Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 14 : How to tune a guitar

A guitar have to be tuned. By tuning, we mean the notes and the pitches of the strings can be changed to match the standard. To do that, Tuning pegs located in the guitar head are used. The tuning pegs if rotated clockwise or anticlockwise direction can shift the note and pitch of the string. Before playing a guitar, it is necessary to check the tuning of the guitar and if tuning is out of order...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 13 : Video of guitar crawling exercise

Now , lets watch the demonstrative video and try to practice in the same way. This exercise is a bit difficult and requires practice, but as you practice more and more you'll master it . As you see it's difficult moving two finger at the same time while leaving two fingers behind. Here's an advice which you can do in the beginning if you can not perform it, you can the take one finger and then...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 12 : Crawling Exersice

Now that you have seen and understood how the runner exercise is done, we would now be looking at another exercise which as the name suggests is when seen someone doing it looks as though an octopus is crawling through the some difficult test. Well let's go about it and start looking at it Step 1. Place the four fingers on first four fret of Last string(E string) respectively as shown in the picture. Step...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 11 : Demonstration of the runner exercise

So here's the video for the runner! Exercise as much to master it. ...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 10 : Exercises

In order to gain some practice to introduce perfection, there are some great basic exercises to be done. There are two exercises which I recommend you to do daily for at least 60 minutes over the whole day. The first exercise : The runner In this exercise , you are given a chance to improve movement...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 9

So here it is, Both strumming and playing chords together. As explained in the previous lessons how a chord is determined and the process of remembering it and playing it. This is practically demonstrated now in the uploaded video. In the video , Chord C Major is played with a simple strumming. Now, try this on your guitar!!! It's not very easy so playing a chord can't be accomplished first...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 8

Now that we have figured out how to get the notes of a chord and how to plot those notes in a guitar fret, Now lets try and practically do it. We will play the same chord we plot in the guitar in the previous lesson which is C Major Chord First place fingers on the fret step by step. As you know,...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 7

Now its time to give you a pictorial representation of the mapping of the chord notes on a guitar. The filled circle represent where the finger is to be placed and the unfilled circle refers to the free string. As you can see if you place the fingers as in the picture and strum with the other hand...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 6

Plotting of the chord notes in a guitar Let's now plot for C Major As learnt from the example of lesson # 5,The three notes for C Major are C,E,G Now we'll plot the chord string by string, on each string we will calculate whether the string will be played free or which fret needs to be played 1st String E : Play Free Let's take the first string which is 'E' As the note is one of the note from...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 5

Now we are ready to learn how to make Chords: As you already now know, there are two basic types of chords i.e major and minor chord. In order to play a chord on the guitar we need to know the notes of which the chord comprises of. To find the notes of a particular chord,there is a formula to make out notes of a chord. The formula of the major chord is 158 and for minor chord is 148. So how does...

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Question to Win!

Hey everyone..... Now its time I'd distribute the guitars to the top 2 winners who give the best answers and a live portrait of the 3rd person who is the winner for your live portraits visit the following blog as they are making portraits for you on a canvas !! http://yourportraitoncanvas.blogspot.com/ I am posting the questions here and you can answer in the comments section. 1. What is...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 4

Hosgeldiniz! A guitar can have more or less than six strings but usual standard lead guitar players use six strings. Following are the other number of strings used in guitars. 1. 4 String Guitar ( Bass Guitar used for playing bass) 2. 6 String Guitar ( Normally used) 3. 12 String Guitar( It played the same like a six string guitar but used to give shimmering effect) 4. 18 String Guitar Now we...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 3

Hola! Now you know the basics of the music and guitar, now it will be easier for you to understand further. The Picture shows the fret of a guitar, I have written down notes of each free string in the beg. As you can see in the picture, The notes which are indicated are played when you press...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 2

Hey guys! Now that you guys are already familiar with the parts of the guitar lets go on and learn some more! In this lesson we'd learn today regarding the notes of each string of a six string guitar. If pluck a string of a guitar it will play a note, so the base is to know which note is this. Once you know that you can play any note you want by pressing your fingers just before the frets of the...

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Learn to play Guitar: Lesson # 1

In the First Lesson, We'd talk about parts of the guitar. The parts can be seen in the picture also. 1. Head: The top part is called the Head 2. Tuning pegs: The Pegs to tune the strings(wires like) are called tuning pegs 3. Body: The bottom hollow part of the acoustic guitar with the hole is called...

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Learn to play guitar : Introductory session

My previous post contained ways to earn good money which also included being a musician and composer. For you to be a composer and a musician you need to select an instrument. The best instrument for that purpose is the guitar. Here in this blog now i will impart lessons for you to start learning guitar. Types of Guitar: 1.Acoustic Guitar 2.Electric Guitar 3.Electro-Acoustic Guitar To learn well...

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