Guitar Lessons & Tips
Exclusive Clare Free Blues Guitar Lesson
Clare Free is one of the fastest rising stars on the UK Blues circuit and is an artist who is redefining the blues for the modern world. Her roots lie in the blues but her influences go way beyond the …
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Take a Sneek Peak at Our New ‘In the style of Joe Satriani’ Guitar Package
We are getting ready to launch our second installment of the ‘In the style of’ series of guitar lessons. Whilst we are busy adding the final touches you can check out a sneek preview of Mike performing this incredible solo. …
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Frepoint Launches First Product With In The Style of Andy Timmons HD Video Guitar Lesson
Fretpoint.com is proud to announce it’s first ever product! As the first installment of a 5 part “In the style of…” series that Fretpoint will be producing over the next few months, this downloadable video guitar lesson is now available …
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Classic Riff: Fly By Night by Rush
Welcome to a new series of posts featuring classic guitar riffs. This first classic riff is ‘Fly by Night’ by Rush, the title track to their 1975 album. This classic Alex Lifeson riff is fairly easy to play and if your starting to master guitar chords then it’s a great song to help you move on to basic guitar riffs.
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Steve Vai Guitar Techniques from Berkleemusic.com
Guitar legend and Berklee alum Steve Vai have announced an exclusive new 12-week online course entitled Steve Vai Guitar Techniques where guitarists will learn some of Steve’s amazing guitar secrets.
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Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar with Steve Krenz
Gibson have been very busy recently with the launch of some superb artist endorsed guitars (check out the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul and Angus Young SG) a more lesson focused website and a superb iPhone app. As if that wasn’t enough they have now teamed up with Legacy Learning Systems to create a high quality guitar instruction DVD course
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3 Ways To Learn Guitar Without Taking Guitar Lessons
Whilst learning to play guitar traditionally used to be a case of largely learning songs by ear or by getting lessons with your local guitar instructor there are now an incredibly array of high quality guitar courses available to aspiring guitarists. Check out Fretpoint’s favourite guitar courses.
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How to sound like Angus Young with Guitar Rig
Adrian runs through how you can get that early AC/DC tone via the popular guitar software package GuitarRig. In my opinion he pretty much nails the rythm and lead tone…
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Echo Song Guitar Lesson Using Delay By Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert is a great guitar instructor as well as an amazing guitarist and in this guitar lesson he teaches you how to play the echo song from the album ‘Get Out Of My Yard’
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Free Online Guitar Tuners
There are plenty of free online guitar tuners available which means the days of having to buy one for the practice room are long gone. This is our guide to the best the web has to offer and includes acoustic and electric guitar tuners.
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Fingerpicking Lessons – Five Free Video Guitar Lessons
Fingerpicking is a guitar technique used by guitarists in many styles of music, from classical all the way through to rock. Technique is everything with this particular guitar style and once you learn the correct finger picking technique you’re playing will radically improve along with your repertoire of songs.
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Learn To Play AC/DC’s Rock n Roll Train
Rock n’ Roll Train by AC/DC is one of the band best efforts and is from the equally superb Black Ice album. Learn to play this classic AC/DC track with our video lessons and tablature.
Neoclassical Shred Guitar Masterclass
Neoclassical guitar is the new age classical. It involves coordination, fast hands, and some amazing scales and riffs. If you are looking to be inspired or put in awe by some neoclassical guitarist, take a look at some of Yngwie J Malmsteen’s songs
How To Write a Killer Guitar Riff – Part One
A riff is simply a short, repeatable line of music that sticks out from everything else in the song. You can look at a riff as a signature on a piece of paper… it identifies the piece of music. The one thing that will give you a song that your audience will remember is having a few awesome riffs.
10 Ways To Improve Your Guitar Playing
So what is the key to guitar playing success? While there is no one answer that can solve everyone’s problem, there are a number of concepts and theories that can help you break through the barrier that keeps you from reaching your full potential.
How to Play Blues Guitar – Part One
Blues guitar is one of the most intriguing and interesting genres that is out there. It has a rich history, interesting people and a way of expressing emotion unlike any other style of music. Essentially, blues tells a story of one’s life experiences and has various themes ranging from travel to current events.
How to Play Jazz Guitar – Part Two
Jazz chords are, in my opinion, the most beautiful and eloquent chords available to guitarists. They are the true meaning of class. The sound aside, these chords are a great way to build your chops up and form you into a guitarist that knows their fretboard.
How To Play Jazz Guitar – Part One
The perfect example of a genre that evokes the most heart retching fear out of many guitarists is the thought of playing jazz guitar. There are so many different chords that have names many of us can’t even pronounce, coupled with flawless technique, lightning fast speed, sense and feel of emotion and knowing the theory behind it all. Who wouldn’t be a little freaked out?
Guitar Chords, Expanding Your Musical Vocabulary
For most of us, the first thing we learn to play on guitar are chords. Someone teaches us the major chords and some of the minor chords but that’s usually where it ends unless you get a chord book. The problem is, many of these books don’t explain the technique behind chords
How To Hold A Barre Chord
The barre chord is one of the most important chords you’ll need in your guitar playing. It’s an especially important chord in rock guitar method and the beauty of this chord is that once you can hold it, you’ll be able to move it anywhere on the fretboard
