Steps to Learn to Play the Guitar

You have finally decided - you have a guitar, with strings and even a pick, you already have everything to take your first steps with the guitar and emulate your favorite guitarists.

Start with the basics, if you start from scratch, the key to playing right away is a list of the first 7 things you have to learn with the guitar. If you get this you will never give up, you’ll surely continue learning and above all you will have a great time, here we go:

Tune The Guitar

The first thing you should do before playing anything is to tune the guitar. All the guitars get a little out of touch with the humidity, because of the heat or taking it from one place to another. Turning it is just in a moment, it costs nothing and you can do it well with a physical tuner or with your mobile phone with some free app ( they are becoming more precise). Standard tuning from the 6th string (the thickest) to the 1st string below (the thinnest) E, A, D, G, B, E.

Change The Strings

If you have a guitar at home without changing the strings for a long time, change it now! We do not want you to catch a disease with the dirt of those strings, your fingers will thank you and the guitar will sound much better. Don’t worry if nothing else is changed immediately, it is normal. Tune, touch, tune, touch and in the end, they will reach a stable point.

Basic Chords

Learn to play the 7 universal basic chords to play millions of songs. Really, you just need to know these chords to play your favorite songs. Once you know placing these chords you will not have any problem with the sustained chords or flats (you just have to move the chord figure a following or previous fret) and for the problem of the nut, take it easy, practice.

Rhythm And Strum

Now we have to give rhythm to those chords. This is a point of the most expensive but does not get overwhelmed, it takes time. The internet tutorials with strum direction arrows help a lot. At the beginning, it simplifies much the strumming, as if you only strum down (down arrow), it is better that you change the chord well that later you will be able to complete the corresponding strumming finger on the 2nd fret of the 5th string, finger on the 2nd fret of the 4th string and finger on the 1st fret of the 3rd string and you already have an MI chord. This is the tablature, to make it very easy for beginners, for most people who do not know how to read music theory. Then we have elements and details of techniques such as bending, linked, vibrato, etc. that with a little practice you will not need to study it because seeing the same thing repeated in so many songs you will have it memorized without realizing it.

Play Songs

If you choose songs that you like from the beginning you will get that as they sound, the closer you are, the more chance that you will be invaded by a sense of pride and a never seen satisfaction that will make you hook on the instrument. This makes you continue to learn and keep moving forward, there is no better way to stay motivated with your favorite songs.

Fifth Chords

An element that unconsciously caused me not to leave the guitar after 2 days by the nut and continue to progress while learning songs were the fifth chords also called power chords. The fifth chords are a very simplified version of the basic chords, you do some cheating because you do not play the complete chord and being very easy to play allows you to keep moving forward and not get frustrated. As almost everything I played was the rock and the great guitar riffs are full of fifth chords, it came perfect.

With these tips, you can start playing your favorite songs from the first moment even if you have no idea of ​​music, a fun way to keep moving forward. In our beginners' course, we put all this into practice for those who start from scratch, with songs and organized in 3 days.

Play now!