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Hello! If you are reading this, you probably want to learn how to play guitar, no? Well you came to the right place.
I searched in our directory, there were guitar eggs, but no lessons.
What we are going to do first is learn our strings, vital to the novice guitarist:
E---
A---
D---
G---
B---
E---
(note: the strings from top to bottom, is how you look onto the bottom of your guitar.)
Now that you know your strings, you can start to learn chords. You may be wanting to pull up tabs and start rocking away, but you must start small, and where you start is chords.
What we are going to learn about first, is the "D" progression. A progression is a series of three chords. A I chord, a IV chord, and a V7 chord. what this means, is the I chord is the chord of the key you are playing in, the IV chord, is the chord 4 steps above a I chord, and a V7 chord, is the chord that is one step above the IV chord.
Anyway, here is how you will interpret your first progression. Remember how you saw the strings up above? it will be in this format, and each bar that is horizontal will indicate the next fret, and the number inside will show what finger to put on the string.
Try and go through these chords and transfer between them without having to stop to change finger positions. After doing said progresion, and being able to do it without stoping inbetween chords, you are ready to move onto a different progresion, which i will include in the next part.
Thanks for reading, and i hoped you learned something. If there is a guitar expert and thinks there is something wrong with my guide, please tell me, and i will try and fix it in my next guide.
Sep 19, 2008 4:48 pm - Oh, and for future reference, "steps" don’t mean anything to a beginner. In order to understand steps you must first understand Minor vs Major. You also must understand all the notes, not just eadgb, and you have to have some concept of what the fifth is. Expecially since there are a few times when you go up a half step in your explination, you have no consistancy for newbs to draw conclusions from.
Your mixing basics. I found it hard to teach people theory while they try and learn to play, it’s kinda either or.
But, I enjoy the thought of spreading music, so keep up, yah?
Sep 19, 2008 8:47 pm - Well as far as I know this is accurate. (I don’t know guitars at all) I’ll give you 3* because this could’ve been much more detailed and there could have been pictures.
Sep 20, 2008 11:33 pm - While its true that the string names are EADGBE from the Thickest String to the Thinnest, you tabbed it out backwards. Its:
E--
B--
G--
D--
A--
E--
So the bottom ’E’ would be the thickest string on your guitar.
Sep 21, 2008 7:49 am - yeah, i thought i did it wrong, cause i noticed when i looked at tabs later i did the strings wrong. and hooded, seriously, go kill yourself. dont say this is cped of google unless you have proof. Yes there are other ways to learn guitar, no shit sherlock. But it is easiest when you learn chords first. Maybe you just have a VERY long pms?
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