Some Great Guitar Licks You Can Learn Today

When improvising it’s much easier to use licks that you’ve practiced rather than starting from scratch every time. A great way to add them into your practice routine is to find out which key they’re in, run through a few scale warm-ups, put on your metronome and make a start.

I prefer to write down the licks as I play them, I know I can just print them out from the net and keep them in a folder, but I prefer to increase the chance that I’ll remember them as I’m learning them by using every piece of memory retention available to me, and writing down what you know with a pen on paper is one of the best ways to do that.

So, get out a blank piece of tab sheet music, load up the following licks from the net and write them down as you play them.

5 Essential Guitar Tools I Couldn’t Live Without

You’ve got a guitar and you’re set… right?

Learning guitar can be much easier when you have the right guitar tools on hand and there’s been some guitar tools in my studio that are like staple foods for me, I couldn’t live without them. Some of these things are obvious, like you should always have a good collection of picks, but often overlooked, sometimes it’s easy to get attached to one pick when you might benefit from changing picks for different styles of music.

How to Play Guitar Standing Up

You know you’ve nailed something on the guitar when you can play it just as easily standing up as you can sitting down.

Learning how to play guitar standing up not only gives you the buzz of showmanship it reinforces the techniques you’ve learned while sitting down, which improves your flexibility as a guitarist.

7 Free Online Guitar Tuners

Tuning your guitar can be as simple as tuning to a single pitch (usually using the A string) and relatively tuning your guitar from that note, right through to tuning each string to it’s desired pitch.

If you primarily have your guitar hooked up to your computer for practice and your chosen piece of software doesn’t come with a tuner (for whatever reason) then you should check out these free online guitar tuners, which often do more than the label says.