Beginners Guitar Playing Guide

*Acoustic vs electric guitar- Choose which type of guitar you want to learn. Once you have chosen, buy a budget friendly guitar. 

*Buy Strap and Guitar Picks- Strap is needed if you want to play guitar by standing. Guitar pics are needed to play the guitar strings and the chords.

Note: If you are a beginner, you must buy a thinner guitar pick. This is because most of the beginners first learn strumming techniques which in turn requires thinner guitar picks.

 

*Tune the guitar- Take help from the seller or from your experienced friend in tuning of the guitar. If you are playing a guitar for the first time, it is important to tune in the guitar. 

On the internet you can find a lot of guitar tuning guides. May be I can post a new article on how to tune a guitar as a beginner.

* Download a Tuning app- Tuning apps can make your journey much better. So you can download gStrings app for android and Guitar Tuna app to learn fine tuning of the guitar. There is another app for the same and its name is metronome. 

With the help of these tuner apps, you can tune any musical instrument and your voice.

* Get familiar with the Frets and the Strings- There are 6 strings in a guitar. From top to bottom is 6, 5,4,3,2 and 1. The top most is the 6th string and the bottom most is the 1st string. 

The string names are E A D G B E. You can remember this like Eddy Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddy.

Similarly the square or rectangular division on the guitar body are called frets. The one closest to your face is the first fret and so on. 

* Learn  to Read Tablature/ Tab chart

6e__X

5A__0

4D__1

3G__2

2B__0

1E__X

Here X means do not play the string, 0 means play that string open and do not hold the fret. The alphabets are the string names and the numbers on the right are the fret numbers.

* Find and Learn Tabs for your fav songs- There are many sites that provide free tabs for any song. Practice them daily to get better at guitar.

* Learn Scales

1. Practice a Pentatonic scale. 

2. Practice the pentatonic scale until you get better and better.

3. Then practice an A minor scale at 5th position. It means that you have to treat the 5th fret as the 1st fret.

4. Practice Shape Scales- This is to make you better in changing the strings so that later you can play the different strings without even looking at them.

5. Practice String Skipping Scales- This will make you better at playing, strumming the guitar cords without even looking at the guitar.

6. Learn and Practice more scales- Search on the internet for more scales. Getting better at playing different scales will help in playing different types of songs. You can even make one if you have a grip on playing different scales. That is it. 

Reference:

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