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Learn How To Play Guitar Free

You can learn to play guitar free. How? I hear you ask. With the power of the internet, of course. No longer are expensive guitar instructor lessons required for you to master your guitar playing. You simply need to do a quick web search, find the guitar tabs you are after and begin playing. Easy as that!

Online guitar lessons have become the next big thing. In fact, it is the current big thing and probably will be for the rest of time.

The good news is that many of them are completely free. You can learn to play guitar free with these online lessons, and it is actually much easier than going to real world guitar classes, as you can pause, rewind and have complete control over what you are learning.

The free online guitar lessons take the form of simple guitar tabs, audio lessons and even video lessons where you are able to see someone play guitar and all you need to do is mimic him! It really is as good as having Eric Clapton sitting next to you. People have mastered their guitar playing ability solely through learning to play guitar free online. Ten years ago that would have been unheard of, with people spending many thousands of dollars to play guitar. These days the majority of amateurs are learning online.

It takes dedication and discipline to learn to play guitar free using the Internet. There is no one to tell you when to practice or how long to play for. If you have the desire to succeed in your guitar playing, you will be greatly rewarded once you begin to read guitar tabs and learn the basics of guitar playing from online courses and websites.

With the ease of learning guitar for free, there is no reason why you can not become a fantastic player within a matter of just a few months. In fact, from the time I learnt to read guitar tabs to when I was first able to play a full rock song on guitar, the time taken was less than a month. So what are you waiting for? Pick up that guitar and start playing!

Jazz Guitar Scales Common Scales Used In Jazz Guitar part 1

Learning jazz guitar scales can be a very daunting project. For the jazz newbie there seems to be an endless number of jazz scales that have to be learnt. It can be very overwhelming, and it can often be hard to even know where to start!

In this series of articles we’ll take a look at some of the most important jazz guitar scales that you need to know. Mastering these scales will help you become more fluent and confident with your jazz guitar improvisation. So without any more delay, let’s take a look at the first jazz guitar scale…

***Jazz Guitar Scale #1: The Dorian Mode***

–The Dorian Mode: Some Basic Theory–

Mastering this scale is vital for improvising in a jazz style. Unless you master it, you WILL struggle playing jazz. Yep…it’s THAT important. It is hard for me to imagine a jazz song where I wouldn’t need to use it!

The dorian mode has the following formula…

1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7

This formula tells us what we need to do to the major scale in order to create the dorian mode. Let’s work out the notes of the D dorian mode to make things clear…

Step 1:

Write down the notes of the D major scale. Doing this gives us these notes…

D E F# G A B C#

Step 2:

Flatten the third and seventh notes of the D major scale. We have to do this because the formula of the dorian more has a b3 and a b7. Flattening these notes gives us this…

D E F G A B C

These are the notes of the D dorian mode.

–The Dorian Mode: Where To Use It–

The dorian mode works really well over minor 7th chords. So in our example above, we would use the D dorian mode over D minor 7th chords. The reason why the dorian mode works so well over minor 7th chords is because the formula for minor 7th chords is 1 b3 5 b7. Notice how these chord tones are also in the formula for the dorian mode.

To help you learn the dorian mode, here is a cool sounding four bar chord progression. Your goal is to master soloing over it…

// Dmin7 / Dmin7 / Fmin7 / Fmin7 //

To improvise over this chord progression use D dorian for the first two bars, and F dorian for the last two bars. It can be quite challenging to switch between the two scales fluently. Especially if you recorded the chord progression at a really fast tempo. But that’s what makes jazz fun!