Imagine being able to really play the guitar.

Learn to play guitar

You just bought your first guitar (oh, emotion!), You've already given him a nickname, and you spend all your free time with him or sleep with it outright as did Jimi Hendrix ... It only remains for you now just learn how to play and to exploit all the capabilities.

To achieve this goal, here are 7 tips to apply now. They are all the good habits to adopt when you want to learn to play the guitar:

1. How to hold a guitar?

You are not insensitive to the voluptuous body of your guitar, all curves and which are not unlike those of a woman. But we must know how to hold and manipulate. Here's how: Sit in a chair or, better yet, on a stool that you can adjust to your height. First thing: do not cross your legs and keep them slightly separated (You can take a pose more relaxed when you are more comfortable).

Assuming you are right handed, place the hollow body of your guitar on your right thigh. Your right arm comes naturally arise on the top of the body. Next, place your left hand on the handle, which should be tilted slightly upward, as in the photo. You can place your right foot on a support to elevate your leg. By following these simple tips, you'll quickly find the most natural and most comfortable to hold your guitar.

2. What stance to take on the guitar neck?

When the guitar starts, one of the first things to do is to avoid taking bad habits. On many guitars, there is a band drawn in the middle of the back of the neck.

It is on this tape that must be your thumb, to ensure both a good grip and good mobility of your fingers on the side of freight. Once you'll be playing like that, you can keep your neck more freely, even if you have large hands, making barred using the thumb, as did Jimi Hendrix.

3. Work one hour per day

Yep, no pain, no nothing, to paraphrase the proverb! To become good, you have that you practice regularly. If you stand at one hour of work per day, you will feel the results come very quickly. In just one or two months, you have already taken level. But we must also pick out appropriate exercise. Hence the following advice.

4. Start simple!

If you try to learn directly Eruption by Van Halen, you'll have setbacks. Learn to master agreements already bases through simple pieces before you start in mastering the greatest rock solos. Whether About the Girl Nirvana Louie Louie by Richard Berry or any other piece you like, their simplicity is also a way to learn the basics on guitar: keep a rhythm .

5. Work songs by ear and even better, sing them!

Not that we should dispense with scores and tablatures. Quite the contrary. Simply, learn to listen to a song. Even if a song you know by heart, you do you're probably not focused on the guitar in particular. Now, your goal: listen to the song you focus on the instrument you are learning. Know when guitarist concerned changes agreed, when he made trips and when he returns with his pick. This information is also listed on your tab:

The move is when your pick goes down. The return is when you scrape up. Play a chord on your guitar and strum the strings making a go, then making a return, you will see that the tone is different. Listening also means taking the time to read the score while listening to the song!

Last council for listening: Sing the partitions you want to play! This may sound silly, but singing your guitar part you will know if you know it or not. And when you know it, the play will be much easier.

6. Know face pain ...

When the guitar starts, our fingers are neither muscular nor accustomed to contact the strings. If the muscle is growing without us be careful, the holds, they are acquired most often in pain. To ensure that your body produces these corpus callosum at your fingertips (in fact, additional layers of skin), so it should feel the need. Thus it is only playing regularly as you develop them. But this does not come without pain. It happens regularly that even beginners play until they have their fingers in blood. Know those little aches face because you do not know at the beginning. However, also know breaks. If your fingers bleed, is that it may be time to stop the guitar today. Take it back tomorrow. Oh yes, he must suffer to be good ...

Note however that the tendinitis! If you experience abnormal muscle pain in your fingers, it is necessary that you ask your guitar and stop playing until your total recovery, and after consultation with at least one pharmacist. That said, the tendinitis is a disease found in more experienced players and not for beginners. You therefore unlikely to seek your fingers-on learning to play. But keep this in mind for when you have more baggage behind you.

7. Take classes or follow a method

The best way to learn to play the guitar, is still to have a model to follow. By following a progressive training program, you earn a lot of time compared to self-taught. First, because you will not take bad habits sometimes difficult to correct. Secondly, because you will proceed in stages over an outline drawn and designed for the beginner.

The best is probably to follow the course of a certified teacher, which can detect your mistakes and guide you through the progressive mastery of your instrument. But everyone is not 15 or 20 euros to spend for each hour of class. In this case you can for the price of a course, follow a method specially developed by a professional who will also guide you in a very effective way to learn to play guitar.

If you apply these tips, chances are you will make huge strides in a short time. And do not forget the most important advice: practice, practice and more! You know what you have to do.

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