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- Understanding how to play the guitar ultimately comes down to two things: using your left hand correctly and using your right hand correctly. Chords = Left hand Strumming = Right hand
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- Choosing The Right Guitar. First things first, we need to get you a guitar. Your learning experience is largely influenced by the guitar you choose, which should be comfortable and easy to play.
- Essential Equipment For Beginners. With your guitar in hand, the next step is to assemble the essential equipment that will enhance your playing experience.
- Understanding Guitar Anatomy. Next up, we have a quick lesson on the different parts of the guitar. Understanding the anatomy of your instrument is a key step towards becoming a proficient guitarist.
- Tuning Your Guitar. There’s nothing worse than an out-of-tune instrument. Period. For an enjoyable playing experience for yourself (and your audience), ensuring your guitar is well-tuned is vital.
- Start With The Basics Of Playing Guitar. The first steps are always the most difficult. But you have to learn to crawl before you can walk -- building up strength and confidence before you can get going.
- Find The Best Guitar For You. Whether you’re learning to play an acoustic or electric guitar, or decide that you want to learn how to play bass, finding the right instrument is essential.
- Create An Ideal Learning Environment. One of the first steps on your path to playing guitar is to set up an environment that makes you want to practice.
- Build Skills By Learning Songs. Learning to play notes, scales and chords are certainly fundamentals of your musical education. But the best way to learn guitar is to put those techniques into practice while learning a new song.
- Simon Fellows
- Buy the right guitar. You can learn to play on any guitar. After all, many of the guitar gods of the ’60s and ’70s learned to play on atrocious instruments, simply because that’s all that was available to them.
- Going acoustic? Buy the right size. Acoustic guitars come in a variety of shapes and sizes, labelled with a bewildering number of names. In the classical guitar world, nylon-strung guitars made for children and smaller framed adults look and play just like scaled down versions of a full-size guitar.
- Learn to keep it in tune. Yep, it was in tune when you bought it, but now listen to it. Sadly, even the best guitars don’t stay in tune very long because the vast majority are made of wood, which is very susceptible to changes in temperature and humidity.
- Learn the right way to pick. If you’ve never used a guitar pick, aka plectrum, before, then you’re probably wondering how best to hold it. Grip your pick firmly, but not too tightly, between the finger and thumb of your picking hand, which will be the right hand for many of us.
Sep 26, 2022 · Lesson 1: Tuning up. Lesson 2: Holding your guitar. Lesson 3: Your first chords. Lesson 4: Faster chord changes. Lesson 5: Strumming. Lesson 6: Lead guitar.
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