10 MUST KNOW Guitar Chords for Every Beginner - Steve Stine Guitar Lessons

In this guitar lesson, Steve Stine discusses 10 Essential Guitar Chords that any guitar player should know.

These chords are the most common "open chords" that guitar players use when learning or writing songs of many different styles:

Here are the major chords:
A Major
C Major
D Major
E Major
F Major
G Major

Here are the minor chords:
A minor
B minor
D minor
E minor

Needless to say there are many other guitar chords, but this is a great place to start for anyone in need of learning the "guitar basics".

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Steve Stine Guitar Lesson - Essential Guitar Strumming Secrets

In this guitar lesson, Steve Stine discusses key guitar techniques to create successful guitar strumming.

To learn to effectively strum the guitar, there are certain elements that are essential to making your guitar strums sound "authentic".

How to restring a classical guitar

Restringing Your Classical Guitar

Restringing a classical or nylon string guitar can be fiddly. This great video shows you how to do it.

How To Figure Out Chords To Songs

Using Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles and She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel, we walk through the steps to deciphering the chords to songs, just by using our ears and our voices.

It doesn't matter if it's piano or guitar as the process is the same...

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How to instantly improve your songwriting

There is a huge number of topics we could go into to make your songwriting more original and more self expressive, but I wanted to give you two quick ideas that you can begin experimenting with today (without needing to learn a lot of other preliminary skills first).    

 

How To Improve Your Vibrato

How To Improve Your Vibrato   

Vibrato and string bends are critically important elements of lead guitar playing.  Unfortunately, many players do not know how to practice them correctly.  I have two very powerful tips to offer you that will help you 

to instantly improve these two techniques: