I am a junior at the Manhattan School of Music. I have been playing the guitar for about 1 year now and I made this website to help other people in the beginning and intermediate stages of guitar playing.

I play the acoustic and the electric guitar but my favorite is the acoustic guitar. Although play more acoustic guitar because I am a big fan of Jack Johnson, I am one of the biggest fans of Mark Knopfler!

I have written several articles on how to play the guitar, about beginner guitar lessons and easy guitar songs.

I am working on a few video tutorials that I will upload to YouTube and post on this site. This will be free instructional material and guitar lessons for beginners that anyone can follow through here!

I hope you enjoy my site and find it useful to learn how to play the guitar! If you enjoy my site and my articles please leave a comment, I love hearing your opinions!

If you want to be able to play easy guitar songs and get better so you can improve your guitar playing skills you have to be able not only to read the guitar tabs, you also have to get to know the song and get used to the sound of it. Before you start playing a song on your guitar you should listen to the song a time or two. The easiest guitar songs are the ones that use only 3 chords.

When you hear the song for the first time listen to the rhythm and timings that are played with the guitar. After you have heard the songs one or two times you can start recognize the chords and strums. The next time you hear the song you have to follow it reading the guitar tab. Do this a few times to get used to the timing and the rhythm of the song.

The next step is to pick up your guitar and follow the song. Don’t play your guitar to loud because you want to concentrate on the song that is playing and get a better feel for the rhythm. Do this a few times until you get the right strumming and timing.

Now you can start playing the easy guitar songs by yourself. If you mess it up don’t worry, listen to the song a few more times and try again. It is not going to work on the fist time, mistakes are natural. Keep practicing the same song until you know how to play it, don’t switch from one song to another before you can play it. If you are changing songs before mastering them you will not be able to play one right and you will hinder your learning process.

After you learn to play the easy guitar song you can start singing and playing at the same time.

You can use a digital camera and make a film of you playing and singing. You can watch yourself playing and pinpoint any mistakes you are making. Learning how to play guitar is not hard but you will have to practice a lot and have patience, you won’t be a Mark Knopfler in a month. If you are making mistakes and get frustrated don’t continue for too long, get distracted and come back. If you are getting irritated and nervous you will make even more mistakes and make the beginner guitar lessons an unpleasant thing.