27th August 2008

How to Learn to Play Guitar 101: Shop!

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Do you want to know how to learn to play guitar? You would be surprised at the many ways there are to discover how to learn to play guitar. Online, courses like the Jamorama Lead Guitar teach you guitar playing like it’s nobody’s business. Offline, you could always ask guitar-playing friends for informal lessons.

Whether you learn to play the guitar online or off, however, you would still need to secure the following:

1. A guitar — Any type will do so long as it has six strings.
2. A guitar pick — Any pick will do the job but if you have a slew of picks to choose from, get the medium gauged ones.
3. A chair without arms
4. A healthy dose of patience
5. A chord chart

But wait! That’s not all you need. You need five more things, too, and these are not the type that you can buy from a store.

1. The different parts of a guitar
2. The names of different open strings
3. How to tune a guitar
4. What a chromatic scale is and how to play it
5. Playing simple songs using the most basic chords such as the C major, D major, and the G major

Learning to play the guitar is fun. Unless you do it with determination, however, you will never progress past the first string.

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