Learn 2 Play Guitar
What’s the best way to learn How To Play Guitar by teaching yourself?
Many great guitarists were self-taught. I was basically self-taught although I had an instructor. I figured it out on my own and all my friends who play think I’m weird because of the way I do fingerings and play leads etc. If you want to teach yourself, first you must learn how to tune. If you want to learn yourself, try not to rely on googling things to help. In a way, I find it more helpful to figure out what feels comfortable for a new student him/herself. They gain speed, accuracy, and more technique faster then forcing someone to get used to something that is uncomfortable to them. I’ve been playing for 5 years, and I’ve surpassed my dad (playing 36 years) because I move much faster and accurately since everything I do is comfortable and easy for me to play. Anyways, to tune you should know notes. The standard notes for a guitar is E A D G B e starting from the 6th string (the thickest) to the first (the thinnest). In music the notes go from A to G. So if you count, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, A, there are 5 notes. Play the E string on the fifth fret to play an A. The second string should sound the same as that. The notes that do not have sharps are B and E. So these are the notes (in order) used in music.
A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, and then back to A.
You should figure it out this way for your first time so you have an understanding of notes and you can be more then a guitar player but actually a musician. Next you need to learn to read sheet music, then when you can, tab, and finally cord charts. Personally I find that chord charts are needed less then real notation or tableture. When you can read that, start trying to play it. Get used to moving around the neck, and when you can play decently from reading music, then you should get an instructor to teach you the theory. Learning theory will help you complete your learning of guitar. It’s how you learn to solo and about things like arpeggios that can be used in solos or just songs. Learning theory is important but it’s also the least fun part of guitar. So you should get used to playing a bit and get into it before you do the serious stuff.
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Teach your self, if you hold the guitar correctly you will just automatically know how to play it
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get a book or to to learn some chords. then get some music that interests you. Learn to play that. Looking tabs up online is also a good way to learn. Learn as many chords as you can. Learn some scales with it. Most music is around pentatonic scales on guitar, but their are some others. Then just go through tabs. Try to learn something knew about guitar every time you learn a new song. As you get better try to relate chords to songs on the radio. Find what key the song is in (which scale they base the song on). Keep practicing. When teaching yourself, it is really easy to give up. Don’t let the urge take you.
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I played by ear for 20 years before finding a really cool DVD set that has everything you’d learn from years of private lessons. There are three DVDs — beginner, intermediate, advanced — and they teach you everything from the very basics (tuning, the names of strings, etc.) to reading music and tablature. Frankly, the set is fantastic and I’m amazed at how much I’ve learned, despite having played professionally for so long. The great thing about the DVDs is that you can learn at your own pace and go back and review things later. Even better, the whole set costs $36, whereas you’d spend thosands of dollars to get the same information from a private instructor. Here’s a link:
http://books-videos-music.musiciansfriend.com/product/Rock-House-Learn-Rock-Acoustic-Guitar-Beginner-Intermediate-Hands-of-Steel-DVD-Package?sku=942720
Good luck!
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Guitarist for 20+ years.
Learn how to read tablature (tabs), download the tabs to your favorite bands, play along with your favorite songs.
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Get (a) book(s) or DVDs (for a visual reference) that goes over basic musical notation, scales,chords, progressions, and basic theory.
Guitar is more theory that ppl wanna admit to so u wanna learn alot. u’ll progress faster w/ more theory
After that, u can try tabs (if u have no musical background, NEVER start w/ tabs 1st. if u do so it a horrible and hard transition back to normal music)
i use ultimateguitar.com. these tabs are transcribed by ppl like u and me, and they are often wrong. So i like using the guitarpro and power tab versions of wat song i wanna learn. u’ll hafta pay for guitarpro, but there is a program called tuxguitar which acts and works just like guitarpro but its free. just go to the tuxguitar webpage and download tuxguitar 1.2 (the newest one so far)
for theory help use theorylessons.com
for fingerings for chords and scales and some use all-guitar-chords.com
youtube has alotta good video lessons availble, but what i suggest above all other modes of learnig is playin with others. whether its a teacher a friends that better than u or whateva, u’ll learn more that way than sitting by urself behind the screen or a book.
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There’s this really great, free, online teacher on YouTube (but he has a site as well) called Justin Sandercoe… His lessons are totally free and really well done.
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Don’t kid yourself – getting lessons from a professional teacher is a million times better.
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Long time pro guitarist
learn the basic chords
learn the scales
practice songs you like
never stop trying
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self taught guitarist
Look up some chords,practice scales, look up finger exercises for guitar
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Play Guitar,Bass,Piano
Learning an instrument is like climbing a ladder where each step represents new skills and expertise. Obviously on a ladder you have to go through step 1 and 2 to get to step 3.
When you teach yourself you often don’t know that there is a step 3! And if you do know there’s a step 3 you might not know how to get there. So you sit around on step 2 for ages not getting anywhere.
What a teacher will do is make you aware of what the next step is, how to get there, and how to do it at the right time.
I give you this info as as a (often frustrated) self taught guitarist who became a teacher!
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Many great guitarists were self-taught. I was basically self-taught although I had an instructor. I figured it out on my own and all my friends who play think I’m weird because of the way I do fingerings and play leads etc. If you want to teach yourself, first you must learn how to tune. If you want to learn yourself, try not to rely on googling things to help. In a way, I find it more helpful to figure out what feels comfortable for a new student him/herself. They gain speed, accuracy, and more technique faster then forcing someone to get used to something that is uncomfortable to them. I’ve been playing for 5 years, and I’ve surpassed my dad (playing 36 years) because I move much faster and accurately since everything I do is comfortable and easy for me to play. Anyways, to tune you should know notes. The standard notes for a guitar is E A D G B e starting from the 6th string (the thickest) to the first (the thinnest). In music the notes go from A to G. So if you count, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, A, there are 5 notes. Play the E string on the fifth fret to play an A. The second string should sound the same as that. The notes that do not have sharps are B and E. So these are the notes (in order) used in music.
A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, and then back to A.
You should figure it out this way for your first time so you have an understanding of notes and you can be more then a guitar player but actually a musician. Next you need to learn to read sheet music, then when you can, tab, and finally cord charts. Personally I find that chord charts are needed less then real notation or tableture. When you can read that, start trying to play it. Get used to moving around the neck, and when you can play decently from reading music, then you should get an instructor to teach you the theory. Learning theory will help you complete your learning of guitar. It’s how you learn to solo and about things like arpeggios that can be used in solos or just songs. Learning theory is important but it’s also the least fun part of guitar. So you should get used to playing a bit and get into it before you do the serious stuff.
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I’ve been playing guitar for 5 years, mostly self-taught, I’ve also taught others basic guitar.
Be very, very patient. Learning to play guitar in the beginning is very hard and frustrating. Resist the urge to throw it against the wall and yell "IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!"
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Personal experience