Sometimes the best way to learn about music is by going back to the start. Although recent decades have seen some amazing guitar riffs you want to learn, a number of songs from the golden era of music can also enhance your playing.

Here are some of the must learn vintage guitar tracks you need to add to your repertoire.

Cat Stevens – The First Cut is the Deepest

When you are learning to play the guitar, you don’t want to spend all of your time just playing three different songs. But finding enough songs when you don’t know more than a few chords can be tough.

To help you out and to add a bit more variety to your playlist, here are 10 great tracks you can play even as a novice.

1. Elvis Presley – Hound Dog

Scales make creating guitar solos a lot easier and if you understand the main scale patterns, you can better understand which chords go well together and create a cool sound.

The major pentatonic scale isn’t necessarily the favourite scale to learn among guitarists, but it nonetheless adds much more depth to your guitar playing.

If you’ve not yet looked at the ma...

Guitar theory isn’t the most enjoyable part of playing the guitar, but if you want to enhance your skills and take your playing to the next level, you need to learn the basics. 

Guitar modes can seem especially tricky, and in truth, they are quite a tough concept to understand. But like with all guitar techniques and theory parts, with some practice you’ll master this...

If you’d have to pick something fundamental to the western harmony in music, it would be the major scale. 

You most likely even know it already! If you’ve ever heard the famous Sound of Music song, then you’ve been introduced to the major scale. If you aren’t familiar with the tune, then you can listen to it while you read the rest of the post. 

One of the most fun things about playing the guitar is the amount of different techniques to try. You can try picking, strumming and even bending to create amazing sounds! 

Among the most fun techniques is the sliding technique. This technique creates a unique and cool sound, but you need to practise quite a bit in order to master it. 

To help you out, here are som...