Tutorial guitar playing

Do you have a guitar? No ... do you have a desire to learn how to play the guitar? Most likely, since you are on this page. Everyone who wants to play the guitar sooner or later:

1) looking for a teacher to play the guitar or enter a music school;

2) looking for a self-instruction guitarist, learns himself.

In this article we will talk about people who chose the second way - and I consider it no less worthy than studying in a music school.

There are thousands of tutorials on the Internet playing the guitar, hundreds of sites that offer paid / free guitar training, but they all differ in the availability of explanations, the approach to learning, the range of skills that reveals and shows the training course ...

But each tutorial guitar playing one way or another contains a base, which you need to know for any training.

So, where do you start?

1) You adjust your six-string guitar. You can do this in several ways: configure yourself, configure through the tuner, configure through the program on your mobile phone.

The best and easiest way is to tune the guitar through a program, for example, GuitarTuna. At its core, this is an ordinary tuner, only installed on your phone. The essence of the setting is simple - when you pull the string, the application begins to draw a graph of the sound of your string relative to the red line in the middle of the screen. Your goal - as accurately as possible to bring the string sound to the red line. Moreover, the application will sound a beep when the string is tuned. By the way, GuitarTuna itself determines which string you are pulling. Adjusting all 6 strings in turn, you will tune the guitar.

2) Become acquainted with the structure of the guitar. Each acoustic and semi-acoustic guitar has a neck, frets, pins, resonator opening, deck, shell, pegs. In fact, this is not so important part in terms of influencing the skill of playing the guitar, but it will be needed with further training to at least represent what is at stake.

3) Become acquainted with the correct landing. There are several opinions about how to properly sit while playing the guitar. For example, someone advises a classical landing, which is taught and attached great importance to music schools, and someone is against the introduction of certain rules of landing when playing the guitar.

Classical landing involves tilting the guitar. To do this, you need to put the left foot on a stand about 10-15 centimeters high from the floor, the guitar follows the curve on the hip of the left leg. This will result in a tilt of the guitar, that is, the neck will not be parallel to the floor, but at an inclination of 25-35 degrees.

4) Training chords. From this moment, the technical part of the guitar playing begins. In the game on the guitar, both hands participate. The left hand holds the neck, and the right hand plays near the resonator hole. The left hand clamps the strings in the frets, the right hand plays the sound, pulls the string, performs the pinch. Lada - the distance between the sills, and the sills - the protrusions on the fretboard. That is, the frets are the distances between the protrusions on the fretboard. For example, the points on the fretboard are located at 5, 7, 9 (sometimes on the 3rd fret), and two points - at 12 fret.

Chords are rules for setting the fingers of the left hand on strings. There are a lot of chords, which means that there are many variations of setting the fingers on the strings. Accordingly, when different chords are set, the guitar sounds differently, in a special way. There are countless chords , but it's mandatory to start with the study of the chords Am, Dm, E (they are called "three chords"), with the help of them you can play your first few songs. Next, you need to learn the chords C, G, A, H7, D, F. Knowing these chords, you can play 90% of the chord songs on the guitar.

When chord progression, many questions and problems can arise, for example, it will not be possible to clamp the chord so that all the strings sound. Everything is decided by practice - and only. Once I could not put a chord F, and I said to myself: "I'll try to put it 1000 times in a row." Approximately on the 100th time I began to notice that it was already getting a little bit. And after a while I learned at all.

5) Training in battles and busts. If the chords show us how and where the fingers of the left hand should be placed, then the battle and crossings determine the movements of the right hand, near the resonator hole. It is these movements that extract the sound and reproduce it. The most famous battle is the battle of the six (out of 6 movements) or the "Tsoev" fight (out of 4 movements). You can learn the fight in about a day, with a lot of desire, patience and zeal.

The most difficult movement for beginners in combat was and always remains a stub. This is a special movement of the fingers, which gives a characteristic muffled sound. To make a stub, you need:

1. Make the tin "OK" by connecting the thumb and index finger of the right hand.

2. Put your hand on the strings.

3. Simultaneously open the gesture "OK" and, without taking your hand from the strings, move your fingers from a position almost parallel to the strings, into an almost perpendicular position.

Perebor - also the movement of the right hand, but more often it is tweaking the strings in turn, that is, one at a time, but in a certain pattern. The overtravel sounds more beautiful than the fight, but you can play a smaller part of the songs by busting than by fighting. The most famous crossings are B-3-2-1-2-3 and B-3-2-3-1-3-2-3, where B is a bass string.

The fact is that for each chord there is its own bass string, i.e. That string, which will need to be pulled when sorting. For example, the chord Am is the 5th string, the Dm chord is the 4th string, and the chord E is the 6th string.

6) Tablature. After studying fights, bruising, chords, you will play a significant number of songs on the guitar. It will seem that you can quite a lot ... But in fact it is a base, just a base that you need for a more professional and beautiful game. To further improve their skills you need to familiarize yourself with the tablature.

Tablatures are a special way of recording how you need to clamp the strings on the guitar. The definition is a bit similar to the chords, but the chords show only a certain way of clamping the strings, and tablatures are unlimited in variety. In fact, everything just sounds difficult, but in practice to deal with tablatures is a matter of five minutes.

It's much harder to play tablatures than chords, but music sounds much more beautiful and purer. Tablatures can play 99% of songs on the guitar, the most diverse, from courtyards to solo parts of rock bands and metal. It is with the tablature your fantasy will begin, your ability to select songs by ear will begin to develop.

This is how the way of becoming from a beginner looks like, which does not know anything about the guitar, to a professional guitar player. Whether you become it or not depends on you. I can only wish you luck, patience and perseverance! Guitar takes a lot of time, but it brings no less pleasure! Good luck!