How to Learn Guitar
knowing how to learn guitar and properly applying knowledge of the instrument can sometimes be overlooked by those who just want to play their favorite songs and nothing more. A common way to learn guitar is to find guitar tabs or sheet music and learn to read the notes. With the internet, it’s very easy to download transcriptions, but what if you don’t know how to read the music?
In many cases, people start training themselves by ear. You know, listen to parts of the song, try to find the notes on the guitar, memorize their positions, and so on. But this can be a very time consuming and often confusing way to learn melodies on the guitar. Plus, it doesn’t really teach you how to learn guitar as much as it just teaches you how to play a particular song or part of a song.
To fully understand your guitar, it will help if you can read sheet music. Start with learning how basic notes are arranged on a staff:
Here’s how the notes above apply to your guitar in the open position. It’s important to know that the notes above the guitar board image below – E, A, D, G, B, E – are the open notes, whereas you are not pressing the guitar string down on the fret board.
Certain concepts of music theory will be examined in later blog posts in order to understand how music is written as well as learning scales, which will eventually help you learn to play the guitar faster by reading your favorite melodies on sheet music. But for now, if you want to know a proper way of how to learn guitar, it’s a good idea to start playing all of the notes above. Play them up and down the guitar board and remember to tune your guitar properly.
Here’s a video to help you tune your guitar: