This video tutorial will show you! Pay attention to how he breaks down the guitar into it’s most simple, easy to understand components. Apply the fundamentals of the music staff to the guitar with this simple understanding of the guitar in mind. This will allow you to really visualize how notes are laid out on the guitar’s fretboard and begin to read music.

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Listen to the classic solo for “Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix. It sounds like it’s all over the place, right? Now watch the video demonstration below and pay close attention to where his hand moves around on the fretboard…it’s actually staying in almost the same place between the 13th and 15th frets the entire time!

The solo for “Hey Joe” is no doubt musically brilliant, but it’s also actually quite simple. This video slows it way down for you and shows you the exact fingering positions for the entire solo including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, etc. This is a great way to learn the correct notes before you begin to speed it up. Take the time to hit all of the notes and then continue to add in more of the vibrato and slides.

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Where can I find Guitar tabs?

911Tabs.com - Over 4 million guitar tabs with links to every major guitar tab site on the net!

BL Guitar Tabs - Free guitar tabs added daily.

CountryTabs.com - Tabs to almost any country song imaginable.

e-Tabs.org - Tabs with links to music downloads for each song!

GuitareTab.com - One of the largest and most popular, allows for ratings of each tab.

GuitarTabs.cc - One of the easiest guitar tab sites to peruse, lots of tabs!

GuitarTabs.com - Nice search engine for guitar tabs on the net.

MetalTabs.com - Good assortment of metal tabs all in one place.

MXtabs.net - Has lots of guitar, bass and drums tabs together.

Tabcrawler - Tabs, lyrics, articles and more!

Tabs-Database.com - Massive collection of guitar tabs, bass tabs and lyrics!

Ultimate-Guitar.com - The behemoth, anything and everything guitar tabs!

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Part 2 of the highly effective and helpful technique to memorize guitar chords. Remember not to “walk” the chords one at a time but “land” them all at once. It takes some practice but once you begin to utilize this technique regularly, you will begin to really see better results in memorizing and “grabbing” guitar chords however difficult they may be.

Let me know how it works for you, leave me a comment by clicking on the comment link or entering them in the form below!

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