How to learn to play guitar with the help of applications and Web services

Learning the basics of playing the guitar on your own - it's not a good idea. Retrained, simultaneously getting rid of the wrong habits is harder than learning to play an instrument from scratch. But to turn from amateur to professional help lessons on the Internet and specific applications.

Web services

Online Tutorials

Typically, on-demand "tutorial guitar" search services give hundreds of approximately the same sites of online counterparts paper publications. There is nothing wrong: these guides can give you the necessary theoretical knowledge, learn to play songs on the read tablature and chord fingerings.

• self-teacher GuitarProfy. Here you can find all the necessary theoretical basis for further self-development, a correlation table of notes on the staff and the guitar frets, as well as examples of classical guitar pieces.
• self-teacher GuitarUser. Small tutorial, written in plain language that will teach to accompany your favorite tracks. Suitable for those who want to sing a song to a friend with a guitar, but do not want to become a professional.

YouTube

Self-help guitar on YouTube, perhaps no less than text books. We advise to pay attention to those where lessons are reputable musicians, or channels with a substantial number of subscribers. The rest - be guided by personal preferences, and we will discuss two popular Russian-language channels on guitar.

pima Live

Channel Anton and Alexei - two of St. Petersburg, who not only share tips on the game and training, but also invite experts giving exclusive lessons, play instruments and guitars spread video reviews. There are videos for beginners and advanced guitarists.

Go to the Pima Live → Channel

GitaristTV

On this channel guitarist Paul lays out a thorough review of popular songs on acoustic guitar. The repertoire is wide: from pop hits Max Korzh to the soundtrack of "Interstellar".

GitaristTV → Go to channel

Interest clubs "VKontakte"

With a group of "VKontakte" increasingly difficult: many advanced guitar players do not communicate in the community for beginners, but the amateurs who consider themselves pro in such groups very much. We recommend skeptical to the professional advice of the groups and the Public. But such interest clubs can be very useful when looking for like-minded people, chords and tablature for songs. Also in these groups is almost always possible to find announcements about sale and purchase instruments.

• «Fans of guitar». One of the most popular bands of the guitar "VKontakte", with more than 120 thousand subscribers. In the community of open wall on which you can place your question.
• «guitar player». Another group with an open wall and a variety of content related to the guitar and music.
• «Guitars and guitarists». Project Flamenco guitarist Alexander Kuindzhi. On the wall of the record is not published, but are interested can ask a question in the discussions.

Programs

Guitar Pro

Musical editor, familiar to many who have dealt with the Song Lesson by tablature. You can record your track a variety of tools, export them to MIDI or print. The program has a metronome function display stave and guitar neck, the ability to record any nuances of articulation, and add effects. On the Internet you can find tablature for Guitar Pro to any well-known song. With search help special sites:

• 911tabs. Aggregator site, looking at the largest libraries of chords and tablature. Here you can find all the notes of the famous foreign songs and even many domestic compositions.
• GTP-tabs. A huge archive of scores of Russian and foreign songs.

Go to the Guitar Pro → site

DAW-program

Rewarding experience for any guitar player - listen to yourself from the side. To do this you need special application. DAW-software (sequencers) will help to record your compositions mix guitar track and create the accompaniment of the virtual instruments. There are at least a dozen decent sequencers. Newcomers are advised to pay attention to PreSonus Studio One, steinberg Cubase and Ableton Live.

apps

Yousician

An interactive tutorial for recognizing taken notes on the guitar using a microphone. You can take lessons in stages or focus on learning the songs from the library. The gameplay is reminiscent of Guitar Hero, just before you light up the colored circles and numbers labeled on the correct fret string. Free version of the game has restrictions, the premium subscription will cost 332 rubles a month when you purchase a year.

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Yousician Guitar, Piano & Bass

Developer: Yousician Ltd

Price: Free

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Yousician Guitar, Piano & Bass

Developer: Yousician Ltd.

Price: Free

Coach Guitar

This personal trainer will show different angles and with notes on a virtual fretboard, how to play your favorite songs. Each track is divided into fragments, so it was easier to remember. Also, instead of learning the songs can be selected Learning the technique of the game. Unfortunately, the full versions of these applications are expensive: a premium account costs 329 rubles a month.

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Coach Guitar: Playing the guitar

Developer: manomaya SA

Price: Free

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Coach Guitar: Play guitar, Songs, Tab, Chords

Developer: manomaya SA

Price: Free

GuitarTuna

Universal app for guitarists, which includes a tuner, metronome, lessons, chords and reference simulator hearing. The tuner can be used to tune your guitar, bass or ukulele. The free app has limitations and different types of subscriptions from 529 rubles (with a one-time purchase), but the tuner in standard tuning, you can use free of charge.

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GuitarTuna: Tuner for guitars

Developer: Yousician Ltd

Price: Free

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Guitar Tuner - Guitar Tuna

Developer: Yousician Ltd.

Price: Free