Can someone teach me how to play guitar?!
Question: I got a guitar for Xmas and i was wonderin if it would be bad for me to just skip to tabs and try to learn tabs instead of chords first!??
Also does anyone were i could get free online lessons for free?Or can someone just tell me the basics of a guitar to give me a jumpstart!!
Thnx!!
Answers: I got a guitar for Xmas and i was wonderin if it would be bad for me to just skip to tabs and try to learn tabs instead of chords first!??
Also does anyone were i could get free online lessons for free?Or can someone just tell me the basics of a guitar to give me a jumpstart!!
Thnx!!
I'll answer it again, since it is asked again. But I'll give you some basics this time.
Chords. Most songs have only three. The one, the four, and the five. Take the key of A, since it is a simple count up. One is A, two is b, three is c, four is D, five is E. I use my fingers, starting with maybe G on the thumb, then whatever letter I get to on my ring and little are the other two chords. If you want to learn to play chords, for a while practice going between those three in whatever key, in all combos. A to D and back, A to E and back, D to E and back. Then I started playing a hokey rhythm that sounded cool, just to make moving around funner. Go on the net and type in a song you want to learn, then chords. You will get a bunch of listings, with the lyrics of the song, and above the lyric line, a chord. You play that chord at that point of the song. That way you can sing a song you like, while playing chords, and the practice is more fun.
You don't need to learn all keys. Most popular songs are written in A, D, E, G, or C. And lots of those keys use the same chords for four and five that others are using for one chords, so it isn't a huge amount of chords to learn.
Tabs. Well, scales are boring as all get out. But that is what tabs are made from. You can't play notes out of the scale and make them sound right. So when you get to start writing your own stuff, you'll need to know scales. Major is the most common, then minor and blues. When you are playing tabs, use all your fingers of the left hand to finger the fretboard, and pick both up and down with your right. Say the tab has most of the frets as 5,6,7, and 8, with a few to 4 or 9. Use your pointy for all the 4s and 5s, the middle for 6s, and so on. Move your hand back and forth as little as possible.
You can find tabs in the same places you find chords, just type in tabs, or look for them on the site. Tabs are harder to learn than chords, harder to memorize, harder to play and sing at the same time.
To learn the strum pattern of chords, or the timing of tab lines, I sing the line in my head. Then make my right hand move to that rhythm, and it works out. For me anyway.
Did anyone recommend getting an electronic tuner? You'll need one of those, or nothing will sound right.
If you want to play in front of people standing up, then practice standing up. The transition from sitting was a hard one for me initially. I do most all of my practicing standing up, though sometimes now I sit.
Good luck, have fun. Any other specific problems you run into, you can email me and I'll see what I can do to help. Or of course, ask here. Plenty of people will help out.