If you are determined to learn how to play the guitar, and it is too late to go to music school and there is no time to study at a music school, you may well master this art at home. All you need is desire and a good tool.
It is necessary
patience, perseverance, inspiration
Instructions
Step 1
First, choose a guitar. Learning to play, of course, will be easier on an acoustic guitar: the strings and frets on it are slightly farther apart than on an electric guitar. Although the strings are softer on an electric guitar.
Step 2
When choosing an instrument, be guided by your own preferences: the shape, size of the soundboard and the color of the guitar can be anything, but the guitar should be comfortable to hold in your hands. When playing the guitar, its weight is transferred to the right knee, the deck is held on top with the right hand. In this case, the left hand should be completely free. It is preferable, of course, to take a classical guitar or a western.
Step 3
The main thing to pay attention to, besides convenience, is the height of the strings above the neck. The higher the strings are above the fretboard, the more difficult it will be to play and hold chords.
Also, run your fingers around the edges of the fretboard - the iron pads should not protrude from the fretboard on the sides, or you could seriously injure your fingers while playing the guitar.
Step 4
And, of course, the guitar has to build. Ask a friend who can play guitar to go shopping with you and tune and play guitar. The sound of the played chords should be clear and true.
Step 5
So, the guitar is selected. The first thing you should learn to do is tune your guitar. Especially new strings have a tendency to stretch quickly when played, and the instrument gets frustrated as a result. You can tune your guitar using a tuning fork, electric or online tuner, via the Internet.
You need to check the tuning of the guitar before each lesson, so as not to spoil your hearing: as you know, it is impossible to restore it.
Step 6
Now the hard work lies ahead - developing the fingers to match the chords. To do this, place your index finger on the first fret of the sixth string next to the nut, hold down the string and make a sound with your right thumb. Without removing the index finger, put the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the 6th string, repeat the exercise, then sequentially clamp the 6th string with the ring finger at the 3rd fret and with the little finger at the 4th fret.
We remove our fingers from the strings, while extracting a sound, in the reverse order: from the little finger to the middle one.
Step 7
Fingers that do not know the strings will hurt a lot at first and will not obey, but do not lose persistence. As soon as the left hand is very tired, rest for a while, then start the lesson again.
All great guitarists do this exercise to keep your hands on dexterity.
Step 8
You can choose scales on your guitar and practice on them: the sound you produce will become more interesting and will allow you to continue learning. Or ask musician friends to show you simple brute-force tunes. It is by brute-force that you quickly develop your fingers.
Step 9
Remember that the sound is produced as follows: the thumb of the right hand "works" with the sixth and fifth strings. The index finger is with the fourth string. The middle one - from the third, the unnamed - from the second and the little finger - from the first.
Step 10
After your fingers are more or less easy to place on the desired string, move on to the chords. For the first time, it is enough to learn 10 chords in order to pick up the most simple melodies.
Step 11
Move to musical notation when you begin to understand a little about the chords and are ready for it. Many beginners are so frightened by the notes that the inspiration for learning fades away, the guitar is abandoned immediately and is not picked up for years.
Step 12
Try to practice for at least two hours a day in the first month, and then, when your fingers become stiff, you can increase the class time to 4 hours a day. The more often and longer you pick up the guitar, the faster you will learn to play it.
Play and you will succeed!
