Monday, June 16, 2008

Play Guitar

By P R jones

Playing a guitar for extended periods of time is really stressful for your back if you don't have good posture. Keeping the following key points in mind should help you maintain a good posture and hold your guitar correctly. When you hold your guitar, the back of the instrument should rest against your abdomen. For people who use the right hand for playing guitar, the neck of the guitar will point to their left. The guitar body should rest on your right thigh. Your left hand should go around the guitar's neck while your right arm goes around the body so your hand is near the strings. If it doesn't feel right, try to shift your body around until you feel comfortable and relaxed.

If you are right handed, you will use your left hand to press the strings and construct chords while playing the guitar. Your left hand fingers are bent and pressed down on the strings and fret board.

The back of the neck of the guitar is curved in order for your hands to fit the around it comfortably. Your thumb bends over the top of the neck and this is a universal thumb position used when constructing chords.Even though the technique is used more often when playing guitar scales, many guitar players find it useful to press their thumb into the back of the guitar neck. The most important thing is to find out which position is easier and more comfortable for you.

Strum the strings with your right hand to make sounds. Position your right arm over the body of the guitar. Your right bicep should rest on the top of the guitar. Position your right hand in front of the guitar's sound hole. When playing guitar, the sound comes out of the sound hole.

Picks are commonly used when playing guitar. Hold the pick between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. Then, pull the pick across the guitar strings. This is similar to plucking the strings with your fingers, but you will want to use a bit more pressure.

If you are left handed that's not a problem if you want to play your acoustic guitar. You have two ways for playing guitar. The first way is to get a right-handed guitar restrung so that the strings are in reverse order. You other option is purchasing a left-handed guitar.

While playing guitar, maintaining proper body position as well as holding the guitar correctly while playing will enable you to play for longer durations as well as to to produce right sound. Don't be tempted to slump into what you think is a cool-looking position, you'll end up feeling tired too soon and look ridiculous as well.

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