Monday, May 25, 2009

Teach Yourself How To Play The Guitar

By Chase Coals

No matter what people tell you, learning how to play the guitar is not that hard. Well,At least the idea part of it is no to difficult. The real difficult part of playing the guitar is learning finger memory, and gaining finger speed and strength.

How do you go about doing that? Practice! lots and lots of practice. There is no secret. The key is getting you hands on a guitar and start using it. Oh and pick out kick ass Jimi Hendrix guitar straps.

Choose some drills for the different skills that you will need. This is is critical. The reason is because you need to work on finger strength and speed. Playing the guitar will become much easier after your have developed your finger memory.

Find some free scale tabs online and begin to practice doing them for a half hour each day. You will also need to work up your ability to bar chord. This is where you press down all the string with your point finger and while forming the chord with your others. It is very hard at first as you have to build up tolerance, and conditioning.

Learning to play the guitar requires sacrifice. One of the things you will have to sacrifice is the ends of your fingers. It will take some time for you to develop calluses at the tips so that it no longer hurts to play for more than five minutes. The good news is the calusses make a harder surface and you end up with a better sound from the strings since they a more firmly pinched.

Next on the list of to do's is to get a little knowledge of music theory. If you devote a couple hours a week, it will not take you very long to discover how to play along with any song if you know the key it is in. Grab a chord chart and begin memorizing every chord and every note on the guitar.

Theory is a step that often gets skipped when people are learning to play the guitar. They are more interested in learning how to play their favorite songs. Unfortunately this will limit you if you do not educate yourself on how music is formed. Now go shred!

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