Do you remember those little magazines to learn to play the guitar? Depending on your age, it will be difficult to remember them, but there was a time when, to learn guitar alone, you needed to go to the newsstand and buy a magazine with figures and tips.

Time passed, YouTube gained space with its video classes 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, tuners 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 perseveranceAfter all, it is something that will require daily practice and may take a while to achieve satisfactory results.

If you want to learn to play the guitar, here you will find some apps that can help a lot during the process.

Cifraclub, one of the classics for learning guitar

One of the first websites 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 different resources 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 anything at all, not even how to read a number, there's no problem, through the application he will have more than 2,000 video lessons showing exactly how to put together the chords, rhythm, beat of songs and, finally, if in the process the guitar ends up going out of tune, the application also has a tuner.

CoachGuitar: how to play guitar, guitar lessons

Another very good app for learning acoustic guitar is “CoachGuitar: how to play guitar, guitar lessons”. This application brings a unique teaching method, using colors as the main tools for memorizing scales.

This is not the ideal application if you want to have theoretical knowledge, it will only provide the practical part, with classes, videos and animations with scales and other important tips for learning to play.

In addition to trying to create fun videos, the app's developers understand that it is, in a certain way, common to get discouraged in the learning process, so it sets goals, which tends to make users more motivated and willing to progress more quickly 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 learning to play the guitar are:

• Guitar course for beginners;
• Yousician – Playing the guitar;
• GuitarPro;

To learn a little theory

And, if you want to know a little more about music theory too, there are two very good websites where you can learn, in a simple way and with very dynamic material. These are the websites theoriamusicalemfoco.com and the descomplicandoamusica.com.

And, if you’re wondering “why study music theory?”, here are 5 reasons why it’s 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 chord, and even being able to modulate the tone without major difficulties. For example, if you are going to play a song, but you cannot sing it in the original tone, theoretical knowledge will help a lot when changing that tone;
• Improve communication with other musicians, which can help a lot if the plan is to play bands/groups;
• Improves performance when improvising, After all, knowing the theoretical part and the scales well, it becomes much easier to hit which note or chord to play at a moment you need to do spontaneous, that is, outside of planning;
• 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.