This post is for anyone who has wanted to learn guitar, but hasn’t been able to get it done. I would like to start off by saying, I am in no way an expert, but I have taught myself guitar and am pretty decent to good at it. So here are 4 steps to learning guitar.
1. First off you need a guitar. I feel like this should be fairly obvious, but go find a guitar. Mooch a friends, siblings, random old guy off the street, or just break down and buy one. [Disclaimer: Let’s be clear. I do not actually want you to go steal one. So don’t.]
2. Learning to play is really frustrating when you cannot see improvement or do anything with you new fangled skills, so you need to find a song that you want to learn to play. As a hint, it’s a really good idea to pick a really easy song with few chords and a simple strumming pattern. [I would consider the basic/easy chords to be G, C, D, and Em]
3. Next you are going to need to look up the fingering [where your fingers go on the guitar] for the chords in the song you picked. You can just google the chord or here is a link to some of the basic chords displayed: http://www.all-guitar-chords.com
4. Now all you need to do is keep trying to play the chords with the song until you get faster and faster at switching between them. When you want to play new chords something else, go pick another song and any time there are new chords, go look them up!
Good Luck! And I wish you all the best with your guitar endeavors.
*If you are looking for songs, a GREAT website where I find most of my chords is http://www.ultimate-guitar.com
*If you are having trouble with strumming patterns or the basic concepts of how to play guitar, check YouTube. There are many videos showing how to play songs, different strumming patterns, etc.
Until next time.
Laura
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