Tips To Learning To Play The Guitar

By James Mason


Learning to play the guitar is easy even if you have no musical experience what so ever. It is possible to find free guitar lessons. The first steps to learning how to play the guitar are actually quite simple.

There are many different types of methods used in lessons and you may have success with particular types of methods. It may take some time to determine which lessons and methods are most effective. Once you do you need to focus on guitar playing technique and practicing. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect and you should be able to play each lesson well before moving to the next lesson.

The first lesson to learn to play the guitar will require a six-string guitar, guitar pick, a chair and a lot of patience. You will learn in detail the parts of the guitar the names of open strings, how to tune the guitar, how to hold and use the pick, learn to play a chromatic scale and how to play the following chords, D major, C major and G major.

No matter the type of guitar you are using they all have the same parts and you should become familiar with the parts of the guitar. Also before you can actually play the guitar you do need to learn how to tune it. If you are not confident about your tuning ability you can use a guitar tuner that will tell you if the note is to flat or sharp.

Being able to play a chromatic scale is important, as this will allow you to play every note in the scale including all the sharps and flats. A chromatic scale includes all of the steps between in an octave. You will also learn to play a few simple chords in the beginning, C major, D major and G major. With these three chords it is possible to play simple songs.




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