Ricky Sharples
Blog URL http://playaguitarforfree.com/
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags music, guitar, tuition, learn guitar, hobbies, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, free guitar lessons, learn to play guitar
A blog featuring free lessons, articles and video clips for people who want to learn guitar but may not want a lesson package. I hope to give people info and insights on music they did not know about.
Latest Blog Posts
- Music Theory For Guitar - Should I Bother? on Nov 19, 2009 in Music Notes music theory
If you already know how to play guitar but you play mostly by ear or with the help of tabs, you might be wondering if there is any advantage to learning music theory. Many guitarists who think about learning theory just want to be more complete, roun...
- Learn To Play Guitar Songs on Nov 18, 2009 in How To Practice guitar songs
There are two reasons you need to give some thought the songs you are going to learn to play on your guitar. When you are just beginning to learn how to play guitar you will need to learn songs that help you with your technique. Your repertoire of gu...
- Finger Picking Guitar - Assigning Fingers To Strings on Nov 16, 2009 in Guitar Techniques
There’s a question that comes up for guitar players learning finger style techniques. Do we assign each finger to a specific string permanently or assign fingers to strings as the piece of music you are learning calls for? The answer is that yo...
- How To Play Double-Stops On Guitar on Nov 12, 2009 in Free Lessons guitar double-stops
A double-stop is when you play two notes at the same time. Some people might say that’s a chord but a lot of guitar players only consider a chord to be more than two notes, so we call two notes a double-stop. The basic effect of playing double-...
- Guitar Practice Techniques - How To Save Time on Nov 9, 2009 in Guitar Practice Tips guitar practice
Let’s look at things we should all be doing in our guitar practice time. This is regardless of whether we play acoustic or electric, pick or fingerstyle, whatever. You need a space where you can practice at any time of day or night. Your space...
- Orianthi Panagaris - Guitar Heroine? on Nov 6, 2009 in Female Guitarists Orianthi Panagaris
I was reading a CNN article about Orianthi Panagaris which reminds us that: “live, you’re reminded that Ori herself is playing lead guitar, and that the searing guitar riffs aren’t courtesy of an anonymous studio musician who’...
- How To Find Free Guitar Lessons On Google And YouTube on Nov 4, 2009 in Free Lessons
If you want to learn how to play a guitar for free, you will find the internet is your biggest source of free guitar lessons. To make the best use of the net you will need to know how to search without wasting too much time. First, make a folder in y...
