How To Play The Guitar - A Step By Step Approach To How To Play The Guitar
Radiohead has a song entitled "Anybody Can Play Guitar," and in fact this is true. You or anybody else can most likely pick up a few chords and scales, and with a little discipline you'll be playing songs and jamming with friends. To really understand guitar, however, takes commitment. This is an intro for beginner guitarists.
Make no mistake: playing guitar can be painful at first. Ten and a half years ago when I started playing, the tips of my fingers got so wore out it drew blood. Most guitarists report the same thing. Soreness is an issue too. You have to strengthen the muscles in your hands; until you do, they'll ache.
Practicing as often as possible will get calluses on your fingers and a pump on your hand muscles. When you get over this hump, you'll already be decent at navigating the fretboard; you may already know or have written some songs. I'm not particularly gifted, but I could play within six weeks. Many learn even faster.
During these weeks, master tuning your guitar and the strings. Learn the most useful scales shapes. Start with the pentatonic, then the major and scales. You'll be getting those muscles and calluses while learning how the notes on the fretboard relate. You'll see the guitar in a new way, and you'll get the most useful music theory.
Alongside these scales, also learn the chords. You should know the open chords, and the major, minor and dominant seventh shapes all over the fretboard. Get to where you can change chords smoothly. I was frustrated with all that when I started, but push through and you'll have it down in two or three weeks, tops.
When you get to this point, learn a few songs. You will be able to easily play a twelve-bar blues pattern; there are a million songs in this vein. Learn the chord changes to your favorite songs, and use either your ear or transcriptions to learn all the notes your favorite guitarists are playing on them.
This will teach you the basics of how songs are built and written using the songs most important to you. Guitars aren't playthings: they are machines used to express emotion and artistry. Go from playing your favorite songs composed by strangers to trying your hand at writing something these and other strangers might love too.
Mastering guitar is a magical discipline. You subdue your pain, willing your flesh to change. You learn shapes and series of notes to perform other people's songs. With this you gain the power to speak the only universal language: music. Mystery lies this way, and as soon as you set off, you're almost there. - 18758
Make no mistake: playing guitar can be painful at first. Ten and a half years ago when I started playing, the tips of my fingers got so wore out it drew blood. Most guitarists report the same thing. Soreness is an issue too. You have to strengthen the muscles in your hands; until you do, they'll ache.
Practicing as often as possible will get calluses on your fingers and a pump on your hand muscles. When you get over this hump, you'll already be decent at navigating the fretboard; you may already know or have written some songs. I'm not particularly gifted, but I could play within six weeks. Many learn even faster.
During these weeks, master tuning your guitar and the strings. Learn the most useful scales shapes. Start with the pentatonic, then the major and scales. You'll be getting those muscles and calluses while learning how the notes on the fretboard relate. You'll see the guitar in a new way, and you'll get the most useful music theory.
Alongside these scales, also learn the chords. You should know the open chords, and the major, minor and dominant seventh shapes all over the fretboard. Get to where you can change chords smoothly. I was frustrated with all that when I started, but push through and you'll have it down in two or three weeks, tops.
When you get to this point, learn a few songs. You will be able to easily play a twelve-bar blues pattern; there are a million songs in this vein. Learn the chord changes to your favorite songs, and use either your ear or transcriptions to learn all the notes your favorite guitarists are playing on them.
This will teach you the basics of how songs are built and written using the songs most important to you. Guitars aren't playthings: they are machines used to express emotion and artistry. Go from playing your favorite songs composed by strangers to trying your hand at writing something these and other strangers might love too.
Mastering guitar is a magical discipline. You subdue your pain, willing your flesh to change. You learn shapes and series of notes to perform other people's songs. With this you gain the power to speak the only universal language: music. Mystery lies this way, and as soon as you set off, you're almost there. - 18758
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