Welcome to the beginner guitar lessons section of Guitar Tricks ®. Here is where you will find lessons for absolute beginners that are brand new to guitar, as well as some material for brushing up on the fundamentals, if you have some familiarity but are still at the beginner level. Ironically, a guitar player who truly masters one scale inside and out all over the guitar fingerboard will have far more to say musically (and will be much more creative doing it) than a guitar player who knows 30 different scales as pieces” (individual shapes) scattered around the guitar.
I’ve covered the most common techniques used in lead playing, and those are the ones you absolutely have to master when learning how to play electric guitar as a solo instrument, but there are other, more advanced techniques that you might like to look at as well.
Left-handed players sometimes choose …