Starting today, each Thursday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow guitar scale that you will be able to use in any key. These exercises will contain the most useful scales in positions that will allow you to play…
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Jeff Feldman is a guitar instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in teaching beginners and songwriting development.
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Wednesday Guitar Chords #1: A-D-E
To start off our day of guitar chords, here are three very commonly used open chords that are very often played together. A, D, and E are three chords you will see appearing together over and over again, especially in…
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Wednesday Guitar Chords Intro
Starting today, each Wednesday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow guitar chord exercise that you can that will help you improve your guitar playing immediately. These exercises will contain new chord shapes, chord progressions, and strumming patterns as…
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Tuesday Guitar Tip #1: Alternating Picking
Our first tip is going to be the first tip I got as a young guitar student many years ago. After discovering the guitar and noodling around for a few months on my own, this one little secrete made me…
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Tuesday Guitar Tips Intro
Starting today, each Tuesday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow guitar tip that you can that will help you improve your guitar playing immediately. Check out the intro video below!
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Monday Exercise #1
For our first Monday Exercise, we’re going to take a simple and easy exercise that countless guitarists have used to build dexterity, strength, stamina, and to quickly warm up the fingers. This type of exercise is sometimes called a chromatic…
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Monday Exercises Intro
Starting today, each Monday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow exercise that you can do in just a few minutes or seconds to improve your guitar playing immediately. Check out the intro video below!
Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Beginner Guitar Hacks Intro
This series is for beginning guitarists who want to start playing well fast. Over the years, many of my non-musician friends have expressed awe and amazement when I would start strumming my guitar along to a song I was hearing…
The guitar blog is back!
After a hiatus, the Creative Spark Guitar Instruction blog is back in business! I’ve been working on several article series and projects to share here, including free guitar lessons, troubleshooting tips, games and challenges, and fun and educational pieces.…
The Perfect Practice Sandwich
Let’s face it, practicing guitar can be a pain sometimes. Why can’t you just play songs you enjoy when you feel like it and not worry about making time for it, doing exercises, or going over the harder parts? The…