Beginner Guitar Lessons

good!!!!

Hi John,
i am interested in both 6 and 12 string guitar.

mainly i have been playing by ear.Any help will be appriciated
thanks
lou

hello i would love to receive more of your free guitar lessons and wanting to learn more too

Thanks, John, but I don't really need lessons at this level. Keep up the great work, though.

Thank you.i really need some of them.

hey!!! if u really come with it, dat would be a great help for the beginners…
i would wait eagerly for it…

Well done john, I need all the help I can get!!!

Baz

Sounds good to this Kiwi

Chords are difficult for beginners. Thanks for the ease

I wouldn't begin to tell you how to proceed. I'm in your capable hands. I need to get over the hump I've been stuck on for years, so I'm hoping that this does it.

Dear John;

I am very interested in your beginner course as I need as much help
as I can get. It seems that I cannot get it from a book and to where it should be. It feels like I have to be shown before it sinks in.

Great Idea! Sign me up! I need all the help I can get.

I like it! Thanks!

John, I must tell you, when I was sick last year and had nothing but time on my hands, I decided to learn the guitar. As a keyboard player, I thought it would be easy. Well, i was wrong, but your few intro's and quick teaching to the basic's has me playing 6 – 8 different chords and now i can play and sing abunch of tunes, and for that I thank you! Not sure which is my next direction, but I think learning to your videos will open more options for me. Keep up the great work!

Thanks. At your suggestion, I bought the Learn and Master series and agree that it is good…not just snazzy licks and pieces of songs, but a real foundation from the beginning. I looked at your course and the guitar chords free instructional material and feel like it is the next step after the Learn and Master series because you appear to pay a good deal more attention to music theory…without which you are really just memorizing bits and pieces. But the bits and pieces at the beginning level would seem to make learning the theory and putting to use on the fretboard a bit easier. Thanks for all of your continuing efforts to teach music AND the guitar at the same time.
Rick Verlander (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

Thanks John,
I have tried this kind of thing before but all the courses seem to jump suddenly to an advanced stage that I cannot handle whichbrings it all to a grinding halt. Very frustrating. I hope you can proceed in small steps that follow in a logical sequence. I don't think I'm an idiot but I am having a hard time making progress.
Dave

hi, sometimes i wonder if the guitar i use is too big? how do i know if it is?? i just realized i have more incentive if i already have a song to start with with the chords in it…instead of playing and practicing chords over and over…is this wrong>>??
thankyou

Looking forward for the course…Thx

Wicked web site, really looking forward to the course

I would love it if, like said in an earlier comment, you could put out a video with "baby steps". I too am having a hard time, My fingers are big and clumsy. any help and or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Getting back to the video, I think it would be a great idea as i am in the embriotic stages of learining the guitar and could use all the help i can get. Thank You for all the help so far, and in advance for any help in the future….

It's a good way for the beginner to try something they don't know.

Thank You, I could use it, I do Prison Ministry @ Beeville Prison, Beeville Texas, it would be put to good use. Thank You

Hey
First i would like to thank you for all these free services u are giving with an open heart. These services are allowing for many beginners to have the courage and to trust themselves knowing that they are able one day to be good- yet successful- Musicians.
I would like to add that i am not a total beginner, it has been two years that i'm playing guitar. But thanks to many researches i have made and thanks to your courses i have been able to progress until this day.
But i won't stop here, i'll be always looking for mistakes that i do, and this is one of the reasons i have asked to get the video lessons.
Anyway i'm looking forward certainly for the tips and course lessons.
Keep it up!

hi JOHN CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ON THE MODES AND BLUES SCALES THANKS PAT S

Nope. This is for beginners. Working with the Phase 1 Ernie Ball book.

Stopping bad habits before they start is most important. This is about my 10th time starting guitar, and I have developed many bad habits along the way.

Having to go back and correct them is very hard to do. I hope I don't find too many more that I have to correct.

Free lessons sounds great!! Thanks

Thank you, this will surely help me out as I am truly a beginner.

I'm trying to learn to play lead acoustic guitar. will this help me > and if not whatdo you have that will.
Jim

Hi Jim. Long time no hear. How much are you willing to invest? Have you thought of joining Fretboard Domination?

if the cost is worth the value and gets me to play lead I'm willing to pay what ever you need as long as it's not so much it becomes to expensive

I'm having fun learning.
Thanks I could use the help.
keep up the great work

Yes, please. I need it because I stopped playing in the seventies, and I do not remember a single note. And thank you.

great man !!!!

this would be an awesome idea it will stop me from playing round in circles the same old song regards Yusuf

Thanks, thanks, thanks a lot!

i would be more then interested. sometimes having visuals to help out with the tuff parts is most excelent.

Hello John…
I was wondering if you had something along the lines of Intermediate to a advanced level?? I would have to be honest and say that I am by no means a beginner, but nor am I a pro either. I am able to pick up on playing with people or videos showing me a visual of what to play, however I am terriable at trying to learn a song just by ear alone. Unfortunately, the military as riuned my hearing to some degree, but even with this obsticle, I still love to play. My biggest problem is trying to learn theory, there is just so many scales, keys, and modes, just to name a few. It seems so confusing, I am sure there is an easier way to learn them, I just haven't found it yet. The only way that seems to be easy enough for me to do it,is to watch someone do it and explain it to me as they are doing it. Again I am a very visual person when it comes to learning. I have seen other website claiming they can do this, but because you advertised it for Free I figured I would give it a try first. Think you can help me?

Thanks!

Hi Matt, unfortunately it's going to be some time before I can create this course. Also, I'll only do it if there is enough interest. But it wouldn't be at the level you are asking about.

You ask about scales, keys, modes etc. The theory. It's quite simple really. The way I look at it is that there is only one scale you need to learn. The Major Scale. It covers the entire fretboard. I call it the Master Pattern. It's a movable pattern that you just move along the neck to get to other keys. The fingerings, chords, modes are exactly the same for all keys.

The major scale is also the minor scale. Same fingering, chords, modes etc. This one Master Pattern scale works for 95% of the music we listen to. The chords come from it, the modes come from it etc.

I have a member site where I have created a full one year course about all this. Videos and PDF ebooks. Once a month you get 4 new lessons. It's a paid membership. There's a free section where I give out some basic play guitar tips and introduce the Master Pattern. You could join that then ask questions from there.

It's at http://www.PlayGuitarBlog.com

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