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…
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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!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween from Creative Spark Guitar Instruction! Who doesn’t love a holiday built around candy and dressing up—which is also very rock and roll. To celebrate, here are the masters of “Halloween rock”, Oingo Boingo, with “Dead Man’s Party”. The riff…
Featured Guitarist Video: Brian May
It’s no wonder Queen’s Brian May is high up on Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest guitar players of all time. May combines a rare combination of disciplined playing techniques and original composition, gear, and arranging that made him extremely…
Featured Guitarist Video: Andy McKee
Andy McKee describes himself as “Just this guy from Topeka, Kansas, who kind of blew up on the Internet about a week before Christmas.” Andy seemed to come out of nowhere when a number of simple videos of him playing…
Featured Guitarist Video: David Gilmour
In the mid 1970s, music changed forever with the outbreak of Pink Floyd’s innovative and completely unprecedented Dark Side of the Moon. For nearly 10 years the band would continue their evolutionary musical direction and sound. It’s almost impossible to imagine…