Guitar Command

Music Career Advice

In this guest post, musician and teacher David Morgan shares some music career advice, and asks if a career in music will make you as happy as you think it will…

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.

Lesson five in Guitar Command’s ‘Learn To Play Guitar In Two Months‘ series of lessons teaches you how to read music for guitar. It contains everything you need to know to start reading music, and covers the basics of music notation.

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!

Part three of Guitar Command’s ‘Learn Guitar In Two Months‘ series covers strumming patterns for guitar.

In the previous lesson, Simple Guitar Chords, we found out how to play chords using a very basic strumming pattern. In this lesson we introduce three more chords, and bring them to life with some new strumming patterns.

At the end of the lesson, we’ve provided some sample chord progressions so you can practice what you have learned!

Guitar Scales Backing Tracks Chord Progressions

Chord progressions for Guitar Command’s ‘Guitar Scales’ backing tracks album.

Guitar Scales – Guitar Backing Tracks For Learning And Improvising With Scales

Simple Guitar Chords And How To Play Them

This lesson is part of the ‘Play Guitar In Two Months‘ series of articles, although it is also written to be a stand-alone lesson too. The aim of the lesson is to show you how to play simple guitar chords. If you read through the directions and work hard you should be able to achieve this quite easily. More information on playing chords is available here: How To Play Guitar Chords.

Learn to play guitar with our free guitar course! Whether you want to play acoustic or electric, folk or metal, in this eight-part series of free guitar lessons for beginners you’ll find hints, tips and advice to get you started.

You’ll soon be playing your first chords, melodies and songs!

The guitar is a great instrument to learn: you can learn the basics very quickly; it’s a relatively cheap instrument to buy; it’s quiet enough to practice without disturbing your neighbors; and it’s hugely versatile.

Learn To Play Guitar In Two Months: Free Guitar Lessons For Beginners

This page is the introduction to our series of free guitar lessons for beginners. If you start now and work hard then in two month’s time you’ll be able to play the chords and melodies of many of your favorite songs.

From there, you can build on your technique and take your playing in any direction you want!

Excited? So are we! Let’s get started …

Best Progressive Rock Bands

In this article we sample some of the most innovative popular music ever created to come up with a list of the best progressive rock bands of all time…

Best Guitar For Beginners

What is the best guitar for beginners? This article sets out to answer this often-asked question. We’ll help you to decide which guitar to buy, depending on: what style of music you wish to play, what you want out of your instrument, and how much you wish to spend.

At the end of the article we recommend some suitable guitars for beginners.