At Guitar Tricks® we make learning how to play songs a lot of fun!
Our instructors cover every section of the song slowly at first, and once you get each part down you get to play along with a professional backing band! For difficult songs we offer a 'Songs Made Easy' version for beginners, which is simplified to the basic chords and one guitar part.
Each song includes accurate guitar tabs as well as standard music notation.
Free Lesson: Sweet Home Alabama (Made Easy!)
Anders will show you this classic Southern Rock anthem in a version that has been made easy, so you can hang at any level.
This is a really fun song that almost everyone knows, and it features three basic chords repeating throughout the whole song, so if you can learn and perform even the simplest version of it, it is bound to pay off.
In these lessons Lee Wanner will teach you "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", by Otis Redding. Lee will introduce the song and talk about gear and tone, then teach the intro and outro. This song has both acoustic and electric guitar, and Lee will break down the verse, chorus, and bridge parts on both instruments. For fun, we'll learn the famous whistling melody, then we'll do full and single guitar performances. We'll end with a jam along.
Anders will show you how to play this song in a simple way, so you and other people can sing along and have some fun with it. He'll start with an easy way to adapt the intro riff. Then he'll show you how to adapt the bittersweet verse, upbeat chorus and breakdown.
Mike will show you all the parts to this classic rock ballad based on R&B and country ideas. There are steady acoustic strumming, dynamics and harmonics, as well as some country-influenced lead techniques using a combination of acoustic and electric guitars.
In this series of lessons, Michael Elsner takes you through the various elements of the classic Poison ballad, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". You'll learn the chords and tuning, the verse and chorus progressions, the bridge and solo section progressions, the strumming variations, the three solos, and of course a play along with our custom backing track.
Mike will show you the two gritty clean electric guitars in this song. Guitar 1 is the rhythm guitar that plays some steady riffs and chords throughout. Guitar 2 combines complimentary rhythm parts with lead fills and a raging guitar solo.
In this series of song lessons, Caren Armstrong will teach "Who Will Save Your Soul", by Jewel. Caren will talk about the song and the gear and tone, then go over the chords used, the strum pattern, and the song form before she details the intro, verse, chorus, the breakdown, and the ending. You'll do a play along performance with Caren, then play the song by yourself in the jam along.
In this tutorial, Anders Mouridsen will teach "Let It Be", as made famous by The Beatles. Anders will talk about the song and the gear and tones, then start in with teaching the piano part on acoustic guitar. Next we'll look into the chorus of the song, followed by the breakdown riff. Next are the elements of the solo; then the extended chorus. We'll review the song form before doing full and single guitar performances, then a jam along.
Caren will show you an acoustic guitar part arranged to play along with this classic tune. She'll show you the basic chord progressions, the finger picking pattern and a bonus lesson on how to mimic the famous piano motif.
Mike will show you the 2 guitars in this song. Guitar 1 is a crunch electric guitar that plays lead in the intro and outro. Guitar 2 is a clean electric guitar that adapts the synth chord progressions in an R&B style.
Let's learn a very simple arrangement of a beautiful melody: Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" theme! We'll take this one in three steps: first the single note melody, the we'll learn the theme in two voices, and finally we'll add a third voice for a full arrangement.
Anders will teach you all the fantastic rock guitar playing in this tune. First there's the call & response based main riff, then a rocking rhythm guitar part, then a slide solo followed by a standard blues-rock licks solo.
In this tutorial, Mike Olekshy will teach "More Than A Feeling", as made famous by Boston. Mike will teach all 5 guitar layers in this tutorial. A 12 string acoustic kicks off the song with an iconic arpeggiated riff that appears in all the verse sections. A clean electric guitar adds some ringing harmonics and arpeggiated chords. A crunch guitar sets the chorus sections on fire, and two additional lead guitars add some melodic harmonized leads. All of these guitars appear throughout the tune creating a rich tapestry of sound that became an industry standard of how to multi-layer guitars in the studio.
Mike will show your both guitar layers. Guitar 1 is the rhythm guitar tuned to open G that gives the song its distinctive country flavored sound. Guitar 2 is the lead guitar that adds some exciting solo blending major and minor pentatonic sounds, combining rock and country flavors into to the arrangement.
Mike will show you the 2 guitar layers in this song. Guitar 1 is a clean textural guitar that plays the lower dynamic parts, while Guitar 2 is a heavy crunch guitar that plays some dropped D style riffs throughout the arrangement.
Mike will show you both electric guitar layers. Guitar 1 plays the main rhythm with that iconic country-ish guitar riff played in open G tuning that gives this song its distinctive sound. Guitar 2 adds to the arrangement with single note fills.
Mike will show you both guitar parts in this song. He'll take you through the whole step down tuning, open chords and barre chords, cut time feel, steady strumming patterns, hybrid picking, and some lead guitar approaches using chord shapes.
Mike will show you the 2 guitar parts in this song. Guitar 1 is a shimmery clean electric guitar that strums the chord progressions. Guitar 2 is an overdriven electric guitar that plays a few lead fills and an extended, emotional outro solo.
Caren will show you how to strum an easy guitar part along with this classic blues tune. She will show you the three chords required to play along with the tune. This is required material for just about any blues jam, and in this tutorial we’ll learn an easy acoustic guitar part to strum along with the band!
