Guitar Lessons For Beginners

Guitars are definitely the most popular instrument in the whole world, you can see it anywhere. Actually, guitars can be divided into two types

1. Acoustic guitars
2. Electric Guitars

Acoustic guitars are not depending on any external amplification. It has the natural ability to create acoustic amplification. Thanks to the shape and resonance of the acoustic guitar. However, there are some acoustic guitars that are fitted with a pick up. This is to avoid using a microphone which produces a lot of feedback. We don’t call it the acoustic guitar anymore if this is the case, it is and electro acoustic or acoustic electro guitar. It is not the same with semi – hollow electric guitars because it is more acoustic than electric.

Electric guitars, however, are way cooler in my opinion. These are solid and semi – hollow guitars that are powered by a pickup and amplifier. It is however, dependent to amplifiers and electronics. But don’t let that discourage you; electric guitars are the most played instrument in the world and the coolest. You could plug it in on a gadget and you could start rocking out. But of course, you have to learn it firs.

If this is your first time to hold that guitar, you should know a few things before you start. Guitar playing is one of the coolest thing ever and also one of the most difficult to learn. But if you have the right approach and attitude, it wouldn’t be that difficult at all. So if you want to know more about these things that you should first consider, you came to the right place. Ice old tells the things that you need to think about before you start your journey in the world of guitar playing. By the moment you finish reading this, you will be enlightened about this and your guitar learning would be running smoothly. So sit back, relax and enjoy reading.

Where to learn?

1. Private Lessons – you could always hire or pay for a guitar instructor to teach you personally. This is very effective and a bit expensive too. However, learning is guaranteed with this method as long as your teacher is really good.
2. Online guitar lessons – this is the easiest method to learn guitar. All you have to do is find a decent online guitar lesson website and register and you are on your way to learning.

Bending is a lead guitar technique that is capable of enhancing your overall guitar playing capacity and ability. It is a very essential technique if you want to put more life in your guitar playing. This is how you put accent and emotion in your guitar solos. This is an essential guitar technique. There are two aspects that are important in bending:

1. Finger Strength – this is how strong you could push the strings up. Bending needs a good amount of strength to reach those intended notes. Light gauge strings are nice for bending. So be sure you have light gauge strings.
2. Ear Training – bending would be sucky if you don’t know how to listen carefully. You should know which note you are shooting for. To practice this, try alternating between the bended note and the regular note to be accustomed to it.

Bending is common with rock and blues and almost on any genre. If you really want to have a superb guitar solo, and not a lifeless one, you should learn how to do a bend properly. That is how it is. Practice this together with your daily routine and time will come that you will get used to it and perfect it.

Before I move forward and explain you what is alternate tuning, I would like to warn you that I am no expert when it comes to alternate tunings.  But I do know that what I know about alternate tuning is sufficient enough to teach people.

There is plenty of alternate tunings, and some of it I know you are familiar with an example is drop D tuning and modal D tuning or what is popularly known as DADGAD. But the question is why do we need to do alternate tunings? The answer to that is this: some songs are more comfortable to play with on certain tuning especially when the chords of the song need a certain open chord or open notes. But of course, it is always dependent to the song creator. It’s up to him, if he created the song using a certain tuning, well, people have to play it like that if they want to cover it or it would never sound right.

An example is the song “You Stand Here with me” by Creed. It is on drop D. the reason to this is they want to hit a certain low note, lower than E. Drop D allows them to have a low Eb and Low D.

If you’re going to buy new guitar, you should not just by any guitar.  Remember that not all guitars have the thing specification, prices, and Brands.  Depending on your level of guitar playing, there is a guitar that is perfect for you.  Let’s say you are still a beginner, and you still don’t know much about playing guitar.  In your case, purchasing a very expensive fender Stratocaster is not a smart thing to do.  These types of guitars are very expensive.  So if you are a beginner, should firs get a guitar that is not expensive but still would sound good.  There are lots of guitars out there that are very much perfect for beginners.  Say, if you want a fender Stratocaster, you could always start with a Squier Stratocasters standard.  It has the same specifications and tonal quality of the fender strat but it is relatively cheaper.  Course they have cut corners just to achieve this low price, but it is worth it and its sufficient enough for a beginner like you.

Another option that you could consider is buying an acoustic guitar.  Acoustic guitar is best for learning since you can bring it anywhere you want and you could learn anywhere you want.  So that’s it.