Guitar Lesson Blog

Our guitar lessons have been created with the busy guitar player in mind. It is suggested that new guitarists begin his study, spending at least 5 days learning the exercises and songs in every 22 minutes lesson before moving on. Learning to relax while playing guitar will help, so please be sure to have fun with guitar5day !

You always dreamed to play guitar, but never getting started? Here is the best reason to begin… a 22 minutes / day guitar lesson. You’ll learn how to hold your guitar and pick, the parts of the guitar, what is a scale, learn a few chords, and a few songs.

Enjoy our lesson on DVD! Music and learning guitar is complicated enough and our approach to teaching music is friendly and simple. This is mainly because I have been able, over many years, to form my own view of how music works. I hope my approach helps you to better understand how to play guitar and to more fully enjoy the music.

Here is the Song from Buddy Holly.

Everyday.

Here is some video footage of a concert

 Golden gate Park in San Francisco at the Band shell.

Guess What Year this was.

A new site will be launching Around Jan 1, 2009

http://www.guitarsuccessu.com

More info will be forthcoming. .. stay tuned.

I found a new blog I wanted to share with you.

My-Guitar-Space

there are lots of posts and comments with answers to vital and common guitar questions 

I have added links to Printable guitar chords of the 5 Major Chords ins In  All 5 CAGED Forms.

You will see that each chord can be played 5 different ways. You will also see the redundancy of each form as you apply each chord form chart.

Good luck and Pass this along to your friend 

I will be putting up a new page of Printable guitar chords. I will be adding more and more chords over the next days and weeks.

Here is a response to a question about the Project X guitar course and the demonstration by Keith of the 7 diatonic chords.

Also a new page: how to play guitar  has been added to the website.
Each scale has 7 notes
Do re mi Fa So la ti
1  2  3  4  5  6  7

A chord is made up of every other note.

1  3   5
2  4   6
3  5   7

etc.

So Each Major scale creates a
set of 7 chords.

So you can play the scale in Chords.

The C scale creates these chords:

C Major
d minor
e minor
F Major
G Major
a minor
b minor (Flat 5)

In Project X Keith refers to these as
the 7 diatonic chords.
because the Major scale is also known
as the diatonic scale system.

In theory the chords are:
Major   1  or I
minor   2  or ii
minor   3  or iii
Major   4  or IV
Major   5  or V
minor   6  or vi
minor (Flat 5) 7 or vii

The way in which a chord progression presents itself will reveal which Key the chords are  in.

I just wanted to share a few more lessons with you.

These can be found at our “sister site”  guitar-5-day.

The first lesson is on fingerpicking.

http://guitar-5-day.com/fingerpicking.html

The second lesson is on C Blues Scale. the lesson includes tablature:

http://guitar-5-day.com/bluesscale.html

Here is a comment I just received about my Amazing Guitar 2.0 DVD.
I was dubious at first but you
won me over and after going
through the Amazing Guitar 2.0
and The Ultimate Fretboard course
I found you had allot to offer me.

I had come across the memory techniques
you demonstrate for chords awhile
ago through another very good
guitar site and guru and
have used it allot but
it did not occur to me
I could use it for scales
or anything else you did on
the fretboard.  WOW!! 

I also enjoyed the stretching
exercises and the clear layout
of the cage system on the
Ultimate Fretboard VCD. 
 
I also found your courses an excellent
jump start for a beginner or a
different slant on doing things
for the intermediate player. 

Once you get the information you
offer under your fingers you
get a great foundation to start
playing guitar right out of the box
without getting bogged down in
complicated theory and you make it fun. 

Also the Amazing Guitar Course
is a great compliment to any
serious guitar course like
Dan Denly’s Amazing Guitar Secrets,($97)
Steve Krenz’s Learn and Master Guitar ($357)
or any decent guitar course out there.

Vance

We have just completed posted some new lessons on guitar5day.com

Here is a  List:

Warm up your fingers with this easy to follow exercise:

Lesson - 01 - Finger Exercise

Here is some basic Music Theory everyone should know:

 Lesson -02 - Intervals - 3rds

Now for some fun Free Backing Tracks to play along with:

Free Backing Tracks

Over the next couple of weeks we will be posting more lessons.