What You Need To Know To Learn To Play The Guitar Quickly
If you want to learn to play the guitar quickly, you need to build a solid foundation. I'm serious, it may seem tedious, but this is truly the fastest way to learn to play the guitar. The first thing you must learn is guitar tuning. If you try to learn to play with your guitar not in tune, you will either never be able to get the right sound, or you will totally train your ear to not recognize the right sound.
Take a trip to the music store and grab a tuner, and while you're there, try and get your hands on a chart that shows all the guitar notes, and if you can get hold of one, get a chart that shows as many of the different chord positions as you can find. Tune your guitar, and then start with learning all the notes on the guitar, all the way up.
Once you learn the notes all the way up the neck, you can start practicing your chord positions. I know you've already skipped ahead to this part, but now you can devote some more time to it. Four easy chords to play are G, D, A and A7. For all illustrations here, and most tablature you will find, your fingers are numbered thus, index finger is 1, middle finger is 2, ring finger is 3 and baby finger is 4. So now, to play the G chord, simply place finger 3 on the top string in the third fret, finger 2 on the next string down in the second fret, and finger 4 on the bottom string in the third fret. Now holding pressure on those strings, strum the guitar and you're playing G.
D chord is relatively simple, place your second finger on the bottom string, your third finger on the next string up, third fret, and your first finger on the G string, your second and first fingers play second fret. Start strumming at the D string, which is the first string above your top finger.
The A chord is extremely simple, the bottom string is played open, this means no fingers on it, and the next three strings up are all played in the second fret. It is best to use this order for your fingers. Starting with the bottom, which in this case is the second string from the bottom, place your fingers in this order, 3, 1 and 2. That is the A chord. Now the reason I recommend that order, is that if you lift off finger number 1 you're now playing A7.
Now practice strumming these chords, and when you are familiar with them, you can switch back and forth between them. A good thing at this point, is to consider either purchasing, downloading or borrowing a Chord chart. Learn all the chords you can. The more chords you learn the more flexibility you will have.
Now time to add another element to your learning. Remember when you memorized all those notes on the guitar. Well now you get to use them for something. Pick a note, and then try and sing that note. Move around and use different notes, and don't worry it will get easier with practice. Alternate between the notes/singing and the chords.
Now if you want to be really good, try the notes and singing in the opposite order. That's right, sing the note first, and then find and pick the correct one on your guitar. Now, if you can master doing this, to the point where you can sing the note, and then almost immediately pick the right note on the guitar. If you're not playing along with some of your music, you better start. You wanted to learn to play the guitar quickly, and you just did. - 18762
Take a trip to the music store and grab a tuner, and while you're there, try and get your hands on a chart that shows all the guitar notes, and if you can get hold of one, get a chart that shows as many of the different chord positions as you can find. Tune your guitar, and then start with learning all the notes on the guitar, all the way up.
Once you learn the notes all the way up the neck, you can start practicing your chord positions. I know you've already skipped ahead to this part, but now you can devote some more time to it. Four easy chords to play are G, D, A and A7. For all illustrations here, and most tablature you will find, your fingers are numbered thus, index finger is 1, middle finger is 2, ring finger is 3 and baby finger is 4. So now, to play the G chord, simply place finger 3 on the top string in the third fret, finger 2 on the next string down in the second fret, and finger 4 on the bottom string in the third fret. Now holding pressure on those strings, strum the guitar and you're playing G.
D chord is relatively simple, place your second finger on the bottom string, your third finger on the next string up, third fret, and your first finger on the G string, your second and first fingers play second fret. Start strumming at the D string, which is the first string above your top finger.
The A chord is extremely simple, the bottom string is played open, this means no fingers on it, and the next three strings up are all played in the second fret. It is best to use this order for your fingers. Starting with the bottom, which in this case is the second string from the bottom, place your fingers in this order, 3, 1 and 2. That is the A chord. Now the reason I recommend that order, is that if you lift off finger number 1 you're now playing A7.
Now practice strumming these chords, and when you are familiar with them, you can switch back and forth between them. A good thing at this point, is to consider either purchasing, downloading or borrowing a Chord chart. Learn all the chords you can. The more chords you learn the more flexibility you will have.
Now time to add another element to your learning. Remember when you memorized all those notes on the guitar. Well now you get to use them for something. Pick a note, and then try and sing that note. Move around and use different notes, and don't worry it will get easier with practice. Alternate between the notes/singing and the chords.
Now if you want to be really good, try the notes and singing in the opposite order. That's right, sing the note first, and then find and pick the correct one on your guitar. Now, if you can master doing this, to the point where you can sing the note, and then almost immediately pick the right note on the guitar. If you're not playing along with some of your music, you better start. You wanted to learn to play the guitar quickly, and you just did. - 18762
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