How to choose a guitar
Before learning how to play the guitar, you need to find a suitable tool. But visiting the store, aspiring musician unwittingly begins to get lost in all range and variety of models. Therefore, when choosing a guitar you need to adhere to certain actions.
Initially, you should pay attention to the strings, which are of iron and nylon. To training better fit nylon as iron strings will be cut unaccustomed fingers.
Next you should inspect the guitar visually for integrity of the case, absence dents or cracks. The upper and lower deki should be made from a single sheet of plywood, and all joints well taped. You must ask the seller about the material of the tool. Better to buy a guitar made of pine.
The neck needs to be perfectly smooth, without distortion, otherwise the beginner will be able to properly tune the instrument. Better to give preference to a guitar with a neck that bolted, not glued. This will allow through bolting to change the distance between the fretboard and strings and a little to align it in the case of curvature.
Important in the guitar sound is a state-driven push-rod, because with their help it is configured. They should be placed tightly, without gaps, good turn and did not creak. It remains to check the acoustics and the sound of the instrument. Overall, the strings have "sound" and not to "rattle". Considering all the features, it is better to entrust the choice of a guitar to a professional to have the opportunity to purchase a quality instrument.
How to learn to play the guitar
To play the guitar, in addition to acquired skills necessary musical ear. If not, learn the game will be difficult. The basic steps needed when teaching is the reading of tablature, learning the building of chords possible ways to run comps, as well as the completion of practical exercises. Also important is the choice of a suitable way of learning to play the guitar at home.
One of them is the printed self-study guides – free manual, which contains the basic elementary lessons. They described in detail the structure of the guitar, frets, notes, chords, etc. The potential student decides itself when to engage, however, this method is more suitable for the patient, plodding people. If a person has no self-discipline, do not engage in self-help books, as this can last forever.
Video tutorials on the Internet – free option. Guitarist chooses the lessons and deals on them. However, an inexperienced user unknowingly may miss useful information or in a hurry to rush from one class to another. There's also the possibility of constant distractions for other videos that would interfere with learning.
The best option, providing an individual approach as private tutor. Using this method, it is likely to get a quick result, to engage at a convenient time and not be distracted by household stuff. But not everyone can afford to pay for tutor lessons.
Popular lately become a paid video courses that are prepared by teachers, and include only the necessary information. The lessons are designed from simple to complex", it follows the sequence of learning. You just need to insert the disc and repeat after the teacher the necessary chords and fingerings, and then to consolidate the learned. The lesson can be viewed as many times as it takes to learn the material. The cost of these lessons is much cheaper than a tutor, but the result is not worse.
Selecting the suitable training method and showing perseverance, patience and dedication, it is possible for a short period of time to learn the basic fundamentals of playing the guitar, and then have time to Polish the knowledge.
How to play the chords
Learning to play guitar starts with the main stage – the study of chords. Each chord is a combination of several notes that are marked with letters of the Latin alphabet from A to G, making them easy to remember: the first note "a" (letter A), and the last "g" (the G).
Chords are different in sound character due to the minor and the major scale. Major means a fun, happy, minor – sad, quiet. In the name of a minor chord is always a letter "m", while in the major all remains without changes. Also can't do music without signs of alteration – the sharp (#) and flats (b) that raise or lower the chord of a semitone, respectively. For example, G#m indicates the note "g sharp" in the minor tune.
To learn the chords, you will need fingerings is a diagram of the chord on the guitar fretboard, horizontally, the specified strings, and vertically the numbers indicate frets. Each diagram corresponds to one chord. It points allocated places on the fretboard where you need to press the strings to obtain a particular chord.
For convenience and simplicity can be found in the online Songbook, which presents a large number of chords with located on them with words. In this case you will need fingerings. Using that scheme you need to put your fingers on the required frets and once to play the chord.
Better to practice on a simple chords, such as Em (e minor), Am (La minor), With (up to), as most of the others require knowledge of a special technique "Barre", where one finger should hold down several strings one fret at a time. A large "Barre" the strings are clamped all at once, but this would require long training.
There are many ways of playing the guitar, but the most common is overkill when guitarist alternately pluck the strings and parses the chord on sounds and the fight is a chord with one blow on the strings. In the game combat has the following designations:
1) P - kick from the top string to the bottom;
2) V - strike from the bottom strings to the top;
3) + - thumb to mute the strings;
4) x is the same hand.
A beginner guitarist to get a clean sound when you play a battle, it is better to make a blow with fingertips, not entire hand. If the game turns out simple chord melody, not just a set of chords, you can start learning songs in the future good friends good music.
