If You are The Owner Of a Guitar, Learn To Play It Today! Read These Tips

Are you among the many people who have a guitar hidden in their home that they never use? Do you want to learn to play guitar? If you have a guitar, learn to play it. Here are some steps that you can follow.

1. If you don’t have a guitar already then you’ll need to consider buying one or even borrowing one. You can find a good acoustic guitar that will cost you from $75 to $200.

If you want a more advanced model it will cost you from $250 and up. There are many great brands of acoustic guitars and another tip for you is to go to your local music store and pick a guitar that fits your preferences as well as your pocketbook.

2. Learn to play the basic or so called ‘open chords’ like C, G, A and D. This is the first step when learning guitar. The moment you have these open chords you will be capable to play hundreds of different songs. So, how can I learn the basics, you may ask? There are several options like for instance

- buy a guitar course book for the beginner’s level
- get a teacher
- find a guitar e-learning beginner program

3. Learn to read tablature.

Guitar tablature is an image of the guitar neck marked with dots where you are supposed to place your fingers to play a certain chord.As soon as the song needs to change the chord, a new tab with the new chord is displayed. Go to the internet and search for guitar tablature and you will find tablature for thousands of songs many of them for free.

4. Learn to play barre chords is the next step. Barre chords are chord “shapes” that can be moved up and down along the neck of the guitar. To learn barre chords you can

- buy a guitar book with these chords
- practice these shapes and move them repeatedly up and down the neck of your guitar
- buy printed guitar song books with tabs or download them from the internet

In many cases, Guitar tabs will also include a barre chord diagram.

5. “Practice Makes Perfect” is an old saying. I say “What kind of practice?” If you have a guitar, learn to play it, but if you practice wrong playing you will become perfect in playing wrong, and that is not what you want. Especially as a beginner, You’ll need to do give much time and patience to practicing.

Do it the right way the very first time you play it and do not get into a habit of practicing mistakes because then it will take you much longer than necessary to learn it.

A well known musician once said that fast progress depends on slow practice. Don’t just play, think before you play. Use a good recording as a frame of reference, and then you know what to compare your progress with.

6. Learn how to finger pick. This is a very widely used technique in very many songs and pieces for guitar and thus necessary to master if you want so you want to learn guitar playing. Mastering the right movements of your fingers takes time but with the method of practicing I described above you will play almost automatically in amazingly short amount of time.

If you, after reading this are still interested and you have a guitar, learn to play it. If you don’t have why don’t you buy one? learning guitar is enjoyable and fun.

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