Guitar Tutorials – Intermediate Guitar
This is where things start to heat up.
- Intermediate guitar tutorials aren’t all just about lead guitar playing.
- In fact, much of the intermediate realm of guitar playing centers around improving upon what we already know and adding new knowledge to our arsenal.
Start here to get your footing, and move forward from there.
Once you’ve gotten a proper introduction to some of the concepts you’ll be learning about in the guitar tutorials above, we recommend you begin learning about arpeggios first.
Pro Tip: Arpeggios are a great way to enhance our chord knowledge by giving ourselves a new way of approaching them – by playing their notes individually rather than all at once.
Arpeggios don’t just teach us how to play the individual notes of a chord, though.
They also help us substantially with things like ear training – making our ears more alert to the intervals being played inside each chord.
Once you’ve had your fill of arpeggios, you can move on to our guitar tutorials on chords below:
- Guitar Chord Charts – Learn Chords in ALL Keys – A step by step method for memorizing chords in every key.
- You’re going to want to look at barre chords and begin to master the concept of using your whole hand to play chords.
To finish off this section, make sure you check out our ultimate guide to guitar chords here.
Guitar Tutorials – Theory
Tired yet? No? Good, because we’re not done.
Our next stop is music theory, and it’s important.
- It’s often debated as to whether or not music theory is a thing that every musician should learn.
- We believe that it’s ultimately up to you what you want to learn, but it never hurts to arm yourself with more knowledge.
Our theory-based guitar tutorials are designed to give you the right head-start in terms of understanding music theory and applying it to your own playing. Check out our 10-step system for music theory here.
Learning the fretboard is arguably the most important part of guitar theory, and it takes time to memorize. In order to unlock the fretboard, we need to study the notes and their positions.
Pro Tip: Everything is relative in music theory. Once you find the root notes of the chords and scales that you’re used to playing, you’ll understand the flow of notes much better.
Pay attention to where things begin.
Whether it be a chord or a scale, you’ll want to know what the root note is and where it begins. Once we master this concept, music theory becomes much easier to understand.
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Guitar Tutorials – Lead Guitar
Lead guitar playing is a very personal thing, and it’s where we really start to see developments in our own sound.
- As broad of a concept as it might seem, learning how to play lead guitar can be broken down and made simple much like any other musical concept.
- Click here to check out the first of our guitar tutorials on how to play lead guitar.
- Lead guitar playing takes a firm musical understanding of concepts such as the key of the song, the chords and which scales to use.
We lay out 9 pro tips for lead guitar playing for you here if you need to be pointed in the right direction.
Where scales are concerned, there are quite a few guitar tutorials on our website that would be quite useful, so we’ve listed the last of them off for you below:
- C Major Scale For Lead Guitarists
- Major Scale – An Essential Guide
- A Minor Pentatonic Scale
- 5 Essential Scales
- E Minor Pentatonic Scale
- 9 Major Scale Patterns For Lead Guitarists
- Guitar Scales Tabs
- Jazz Guitar Scales
It’s important to keep a well-rounded education as a guitarist.
No matter what we learn, it’s always to our benefit to memorize it and apply it to our own playing.
Remember: There is no such thing as bad knowledge unless it creates a bad habit.
Thanks for exploring our wide list of guitar tutorials with us!!
Where Do I Go From Here?
Want more out of this list of guitar tutorials?
We recommend:
- Review these lessons with a practice buddy
- Take these lessons to your guitar instructor for further clarity
- PRACTICE!
- Keep a practice journal in order to keep track of the things you’ve learned
- Jam with your favorite songs!
Recommended Resources
If you loved these guitar tutorials, we’ve packed in a few more miscellaneous topics for good measure to keep you on your toes!
- How To Play Power Chords
- Spanish Guitar Lessons
- CAGED System – How To Master Chords
- Best YouTube Guitar Lessons
- Guitar Tone – The Ultimate Guide
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