Whats a good way to learn the guitar if you dont have the money for lessons?

6 responses so far ↓

• 1 Nicole // Nov 9, 2008

  teach yourself, my boyfriend did that and he’s brilliant now
  buy guitar books and stuff.

• 2 angie h // Nov 9, 2008

  There are tons of Internet sites with free online lessons: google “online guitar lessons” and that brings up lots of possibilities.

  Start playing now, a little bit every day, to build up your callouses…good luck.

• 3 emo_is_not_bad333 // Nov 9, 2008

  Well, I wanna learn the guitar too.
  So I searched up “online guitar lessons” as someone posted. And found this site :http://www.guitartricks.com. It’s free and it’s 24 free lessons. I’m gonna try it and you should it seems cool. I haven’t started it yet but I signed up.

• 4 ME! // Nov 9, 2008

  ultimate-guitar.com

  put the name of the song you want in the search bar

  pick a tab with 4-5 stars

  should look like this
  ——————-5——
  ————-3————

  or something like that

  well each line is a string and each number refers to the fret to play it on

  there’s a lot more to playing than just learning songs though so learn chords and theory

• 5 vp_nyc // Nov 9, 2008

  EASY!!! im self-taught.

  1. Learn scales.

  Every meoldy you have ever heard is based on some kind of a scale. A scale is a certain succession of notes within an octave. An octave is a set of every pitch. These are notes in an A octave.

  A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A
  (The last A is in the next octave)

  2. Learn chords.

  Chords are based on scales so you should learn them after you learn some scales. Learn all the major/minor/7th chords and you will know enough chords to accompany almost any song.

  A, B, C, D, E, F, G
  These are the most cimmonly used chords.

  3. Learn some songs!

  A very good and fun way to practice your technique is by playing your favorite songs. Pick a song that is not too difficult, look up a gutiar tab for it on sites liek ultimate-gutiar.com, and play your favorite song.

  Tabs are easy to read, except for the timing. If you know the song well, then you only need the notes of it.

  There are six lines in a tab, and each line represents a string. The top line is the skinniest string, and the bottom line is the heaviest string. The numbers on the lines are the numbers of the frets you are supposed to hold down.

  4. Get to the point of understanding.

  Once you know enoug habotu guitar, you will develop knowledge about how thigns work adn why thigns sound good, and then you will have a very CLEAR understanding of the guitar. im completely self-taught and i remembre when i didnt know what i was doing atall. im surprised i got to the point i am at today.

  As for places to get technique tips and musical theory tips, just surf the web until you find what you are lookign for, there are thousands of websites with useful information. Ultimate-guitar.com not onyl has tabs, it has a lesson column/forum, and alot of user-written blogs about various aspects of the guitar. I hope this helps you.

• 6 Nicholas S // Nov 9, 2008

  learn to read tablature, learn on the internet, free guitar tabs and youtube lessons, ’s what i did, and im best in my grade