Teaching You How to Play the Guitar
From: Andrew Hand Hi there, So you're ready to learn how to play guitar right?! I'd like to offer you a free video lesson to help you out on your journey. I've made a bunch of FREE lessons that I think can also be of use to you. As you learn how to play guitar it's often good to look at … Continue Reading
In this lesson, we're going to learn "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles (That's the YouTube link incase you want to watch it there). This is a super easy song to play and not only that, but it's got great melody. I don't actually think I know a Beatles' song that doesn't have great melody, but … Continue Reading
In this lesson, we're going to look at Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" (that's the YouTube link if you want to view there). It's a great song and also a pretty easy one to learn. The neat thing about Ring of Fire is that it only uses three chords, and those chords happen to be the most popular … Continue Reading
This Video Lesson is on How to Play "Come Together" by the Beatles for Guitar Come Together by the Beatles is a great tune that I hope you'll like. I used the arrangement out of a Beatles songbook and it is a pretty straight forward, easy to learn way to play the tune. Watch the video below, … Continue Reading
Often when it comes to learning guitar, there comes a point where we get stuck between being able to play and know chord shapes and actually understanding what they're made up of, enter guitar triads. Guitar triads are the 3 (that's the 'tri' of triad) notes that make up a chord. These common … Continue Reading
Lower the 3rd 6th and 7th degrees of any Maj Scale and you create the natural minor scale. This is known as thew relative minor to whatever Major Scale you've formed. Let's take a look at the example of G Major. Spelling out G Major yields, G-A-B-C-D-E-F#, and if we lower the 3rd, 6th and 7th, … Continue Reading
Understanding Keys in music is often a source of great confusion and frustration for those who have just begun to learn the language of music. Although our site is about learning guitar, the language of music is the same for all instruments. All of us are given the same 12 notes to work with … Continue Reading
Guitar Triads: What They Mean and How to Form Them If you want to understand guitar triads, then you must understand the music theory behind them. To get to triads, we have to start with scales, and to start with scales we have to look at our master canvas. That canvas is the Chromatic Scale. … Continue Reading
I recently was thinking, 'How was it that I was able to learn to play guitar?' The way that I started was by learning the open, or first position chords, as they're sometimes called. We call them first position chords, because you play them on the first fret and they involve the use of open … Continue Reading
Disclosure: We are compensated for purchase of these courses. Click here for details. You Don't Just Want to LEARN to Play Guitar, You Want to Master It, Right? You've probably come to this site because you want to learn to play guitar or improve on your existing foundations. You're finding … Continue Reading
Minor Pentatonic Scale for Guitar (Click to watch on YouTube if Video Doesn't Load) In learning the minor pentatonic scale for guitar, it is important to remember a few things. The minor pentatonic scale only has five notes, versus the 7 notes of the diatonic scales (Maj, min and all Modes … Continue Reading
Andrew Hand is a Recording Artist, Music Producer and guitarist, passionate about teaching others how to unlock their musical voices. Hand's understanding of performance and songwriting help bring the most out of his students.