Any knows any good online lessons for learning guitar?

[rozer]

After sitting around and wishing I knew how to play the guitar, I've finally decided to just go ahead and learn. I’m not new to music by any means, I've been playing violin and piano since I was 5 years old (I'm now 24) and have been in some light touch with the guitar.
My biggest problem now is where to start. I also understand that there are two different types of acoustic guitars: steel-string and classical. I'd actually like to learn a bit of both...to be able to play some classical guitar (John Williams blows me away) along with some more light-hearted Jack Johnson-type stuff. I plan on taking some online lessons to help get me started and want to have a source that can match all the needs I want like learning all the chords,. I just don’t it to be over soon, but practice with daily lessons.
Suggest me something that I can look upon …… Sorry for the long post and thanks for your help!

 

[Audigy]

After sitting around and wishing I knew how to play the guitar, I've finally decided to just go ahead and learn. I’m not new to music by any means, I've been playing violin and piano since I was 5 years old (I'm now 24) and have been in some light touch with the guitar.
My biggest problem now is where to start. I also understand that there are two different types of acoustic guitars: steel-string and classical. I'd actually like to learn a bit of both...to be able to play some classical guitar (John Williams blows me away) along with some more light-hearted Jack Johnson-type stuff. I plan on taking some online lessons to help get me started and want to have a source that can match all the needs I want like learning all the chords,. I just don’t it to be over soon, but practice with daily lessons.
Suggest me something that I can look upon …… Sorry for the long post and thanks for your help!

Steel String and Classical are not different styles of playing guitar they are just different guitars in term of physical properties. Get any guitar you want, Acoustic or Electric and you can play any style on it, albeit some styles will sound better on Acoustic/Electric. I'm a self taught guitarist and I discovered that Youtube has a wealth of informative videos and exercises. Other than that this is my favorite site to find some new practice routines etc.

www.justinguitar.com

Enjoy

 

[jliedeka]

There are some good videos on Gibson's web site. That stuff is mainly geared toward electric guitars but there are a lot of styles covered.

For nylon string, I would highly recommend the book Pumping Nylon. I learned some stuff about proper technique.

You can also learn a lot by seeking out sheet music or tabs and learning songs. There's a lot of tab on the net but the quality varies. I usually prefer to learn a song by listening to it on CD.

Jim

 

[jostenmeat]

Steel String and Classical are not different styles of playing guitar they are just different guitars in term of physical properties. Get any guitar you want, Acoustic or Electric and you can play any style on it, albeit some styles will sound better on Acoustic/Electric...

I disagree. I think I know of only one example of someone who played classical on a steel string, and that was probably Agustin Barrios. I also disagree the styles are not different. They are EXTREMELY different.

For nylon string, I would highly recommend the book Pumping Nylon. I learned some stuff about proper technique.

I studied for two years with the guy who wrote that. Its a good book, the most popular technique book ever for the style, but I didn't agree with 100% of it. However, even he understood the individual differences of any given person's physiology.

When I used to be an avid musician, I used a dilution of Carlevaro exercises, particularly the right hand stuff. Sort of something I came up with between the advice of a couple of other world-class musicians. I completely leave out l.h., and worked on the r.h. for warm-ups, as its the r.h. that is unbelievably difficult. The Carlevaro books are very pricey, and perhaps not easy to find.

Gosh, classical is so much more exigent than pop/rock. Anyways, for the first style, another (and very difficult) method to technically fool-proof a work is to apply severley dotted rhythms to any given work. Then use the reverse dotted rhythms. Very difficult, and will really tighten it up.

For contrapuntal music, and this is even more difficult, learn to play any given set of voices, and sing the remaining. VERY DIFFICULT. While it helps solo stuff, I think this is even more beneficial for chamber works.

-jostenmeat

 

[larry7995]

I got Joe Pass The Blue Side of Jazz in the mail from Netflix the other day, that is cool, feels like Joe Pass is in the room showing me some stuff!

 

[BostonMark]

guitar pro 5

One program that has helped me a lot is Guitar Pro 5. If you have a computer and can read tab, it plays the music along with the tab, so you can follow along. you can slow it down and replay sections until you get them. any tab song in the guitar pro format can be learned, and their are thousands of songs. Many are good, of course some are bad, but you can listen first, to see if the tab actually sounds like the song you want to learn.

If you want to learn more, I reviewed it

Guitar Pro 5

I'm an amateur guitar player, started taking lessons again at age 42, its fun!

 

[Sheep]

I'm presently learning Hot For Teach, by Van Halen. By Far the hardest thing I've ever tried to play on a guitar.

SheepStar

 

[MinusTheBear]

I'm presently learning Hot For Teach, by Van Halen. By Far the hardest thing I've ever tried to play on a guitar.

SheepStar

If you like finger tapping check out Minus The Bear, their guitarist taps entire songs....he is an awesome guitarist...good stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Knudson

 

[MinusTheBear]

Here is a couple of samples of an accurate guitar tab of Minus The Bear

Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warhouse

Dave
Intro
|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|
|------------12p-0-|------------12p-0-|
|------12p-0-------|------12p-0-------|
|------------------|------------------|
|-0h-5-------------|-0h-5-------------|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------12p-0-|-----------12p-0-|-----------12p-0-|
|-----12p-0-------|-----12p-0-------|-----12p-0-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0h-5------------|-0h-5------------|-0h-9------------|

|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|------------12p-0-|-----------12p-0-|-----------12p-0--|
|------12p-0-------|-----12p-0-------|-----12p-0--------|
|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-0h-10------------|-0h-2------------|-0h-2-------------|

|------------------|-----------------|
|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------12p--0-|-----------12p-0-| Repeat.
|-----12p-0--------|-----12p-0-------|
|------------------|-----------------|
|-0h-2-------------|-0h-2------------|

End on

|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|-0h-2---------------|

Dave
Verse
*= Left hand
|----------------|-----------------|
|----------------|-----------------|
|------*5--12--0-|-------*5--12--0-|
|--12------------|---12------------|
|----------------|-----------------|
|-5------------0-|-5-------------0-|

|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|------*10-12--0-|
|------*5--12--0-|------*5--12--0-|--12------------|
|--12------------|--12------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|-5------------0-|-5------------0-|-9------------0-|

|-------*10--12--0-|---------------|----------------|
|---12-------------|---------------|----------------|
|------------------|---7-----------|---7------------|
|------------------|------*5--7--0-|-------*5--7--0-|
|------------------|---------------|----------------|
|-10-------------0-|-2-------------|-2--------------|

Tap Tap
|---------------|-----------------|
|---------------|-7--0--3---------|
|---7-----------|---------7--4--0-|
|------*5--7--0-|-----------------|
|---------------|-----------------|
|-2-------------|-----------------|

Dave
Chorus

|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|--10--10--12--12---9---9--10-10-----|
|--10--10------------------10-10-----|
|--10--10------------------10-10-----|

|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|---7---7--9----9---7---7---7--7-----|
|---7---7-------------------7--7-----|
|---7---7-------------------7--7-----|

|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|---5---5--7----7---5---5---5--5-----|
|---5---5-------------------5--5-----|
|---5---5-------------------5--5-----|

|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|---2---2--5----5--5--5--7----7------|
|---2---2----------5--5--------------|
|---2---2----------5--5--------------|

Then

|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|--4-------------------7p--0--|
|--4----5S--9S--5p--0---------| x2
|--2--------------------------|
|--2--------------------------|

Then.. slowed Bridge 1

|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|------12-9------9-7----|
|-10---------7----------|
|-10---------7----------|

Back to Verse. Chorus, etc.

Bridge 2

|----------------------|
|---8---7--------------|
|----------7--9--0-----| repeat
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|

Outro

|--3-----------------|
|--5-----------------|
|--4-----------------|
|--2-----------------|x4
|--2-----------------|
|--2-----------------|



We Are Not the Football Team

Intro/Verse (no where near 100%)
Numbers in brackets are harmonics (lightly touch string and pluck)
|-------------------------------|
|-7-p5----------15/12-----------|
|---------(7)---------(12)------|
|---------(7)-------------(12)--| a few times.
|-5---h7--------12/10-----------|
|-------------------------------|

End with
|-------------------------------|
|-7-p5-----------5--------------|
|---------(7)--7---7------------|
|---------(7)------7------------|
|-5---h7------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

Chorus
|----------------------------------|
|-7/8--15/12--12/19--19/15--15-15--|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-5/7--12/10--10/17--17/12--12-12--|
|----------------------------------|


Credit given to Rob for the making of these tablatures

 

[mudrummer99]

Check out www.expertvillage.com as well. Most of the people on there are pretty well credentialed unlike youtube which can be pretty hit or miss. Hope this helps

Mike

 

[Sheep]

Have you seen the Hot for Teacher Tab?

E ---------------------------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------------------------|
G ---------------------------------------------------------|
D ---------------------------------------------------------|
A -X\--0^3^7-12^7^3^0^3^7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-|
E ---------------------------------------------------------|

+ + + +
E ---------------------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------------------|
G ---------------------------------------------------|
D ---------------------------------------------------|
A -0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9-|
E ---------------------------------------------------|

+ + + + +
E --------------------------------------------------------|
B --------------------------------------------------------|
G --------------------------------------------------------|
D -12-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-|
A --------------------------------------------------------|
E --------------------------------------------------------|

+ + +
E ---------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------|
G ---------------------------------------|
D -0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9~-|
A ---------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------|
+ + + + + + +
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G -12-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-5-9-12-9-5-0-5-9-12-9-5-0-3-7-12-7-3-0-3-7-12-|
D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+
E -----------------|
B -----------------|
G -7-3-0-5-9-12-9~-|
D -----------------|
A -----------------|
E -----------------|

+ + + + +
E -12-5-8-12-8-7-5---------------------------------------------------------|
B -----------------8-12-8-7-5----------------------------------------------|
G ----------------------------8-12-8-7-5---------------------2-------------|
D ---------------------------------------8-12-8-7-5----------2-------------|
A ---------------------------------------------------8-7-5-0-0-------------|
E -------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E -------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B -------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G ----------------5--4-------1--2--1-/2--1/2-------------------------------|
D ----------------5--4-------1--2--1-/2--1/2-------------------------------|
A -------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E -2-2--2-2--2-2-----------2-------------------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2/-|

E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G -10\--7--4---1--2--1/2----------------------------5--4-4-------1--2--1-/2--|
D -10\--7--4---1--2--1/2----------------------------5--4-4-------1--2--1-/2--|
A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E -------------------------2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-----------2--------------|

E ---------------|
B ---------------|
G -4--4---4----5-|
D -4--4---4----2-|
A -4--4---4----0-|
E -0--0---0------|


Main riff (clean):

E -----------------------------------------------------|
B -----------------------------------------------------|
G -5---5^2---2---5---5^2-2---5^2-----------5--8\7---2--|
D -2---2-----2---2---2---2---2-------------5--8\7---2--|
A ---------------------------------0^5^6^7-------------|
E -----------------------------------------------------|
(repeat clean riff x 3)
"Oh wow man... wait a second, man - whaddaya think the teacher's gonna
look like this year ?"
"My butt, man !"

E ---------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------|
G -5---5^2---2---5---5^2-2---5---5^2---0-|
D -2---2-----2---2---2---2---2---2-----0-|
A ---------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------|
"Ohhhh !"


Main riff (distorted):

E ------------------------------------------------|
B ------------------------------------------------|
G -2----------2----------2-----------------5--8\7-|
D -2----------2----------2-----------------5--8\7-|
A -0---3-3-0--0---3-3-0--0---3-0---0^5^6^7--------|
E ------------------------------------------------|

Verse 1:

(with distorted riff)
T-t-teacher stop that screamin', teacher don't you see ?
Don't wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but I'm doing well.

E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B --------------------------------------------8--7--5---------------------------|
G -2----------2----------2-----------------5--8--7--5--7------------------------|
D -2----------2----------2-----------------5--8--7--5--7------------------------|
A -0---3-3-0--0---3-3-0--0---------0-5^6^7--------------------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Teacher needs to see me after school. I think of the


E -------------------------------------------------------------------------10-|
B ----------------------------------------------------------12--10----12-x-10-|
G -------------------------13--12--10--12-------------------12--10----12-x-10-|
D -------------------------13--12--10--12-------------------12--10----12-x----|
A ---X\-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

education that I missed. But then my homework was never


E ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B -12-x-12\-----------------------10------9-------8---7---6---5---4---5-|
G -12-x-12\---------------10------9-------8-------7---6---5---4---3---4-|
D -12-x-12\-----------8---8---7---7---6---6---5---5---4---3---2---1---2-|
A ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------|


Yeah.... gunna be a while before I get the intro and solo down.

SheepStar

 

[MinusTheBear]

I am a big fan of Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen is really one of a handful of bands I can stand from the 80's. That song is going to be challanging. This song would be fun to play as well.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/steve_vai/tender_surrender_tab.htm

I would have to post 4 times to fit the tab on here...too many characters.

 

[jostenmeat]

for those of you who like to learn by ear, but simply cannot with the insane speed of some guitarists listed, there are devices out there that will slow down playback without altering pitch. I had a friend who learned a lot of solos using such a device, but I have no idea what its called. Sometime to check out if interested.

 

[jliedeka]

You can also do that on a computer. I only know linux stuff but you can slow down playback with Mplayer. I tried messing around with Sox to do the same thing several years ago. I would bet there are programs for Windows and Mac that can do it.

Jim

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Have you seen the Hot for Teacher Tab?

Yeah.... gunna be a while before I get the intro and solo down.

SheepStar

You'll probably have it before anyone you know can handle the drums all the way thru...

SBF1

 

[moreira85]

I am self taught as well. get a guitar and learn the major chords. once you learn the major chords and practice practice practice you will be able to play a ton of songs. you tube/ 911tabs.com are great sites.

start with the major chords and once you learn the finger placement for each chord you need to get rythym down by listening to the song you want play.