Guitar Lessons: Chords - Beginner to Advanced

We know that many of you have a guitar in your house, or maybe you got one (or are getting one) for the holidays. But after it’s unwrapped, the string have been strummed, the guitar us passed around, and you’ve strike some rock star poses, you’re going to be looking for the “what’s next?”

That “what’s next?” is guitar lessons.

Luckily, we have the perfect guitar lessons so you can start learning right now, and be up and playing legitimately in just a couple of lessons, and all without learning how to read music.


Our how to play guitar chords is an excellent choice for the beginner just getting started in their musical career, or the intermediate looking to expand on the fundamentals that they already have learned.

Total Guitar Chords Vol. 1 starts on the ground level, and talks you through the instrument, how to hold it and how to position your hands. These guitar lessons then show you where to place your fingers for your first chords and how to strum simple rhythms.

Boom! You’re starting to play music.

Then each continuing lesson builds from there, adding chords to your vocabulary, adding additional notes to the chords you know, and new strumming patterns. Before you know it, you’re becoming well versed in playing rhythm guitar.

Total Guitar Chords Vol. 2 is a series guitar lessons that focus on more complex extended chords as they are used in Jazz, Blues, Funk and Rock music today, as well as the more complex strumming patterns.

As with Vol. 1 these guitar lessons use our progressive method of learning, so you are constantly building upon the knowledge you have learned in previous guitar lessons. Instead of trying to grasp entire concepts, they are broken down into smaller digestible pieces that you learn with ease.

The low price of these guitar lessons is just a fraction of what you would pay for a single private guitar lesson. You get to learn to play guitar in the comfort of your own home, and set the pace that you want to learn. If you conquer a lesson and want to move on, you don’t need to wait a week for your next lesson. Or, if you’re not ready to move on, you don’t need to be embarrassed and/or cancel (and probably pay for) your next lesson: Our guitar lessons are always there waiting for you.

Remember: A guitar without lessons is near useless, but with our how to play guitar chords lessons, it will be a tool for making music, personal expression and perhaps, fulfilling dreams.

You Tube as Your Music Teacher?

Tips to think about when considering free music lessons on You Tube

YouTube is a great medium for creative video exchange. It’s fun and entertaining and often very informative and educational. But is it the right place to learn how to play an instrument? Well that’s your call. Here are some tips to think about that will help you make an ‘educated’ decision.

Although you can find thousands of free videos that ‘teach you’
how to play guitar or piano, drums or bass, it’s very questionable as to whether or not you should use them as your only method of musical instruction.

Why not?

The reason is that most of the videos featured on You Tube are produced by amateurs, so the video itself may have bad sound quality, bad image, and an unorganized structure. These negative features of amateur videos lend themselves to more of a negative impact on someone who is trying to use them to learn an instrument, than a positive one.

Another factor that you have to be careful of with these videos is whether or not the instructor in the video is actually a ‘qualified’ music instructor. You really need to take into consideration their background in teaching music. If you do find a particular instructor that you ‘feel’ is ‘qualified’, do a little investigational work; try to find out their credentials. If the video is using someone without the knowledge or correct techniques, that instructor could lead you to misunderstand concepts of music and you could also injure yourself by applying an incorrect technique that they may be using to teach you.

Online music lessons, music instruction videos, and music lessons on DVD, can be very affordable, convenient and useful. You as the consumer are ultimately the deciding factor in what is the best learning tool for you. Just keep this in mind: Being a good performer doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. Be careful; be educated.

For more information on online music lessons and music instruction videos on DVD, visit Easy Music Lessons.

Online Guitar Lessons vs. Private Guitar Lessons

Have you been considering online guitar lessons but are still unsure of whether or not you should give up on your private guitar instruction?

Well, why don’t we take a look at what you might get when it comes to both types of lessons?

Benefits to Using Online guitar Lessons

Let’s say you live on the side of a mountain, or in a small town, or you have some other type of geographic or logistical obstacle to hurdle in order to get to a guitar studio for private lessons. If this sounds like your situation, then online guitar lessons are definitely for you.

Or how about this: Say for instance you do have access to a few different guitar studios for private lessons, but you just haven’t clicked yet with any particular teacher because of their type of teaching techniques or playing styles.

Or maybe you have been taking private lessons but have become increasingly unhappy with the length of time that you are given for each instruction and how expensive those lessons can be.

Well then you sound like the perfect candidate for online lessons. With online guitar lessons, you can study at your own pace concentrating on exercises for as long as you like. You will never feel rushed and the cost of the online music lessons is the same as one half hour private lesson and the beauty of it is that you only have to pay that money one time!

Ok, being in the same room with your instructor does have its benefits. For example, they can give you tips and show you the correct way to hold your guitar or how to place your hands correctly. But did you know that you can get those same kind of experiences using online lessons.

How you ask?

Well online electric guitar lessons are all taped with state-of-the-art equipment and show various camera angles that give you the feeling that you are right there in the room with the instructors. Not only that, you are given clear cut instructions in correct positioning, like guitar strumming, and posture for the instrument so that you can optimize your playing experience. Online lessons can be so detailed, so that most if not all of your questions will be answered through the demonstrations made by the instructors during the lessons.

If you would like more information about online guitar lessons, hop off that fence and check out www.easymusiclessons.com.