Guitar Websites

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pejay

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245 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th June 2009
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Hi All,

After walking down Denmark Street in London and all of it's guitar shops on a daily basis I finally caved in and bought my first guitar about 4 months ago cool

Does anyone know if there are any websites where you can enter the chords you've already learnt and it suggests other songs that you could play with those chords?

I would have thought that there would be lots of websites like this but haven't seen any.

Cheers!

garycat

4,458 posts

212 months

Saturday 6th June 2009
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no, but http://www.justinguitar.com/ is one of the best tuition sites

Alfanatic

9,339 posts

221 months

Sunday 7th June 2009
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garycat said:
no, but http://www.justinguitar.com/ is one of the best tuition sites
I second that. His lessons are the best I've come across. Better than the live tutors I've had even, which probably says as much about my choice of tutors as it does about Justin

EDIT:

Oh, that's a great idea for a website BTW, OP. You might want to register that!

Edited by Alfanatic on Sunday 7th June 10:27

Dracoro

8,712 posts

247 months

Sunday 7th June 2009
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There's loads of sites with guitar chords/tab.

Many/most songs don't particularly use that many challenging chords, especially where "pop" music is concerned. Best find a few of your fav songs and see if any of them have simple chord progressions and try those.

You could also try playing some songs in a different key that matches the chords you know. Or get a capo to change the chords you do know into the key that the song is in. Experimenting is part of the fun and the journey of learning the guitar.

My advise would be to learn the main chords(A,Bb,B,C,C#,D,Eb,E,F,F#,G,G#) in both major and minor form. Don't worry too much about other types at this stage (e.g. your 7th, 13ths etc...) Depending on the guitar and how easy you are finding it as you whether you use open or bar chords (and/or a mixture of them over time). Bar chords may be easier to learn as you just move up or down frets to get the chord. Open chords, imo, often sound better for many chords but harder to learn as a fair bit more hand shapes you need to learn.

good luck.

Mystic Slippers

406 posts

205 months

Monday 8th June 2009
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Another vote for justin,but there is a mass of guitar lessons for all abilities on utube ,justins included some videos even have the tab showing on the top of the screen.
Some of my best stuff ive learnt recently has come from watching utube lessons !


Maxf

8,411 posts

243 months

Monday 8th June 2009
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Also check out Guitarjamz on youtube. I actually got on better with his lessons than Justins (although justinguitar was great).