strategies behind you such as left hand methods, ornamental domination, speed training, TAB reading and more. Not to mention that you ought to become very intimate with scales, positions and the guitar fretboard.

By starting out with basic techniques and exercises, you will gain self-confidence, which will propel you into more advanced lesson materials. We will concentrate on the right hand strategies, as that is the greatest departure from flatpicking style guitar.

Also left hand differences will be covered with regards to chord forms and more. Next comes the development of your own distinctive style of fingerstyle guitar. We will take actual song samples, pull them apart and examine why certain methods are used and you will develop a clearer understanding of this style.

Sample breaks will be studied through a number of of the most famous fingerstyle guitarists such as, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and more. We can gain from the understanding of these masters of fingerstyle guitar. You can start to build your own individual style through analyzing these breaks.

After all, if you can 'rip-off' a great lick exactly how it was performed through Jerry Reed, that is very outstanding indeed. Think how much more of an accomplishment it would be to re-arrange the break and brand it uniquely your own. you will learn how to manage that.




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