Beginner Guitar Lessons
Beginner Guitar Lessons
Palm Mute - Chunky and Heavy
Written by Edward Cupler
Palm Mute can do more than just give your guitar a heavier chunky or percussive sound. It can also help you reduce some unwanted sounds you may experience while soloing or just playing through heavy distortion at a loud volume. When properly executed a good palm muting technique will allow you to achieve a more chunky or percussive sound on those lower string and also help to deaden them when you're soloing on the higher strings giving your playing a cleaner more professional sound.
Electric Guitar Diagram
Written by Edward Cupler
This electric guitar diagram is intended as a reference for beginners. If you have just acquired your first electric guitar, this is a great place to begin before proceeding through the other guitar lessons on this site.
Understanding Online Guitar Tablature
Written by Edward Cupler
I have been playing the guitar and learning guitar for over 20 years and I've seen quite a few changes in the educational materials available to students. Guitar tablature is probably has been the most effective tools in learning guitar that I've seen. Before tablature, any songbook you could buy only contained the written sheet music, which was more difficult to understand for beginners. Often times you would buy the songbook for your favorite band, get it home and start trying to learn your favorite song. As you struggled through the written music and tried to make the chords as they were written you kept thinking, this doesn't sound like the song I wanted to learn. After many hours of frustration you give up altogether. The problem was that the sheet music you bought was usually for piano and if chord charts were included, they were open position chords more suited to folk guitar than rock & roll guitar.
Fretting Guitar Notes
Written by Edward Cupler
A simple example of the proper way to fret a note on the guitar. This technique will discourage buzzing or dead notes. This technique should always be observed when practicing guitar so that it becomes second nature.
Learning Guitar Tablature
Written by Edward Cupler
Guitar tablature provides an easy to understand way of knowing where to put your fingers on the fret board. Unlike musical notation tablature does not provide timing, you must already to know the song's timing to learn it properly.
How to Hold a Guitar Pick
Written by Edward Cupler
This video example shows one common way of holding a guitar pick between the thumb and index finger. You don't have to hold your pick exactly like I do. This is just a good place to start from. Everyone's hands are different so feel free to modify this so that you're comfortable.
Now Available Speed Lives 3 by Michael Angelo
Speed Lives 3, The Neoclassical Zone
Michael Angelo Batio teaches "The Finish Line"
