Learn To Play Guitar – First Things First
Before learning to play guitar, you first need a guitar
If you don’t have a guitar yet, I suggest..
- Borrow one from a friend or neighbor.
- Find a used one at a yard sale or pawn shop.
- Don’t spend more than a few hundred dollars
(just in case you find out playing guitar is too difficult).
Most people who are smaller in stature or just starting out will find that a 3/4 size acoustic guitar is more comfortable and easier to play. Additionally, an electric guitar requires an amplifier.
The Most Important Thing To Learn Is Tuning A Guitar
You may not know this but, for thousands of years, guitars were tuned to personal preference.
When playing with other instruments, guitars (like all other musical instruments) need to be tuned to piano standards…
The piano is considered the gold standard because it is hard-tuned by piano technicians.
The guitar-learning method I’ll be sharing requires that your guitar be properly tuned. If you don’t know how to tune your guitar, you can ask a friend for help or use the online link I have for “Fender’s (free) Guitar Tuning” app.
If you have access to a music store that sells guitars, you may find an associate who can tune your guitar and recommend a tuning app.
Learning To Play Guitar The Fast Professional Way
Obstacles to Learning Guitar Before the Internet…
Professional guitar players never shared their knowledge. There was no Internet, no computers, and YouTube didn’t exist. Music teachers had little experience with guitars and didn’t approve of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Here are a few qualities that helped them succeed…
Most guitar players never learn to read music.
They won’t sit for hours learning one chord at a time.
They like to improvise while playing and…
They really wanted to learn to play guitar
Playing Guitar is Much More Than Strumming Chords
When I was first learning guitar, the only people who could teach me a few chords were adults who played country music, and they rarely knew more than six chords. Luckily, most music at the time consisted of three-chord songs.
Learning guitar by mindlessly strumming chords can quickly become boring and frustrating, causing most people to give up, hang their guitar on the wall, and never learn to play.
