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Home The Guitar What is Music? Chords Playing the guitar Online Tuner Glossary Chord finder Forum Lessons The Guitar Buying your guitar Anatomy of the guitar Tuning your guitar Restringing your guitar What is Music? Notes Map of the fretboard The Major scale The C Major scale Other scales Time signatures Tempo Chords defined Open Major chords Open minor chords Open Major 7th chords Open 7th chords Open B7th chord Open minor 7th chords Barre chords defined E-form barre chords A-form barre chords Suspended 2 chords Suspended 4 chords Extended chords defined Extended chords Power chords Slash chords - Inversions Dim, aug, 6th Chords summarized Progressions - simple Progressions - harder The CAGED Template Playing the Guitar Reading Tablature Strumming Finger picking / Finger style Hammer-ons Pull-offs Harmonics Vibrato Bending Muting Sliding Slide Guitar Using a Capo Transposition Table

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Hi, I'm Kirk Lorange. I'm a self-taught player who first picked up a guitar in 1961 and I've been playing professionally since 1969, both in the studio and onstage. I created this site in 2000. If you are so inclined, you can visit my personal site here, listen to my music here and watch my movies here. You'll find me most days at the Forum where you should feel free to ask me, and our many knowledgeable members, any questions about anything music and guitar related. The movies I have put together for the content section are not free. There are close to 100 of them. They complement the text and graphics in the Music/Guitar Primer. You can watch a sample clicking here. Look for the image below to learn more about how you can start watching them.

Welcome to Guitar for Beginners and Beyond     Beginner? Have a read through my Music/Guitar Primer The Guitar: where I write about the instrument itself, buying, tuning, restringing. What is Music?: a quick, plain English look at what music is and its basic structure, notes, scales, time and tempo. Chords: a huge subject. Learn about what they are, where they come from, the various flavors they come in, what they look like on the fretboard and how they string together, in Time, as progressions. This is the most important topic of all. Playing the Guitar: an overview of the various techniques, like strumming, bending, muting, using a capo, vibrato, tablature and lots more. Use the dropdown menu at the top of each page to see the full list of topics.     Beyond the beginner stage? Check out the fingerstyle lessons I have put together over the years. Over 100 of them of various levels of difficulty. Use the player in the right hand column to listen to them all. There are also a bunch of general lessons, Master Lessons and some great lessons by other members.     Lonely? Join the GfB&B community. Over 100,000 friendly and helpful members, many of them old pros more than willing to pass on their expertise. Come and hang out with us, post your tunes, pics of your gear, collaborate on song ideas, whatever. _________________________________________________________________ PlaneTalk This is a book/DVD I put together for those who have the basics down but are 'stuck', wondering how to fit all the bits an pieces of the musical puzzle together, how to see the whole fretboard as friendly, well worn territory and how to make headway in the mysterious art of improvisation. It has its own site here. Testimonials. Slide DVD One of my favorite ways of playing is to slip one of my beautiful brass slides over my pinky and let it do the work. I play in standard and dropped D tunings, and I put together a DVD revealing all I know about the art. I also sell my beautiful custom-made slides, machined out of solid brass. Check it out here.

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