How to play guitar

Learn how to play guitar online with my absolutely free guitar lessons, apps, practice timer, images, graphics and virtual tools! Whether you are an experienced guitarist, guitar teacher or a beginner, I have tons of free guitar resources to share with you.

My resources include some of the largest selection of free guitar chord books on the web as well as the most customizable guitar scale chart generators, a practice timer and metronome. My lessons inlcude animated GIFs, guitar TABs and apps to help you or your students learn the music theory needed to play guitar like a pro.



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Guitar Tricks



Tons of interesting guitar tricks you can use to squeeze cool sounds from your guitar.

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Bass Guitar Tab Paper



Printable Bass Guitar TAB paper. Free to save, edit or print. Print as many blank sheets as you like.

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Harmonic Major Scales



Learn the Harmonic Major scale for guitar and create custom neck charts.

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Prometheus Scale



Learn the Prometheus scale in all keys with this fretboard scale generator.

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Metronome Online



A free online Metronome you can use to practice your timing.

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Japanese Taishikicho Scale



The Japanese Taishikicho scale is interesting to learn and play. Use this app to create diagrams for it in many different guitar tunings.

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Barre Chords For Guitar



This lesson shows all the common barre chords shapes with some tips on how to play them. I also show some shapes that you might not be familiar with.

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