How To Play Guitar: Lesson 6

Hey, RockStar! We provide a series on how to play guitar for beginners. This is a series of free guitar lessons for beginners aimed at all ages, so whether you’re a new guitar-slinging whippersnapper or you’re simply a fan of playing some good ol’ rock guitar, you too can be a RockStar on stage − or in studio − someday.

Here's a part of one of the latest articles of the series:

"Guitar chords are simply more than one string (or musical note) played at the same time.  There are only 12 musical notes in the Musical Alphabet which most instruments are tuned to."

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How To Play Guitar: Lesson 5

Hey, are you the RockStar the world has been waiting for? Don't look further and go through one of the best guitar lessons. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Whenever you pick up your guitar, the first thing you should always do is bust out your tuner and check that it is in tune."


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How To Play Guitar: Lesson 4

Playing guitar is fundamentally about teaching your fingers to do weird things they aren't used to doing. There are so many ways to learn how to play a guitar perfectly.

Yesterday, I was searching for an arical that can help me learn how to play a guitar perfectly and I went through an amazing article. Here is a part of the article:

"Playing guitar chords is easy: you simply hit multiple strings in a single strum and let all the notes ring out together. What’s more, as a guitarist, you only need to know about 10 basic chords to be able to play thousands of different guitar songs."

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How To Play Guitar: Lesson 3

Do you want to learn

Learning to play guitar is more approachable than many other instruments. Once you get the right direction, you can learn how to get started teaching yourself to play a guitar.

Few days ago, I was searching for some simple tips about playing guitar and I went through an article. Here is an extract of the artical:

"Many beginner guitarists mistakenly believe that to start learning real guitar songs, you need to know how to read sheet music. This is totally untrue. In fact, a surprising number of legendary guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Slash never learnt to read sheet music at all. They simply played by ear, learnt by experience, and got god-like from practice. And you can, too."

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How To Play Guitar: Lesson 2

Welcome to today’s lesson, RockStars! These free guitar lessons are here to help you quickly learn how to play guitar as a beginner, and serve to boost your understanding of what you have learnt in the RockStar Guitar Daily Lesson Guide for the Beginner Guitarist.

We are going to go over the basics step on how to tune a guitar. Tuning is an essential skill that is easy to master, especially if you use an electronic tuner – which we highly recommend.

You can even turn your smartphone or tablet into a tuner simply by downloading a guitar tuning app. If you own an Android, check out the guitar tuner apps on the Play Store. Yup, it’s that easy. Want to learn more? Click here.

How To Play Guitar: Lesson 1

Learining how to play guitar could really be a fun. Before learning how to play guitar, you have to know how your guitar works. Why? Well, you wouldn’t learn to drive a car without first knowing what a ‘steering wheel’ is, would you? So let’s get started with this lesson!

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How To Play Guitar For Beginners - Lesson 3

Ok so you're just starting out and you're wondering how to make that guitar sound good. Well it's not as hard or as daunting of a task as you might think. Please check out some of the previous lessons if you're just starting out. They will cover things like the 1234 exercise that is perfect for getting your fingers acclimated to playing and It will show you some awesome simple guitar chords that you can start to play right away. You can find the lesson here if you want to review: http://rockstarguitarlv.com/chord-shapes-for-guitar-beginners/

So in some of our previous lessons we covered how to play E and A chords. If you recall, we went over how to play both the major and minor versions of these chords. We'll get into what major and minor actually mean later on in some music theory lessons but for now just memorizing the names will be fine. You'll notice that major chords sound brighter, warmer, and happier where as minor chords tend to sound darker, and sadder. You can review the chords with the diagrams below.

               

Often times there is some confusion as to what these diagrams mean with new students. Well just to make sure these don't look like hieroglyphs let me explain real quick. Each vertical line represents a string, the left string is the low E string and the right string is the high E string. So from left to right the strings are E A D G B E or lowest string on the left highest on the right. Now each horizontal line is a fret and these chords are played on the first and second frets of the guitar. Hopefully that helps you out for any of you that may have been lost. Here are the minor chords for quick review.

                    

Now the way I would recommend practicing these chords is in pairs. In other words, practice changing from E major to A major and get that change down. Then practice changing from E minor to A minor, and get that change down. Today we will learn a new chord and a new pair. The next chord we will learn is the C chord.

I want you to pair this chord with A minor. The reason is that the change is very simple. You'll notice that all you have to do is move your third finger from the second fret on the third string if you're playing A minor to the third fret on the fifth string. Another way to look at is that when playing between Am and C your first and second fingers stay in the same spot and only your third finger is moving. Now you have three chord pairs to practice, hope this help and I'll see you next time. ROCK ON! 

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