Do you remember those comics to learn to play the guitar? Depending on your age, it will be difficult to remember them, but there was a time when, in order to learn guitar on your own, you had to go to newsstand and buy a magazine with figures and hints.
Time passed, Youtube gained space with its video lessons and now it is possible learn guitar with just one app on the cellphone! And there are many options that will help, with tips, exercises, tuner and, depending on the app, even video lessons.
The apps will help a lot by showing you how to do it, however, one of the most important things when learning to play is that have perseverance, after all, it is something that will demand daily practice and that may take a while to have satisfactory results.
Are you wanting to learn to play the guitar, here you will find some applications that can help a lot during the process.
Cifraclub, one of the classics for learning guitar
One of the first sites that emerged as a substitute of the famous cipher magazines, was the cifraclub.com and now, it's not just on the website that you can use its services. After all, cifraclub launched its own application, where it is possible to have several resources and without paying.
Through the application, the user has access to more than 413 thousand figures of songs, of practically all genres and styles, and it is even possible to create playlist with favorite songs, that is, building your own repertoire (although some chords are not 100% accurate).
And, for the user who still doesn't know absolutely anything, not even reading a figure, there is no problem, through the application he will have more than 2,000 video lessons showing exactly how to assemble the chords, rhythm, beat of songs and, finally, if in the process the guitar ends up out of tune, the application has the tuner too.
CoachGuitar: how to play guitar, guitar lessons
Another very good application to learn guitar and guitar is “CoachGuitar: how to play guitar, guitar lessons”. This application brings a unique teaching method, using colors as the main tools for memorizing the scales.
This is not the ideal application if you want to have theoretical knowledge, it will only bring the practical part, with lessons, videos and animations with scales and other important tips for learning to play.
In addition to trying to create fun videos, the application developers understand that it is, in a way, common to get discouraged in the learning process, so that it sets goals, which tends to make users more motivated and willing to progress faster on the instrument.
He brings new music every week, of practically all styles and for all levels.
Other apps to learn to play the guitar
Besides these, other very good apps, with lessons, tutorials and many other materials for those who are learning to play the guitar are:
- Guitar course for beginners;
- Yousician – Play guitar;
- Guitar Pro;
To learn some theory
And, if you want to know a little more about music theory as well, there are two very good sites where you can learn, in a simple way and with very dynamic material. are the websites musicaltheoryemfoco.com and the descomplicandoamusica.com.
And, in case you are wondering “why study music theory?”, here are 5 reasons why it is important to have at least the basics of this knowledge:
- be more independent, that is, being able to play a song without depending so much on finding a number, and even to be able to modulate the tone without great difficulties. For example, if you're going to play a song, but you can't sing it in the original key, theoretical knowledge will help a lot when changing that key;
- Improve communication with other musicians, which can help a lot if the plan is to touch bands/groups;
- Improves performance when improvising, after all, knowing the theoretical part and the scales well, it becomes much easier to hit what note or chord to play at a time that needs to do spontaneous, that is, outside the plans;
- Knowing more about music theory will make composing easier your own music;
- Finally, it will make it easier if you want learn other instruments, like keyboard.
