When you start with a guitar, make sure you’re using beginner guitar lessons. One problem that a lot of people have is, they start getting cocky. They say, “Hey, I know how to play now,” when they really don’t. If you do that, then you’re going to be unable to continue because you won’t have the basic skills needed to go on to the more advanced skills.

At first you’ll just want to practice scales. You will want to print out

Open Position Scales:

E-Minor Pentatonic Scale is widely used. In each case you should look up the tablature for that scale, then see if you can do it.

You start with an open 6 string, 3rd  Fret 6th String, Open 5th , 2nd fret 5th String, Open 4th string , second fret 4th String, Open 3rd String, 2nd fret 2nd String, Open 1st String, 2nd Fret 1st String.

E-Blue Scale is a 6-note scale. It’s basically one of the first scales that you’ll learn. You will also use alternating picks. You pick down, then up, down, then up.

When on the tablature you see a zero, that means you touch the strings at all with your left hand.

G-Major Scale is a 7-note scale.

When you’re first doing beginner guitar lessons you learn each of these scales, you practice them forwards, then backwards. You go forwards, then backwards.

You have to alternate pick with each note you play. Strum a string down, then move your left hand, strum

A-Minor starts on the open 6 th string. Look up the tablature for an A-Minor scale.

Doing scales is a good way to start. Get your metronome clicking for a 4/4 beat and play each note, doing the scales one note at a time until your five minutes of practice on that scale is done. Then go to the next scale practice, then the next, then the next. If you keep doing that every day for a week, then you’ll be ready to start learning simple songs.

Don’t jump forward too fast. Do scales and until you’ve mastered scales, don’t move on.

Barre chords are played by placing the first finger presses down either a bunch of strings, or all the strings. The other fingers will be placed first. Then, after you’ve done that, you place the others down.

The first finger is parallel to the fret line with the pin-side even with the line of the fret. Your music teacher will teach you the right placement.

These are the three you learn first when doing Barre Chords.

G-Major Barre Chord

G-Minor (lifts the second string)

C-Major

C-Minor

Once you have learned those four, you’ll move on. You have to learn them regularly until your hand gets strong enough. It might take weeks doing these chords before you can move on. Don’t be impatient. When you begin playing a guitar, the ones who won’t continue will be the ones who haven’t had the courage to just do weeks-worth of scales and chord placement first. You need to get your arm strengthened and your fingers toughened.

Beginner guitar lessons aren’t too hard. They just tend to be rather boring. You’ll want to move forward… “But gee, I’m not playing any songs!” is what you’ll say. Well, don’t worry about that. If you want to play the guitar, you have to be patient.

They won’t actually get you playing a real song for a while. They’ll first teach fingering, simple scales, and then they’ll lead you into more intricate songs. Once your beginner guitar lessons are done, that’s when you can start playing actual songs.

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