Archive for March, 2010

Guitar Beginners are excited about learning the guitar but often get nervous about making wrong first-steps in the beginning. Here are answers to some questions that are asked repeatedly in my beginner guitar lessons. I hope this helps some of you out. 1) Should I buy an acoustic or an electric guitar? Buy whichever guitar ... View Lesson

Which do you play more, electric guitar or acoustic guitar? That was the question in our last reader poll here at GuitarTeacher.com. 453 readers took the time to respond. Thanks to all of you who responded! The results shown below: The poll shows slightly more of our readers play electric ... View Lesson

Exotic Guitar Scales are great for adding spice to your lead guitar playing. I wouldn't suggest learning any of the 12 scales shown in this lesson before learning the minor pentatonic scale, the natural minor or the major scale (see 4 Scales You Should Know) but they might be part of the sound and guitar style you are searching for. Each of these 5 ... View Lesson

This poll question would be one of the hardest for me, personally, to answer: If you had to focus on one Guitar Style, which would that be? Choosing a favorite guitar style is as difficult for me to pick as a favorite ice cream flavor. There are good licks (ha-ha!) and great players to be found in each and every one of them! I guess since I ... View Lesson

In the following Dorian Mode Jam Track we use G major chords over a repeating A bass note. This keeps reinforcing that 'A' is the root note for our soloing. View Lesson