This tutorial shows you how to use a standard electronic tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Guitar Tricks Reference Tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers. This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar for absolute beginners in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers.

One of the most challenging tasks for a new guitarist can be making chord changes smoothly and quickly, without creating a pause in the music. Often times, coming up with a specific strategy for getting from one chord to the next can make all the difference. This tutorial presents four powerful tools for improving the speed of your chord changes.

This tutorial was inspired by many questions from subscribers about bass notes. Most of my technique lessons (fingerpicking, blues, Celtic, Christmas, strumming) refer to the Bass Note as an essential part of the technique. This tutorial gives a thorough explanantion of what a bass note is, how to figure out which one to use for each chord, and why it's important to right hand techniques and a var...

For beginner to intermediate players, this guitar lesson shows how to help increase the flexibility, speed and dexterity of your left hand. Great lead excercise!! Start slow and work your way up.

For beginner players, this guitar lesson will teach you easy tuning tips without using the tuning pegs. You'll also learn right hand rhythm techniques.

Guitar Fundamentals 1 & 2 will take you from the bare beginning - how do I hold the guitar? - all the way through to playing simple melodies, learning how to play all the most common major and minor chords, reading music, and ending with tutorials on how to play barre chords, the "power chords" behind most rock music. This section will show you four tutorials taken from Guitar Fundamentals 1 & ...

Let's start with the pick! The pick is more formally known as the plectrum. It is a small object held by a guitarist and used to strike the strings in order to create sound. Picks come in many shapes, sizes and are made in a variety of materials. The vast majority are triangular, or tear-dropped in shape, about an inch long, a millimeter thick and are made of plastic. The pick is held b...

Holding the guitar properly is absolutely essential. It is very important to work towards making any and all motions you make while playing guitar as smooth, efficient as possible. In order to do this, we start by focusing on proper body mechanics. Start with good posture! Sit up straight and do not slouch. Next, from your shoulder, to elbow, to wrist, hand and fingers, keep your body light ...