Beginner Guitar Lessons

The main types of guitars are: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, and bass guitar. In addition, there are further varieties of each of these main types of guitar; for example, there are several different types of electric guitar, including “solid-body” and “semi-hollow” electric guitars.

On this page we take a look at the major types of guitars and the difference between these instruments from a beginner’s perspective.

We also compare how suitable each type of guitar is for various styles of music and playing styles…

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On this page you’ll find a selection of useful guitar scale patterns, plus information on what guitar scale patterns are and how to use them.

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Guitar strings notes chart, tab and notation: everything you need to learn the notes of the guitar fretboard.

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In the eighth and final part of Guitar Command’s ‘Learn Guitar In Two Months‘ series of lessons, we look at two techniques that you can use to create your own easy guitar riffs.

Power chords and arpeggios are both widely-used techniques that can be used to create guitar parts for songs.

In this lesson we’ve provide a basic introduction to each technique. This will allow you to experiment with power chords and arpeggios in your own music.

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This lesson will show you how to play easy guitar solos. So far we’ve covered the basics of guitar playing, including simple chords and single note melody lines.

We’ve also covered reading guitar TABs and have briefly touched on learning to read music.

Playing guitar solos requires a new skill: improvisation.

When you’re improvising a guitar solo you’re not playing music that’s been written out by someone else. It may sound easy, but (unless you’re playing avant-garde free jazz) there are still rules to follow.

When playing a guitar solo, you have to let your ears and musical knowledge guide you to the right notes.

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Lesson four of Guitar Command’s Learn To Play Guitar In Two Months series of articles shows you how to read tabs.

Tab is an alternative to music notation. It shows how music should be played on fretted instruments.

Tab is easier to learn than standard musical notation, and is widely used among guitarists. So, if you’ve been following the series and you’re confident playing chords, now is the time to start reading guitar tabs!

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