James Walkers

Guitar Blog

Hello welcome to my blog, this is where I put all of my free guitar lessons, I've covered a range of topics that you might find helpful or enlightening. You can navigate by clicking on one of the categories below and choosing a lesson.

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Learning the Guitar

Beginner's Guide

A free guide for beginners looking to get started with playing the guitar, I cover a few different topics all aimed at complete beginners who want to get a basic grasp on guitar playing.

How To

Reading TAB

How to read tab & identify what all of the symbols mean.

1-2-1 Guitar Lessons

What is 1-2-1 tuition and how does it work? Is it right for you and how can you benefit from private tuition with a guitar tutor. It all depends on what type of learner you are and what your goals are, this will dictate if a guitar tutor is right for you.

Chord Boxes

How to read a chord box correctly and play it right every time.

Maintenance & Tone

Make your Guitar sound great

I cover everything from cleaning/restringing your guitar, amp settings, effects and various other ways you can carve out and alter/improve your tone.

Reading Music

Your first step towards reading & understanding sheet music.

Tuning

How to tune your 

guitar the right way.

Genre Studies

Blues

Breaking down the blues to its most basic building blocks and building it back up again, adding as we go. We'll look at the shuffle rhythm, chords & scales for the blues and how to solo.

Folk

Learning folk music is great for any guitar player as a lot of it contains the basic open chords most of us know, using these chords creatively we can play great folk tunes super quickly!

Rock

For those about to rock, we salute you. I'll show you how to get the rock sound, as well as how to play in the rock style by understanding how it's put together and how the legends do it.

Funk

If you're feeling funky then this guide is for you, starting from the basics of funk moving to more much complex chops, a fun look into funk & how to play it by understanding how it's built.

Music Theory

Chords

A break down of all of the most used and useful chords, how they are used as well as tips and tricks on nailing them.

Scales

What is a scale and how do we use them? A look into guitar scales and their application as well as diagrams of the best and most used scales in various positions & keys.

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