{"id":60,"date":"2017-05-22T03:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T03:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommymerry.com\/guitarlessons\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2023-07-20T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:14:53","slug":"beginner-guitar-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tommymerry.com\/guitar\/beginner-guitar-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Guitar Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to your Free Beginner Guitar Lessons<\/strong><br \/>\nStudy Lessons 1, part 1-3 carefully. All other lessons depend on it! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"your-first-guitar-lessons-part1\/\">First lessons pt1 &#8211; Learning your string names and frets numbers.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"first-guitar-lessons-part2\/\">First lessons pt2 &#8211; Learning Chromatic scale, Half Steps and Whole Steps.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"first-guitar-lesson-part-3\/\">First lessons pt3 &#8211; Learning sharps, flats and understanding the guitar neck.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"how-to-hold-guitar-pick\/\">How to Hold a Guitar Pick Like a Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"lesson-lefties-advantages-playing-guitar-left-handed\/\">A lesson for \u201cLefties\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"learn-guitar-chords-easy-and-fast\/\">Learn Guitar Chords Easy and Fast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"basic-guitar-chords-finger-placement-tips\/\">Basic Guitar Chords and Finger Placement Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"learn-tablature-in-5-min-and-play-over-5-million-songs-by-tonight\/\">Learn Tablature in 5 min and play over 5 million songs by tonight!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"the-ultimate-guide-to-reading-and-writing-advanced-tablature-tab\/\">The *Ultimate* guide to reading and writing advanced Tablature (TAB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"learning-barre-chords\/\">Learning Barre Chords &#8211; You are now free to move about the cabin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"strumming-patterns-for-guitar\/\">Strumming patterns for guitar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"learning-the-blues-scale\/\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Master the Blues Scale \u2013 Imagine the possibilities this will unlock!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"how-to-hammer-on-pull-off\/\">How to Hammer-on, Pull-off and Trill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"two-note-power-chords\/\">Two-note Power Chords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"alternate-picking\/\">How to quickly improve on guitar &#8211; Alternate picking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"fake-major-scale-mastering-melodic\/\">Fake Major Scale \u2013 mastering the melodic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"pose-like-rock-star-onstage\/\">How to pose like a Rock Star on-stage &#8211; One Word of advice..<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coming soon&#8230; A Guide to buying your first guitar &amp; Which guitar is better for beginners \u2013 Acoustic or Electric?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Below is a list of more Beginner Guitar Lessons in-development.<br \/>\nMake sure to connect with me to be notified when new lessons are completed. (see right hand side of page to connect)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning Rock AND Blues Chord Progressions &#8211; the pathway to guitar solos<\/li>\n<li>A Quick trick to memorize every note on your guitar neck in 5 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Getting to know your guitar and all its parts<\/li>\n<li>Shopping for a new guitar, or upgrading your old one<\/li>\n<li>Strumming patterns<\/li>\n<li>Basic Scales<\/li>\n<li>Warming up\/Chromatic\/Major Scales<\/li>\n<li>Finding the root note of a song<\/li>\n<li>Major and Minor ear-training<\/li>\n<li>Vibrato vs Tremolo<\/li>\n<li>Bends: up, down, all around<\/li>\n<li>Memorization tricks<\/li>\n<li>Palm and finger muting aka killing the noise<\/li>\n<li>Changing guitar stings like a pro<\/li>\n<li>3 Tuning Techniques<\/li>\n<li>Beginning Ear-training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Connect with me on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Free-Guitar-Lessons-with-Tommy-Merry-287447938327458\/\">Facebook Guitar Lessons<\/a> site for weekly updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Welcome to your Free Beginner Guitar Lessons Study Lessons 1, part 1-3 carefully. All other lessons depend on it! \ud83d\ude09 First lessons pt1 &#8211; Learning your string names and frets numbers. First lessons pt2 &#8211; Learning Chromatic scale, Half Steps and Whole Steps. First lessons pt3 &#8211; Learning sharps, flats and understanding the guitar neck. 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