Beginning Guitar Tips?
I’m a 15 year old female. I have a fender acoustic guitar. I’ve had for maybe a month or two and haven’t really bothered trying to learn it just because I don’t know how to go about starting. I tried playing some songs off of ultimate-guitar.com, but it’s frustrating. I also tried watching this dvd that came with the guitar (along with some picks, a strap, a case, a tuner, one of those things to string the guitar and some other stuff). Should I try and use the dvd or get a book or something? Oh yeah, I don’t think my tuner is very good either, so should I get a better one? I’m not even sure if my guitar is in tune or not because the tuner sucks. xD
Thanks in advance for the answers :]
I got my guitar when i was 10, by the time I was 12, I could play almost all of the Metallica songs. I learned Eruption by Van Halen when I was 11.
I would reccomend these things.
1. Start with an electric guitar (but its ok if you want acustic)
2. DVD’s DONT WORK! The people arent actually there to give you advise or tell you if your doing it wrong, I would go to a descent guitar teacher for a couple years.
3. Get a book, but make sure it doesnt instantly start you out on chords. I highly reccomend Ernie Ball beginner book first.
4. Go over the book with your teacher if you have one.
5. Once you feel pretty good and comfortable with a guitar, start using easy tabs, like jingle bells even though its dorky. Its not easy to start instantly going into hard tabs.
6. Watch “how to play guitar” videos on you tube. Better than DVDs, and sometimes better than tabs.
7. Learn techniques like power chords and palm mutes.
8. Practice. (I practice 1/2 hour befor school, 2 after, and 1 after dinner.)
9. Make up songs once you get good
10. Don’t instantly expect to play good. It takes a lot of time and patients to learn guitar.
Do these in any order you want, but i reccomend doing them in the order provided. Just remember number 10, do not expect to be good the first year or so. But as long as you are patient and practice, you will be better than you expected before you know it.
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