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Rock Guitar Lesson - For Beginners
You're going to have to practice a lot so it would be a good idea to buy your own or at least have one on long term loan. Try to have a in your hands as much as possible, even while you're on the computer or watching television, this means your going to play it more, so as soon as you see, pick it up and just sit there with it on your knee. This is a beginner's Rock Lesson so we are going to start with the very basics which are: The Strings
The Frets
The Dots
Chords First you will need to memorize the string names The thinnest String 1 E
String 2 B
String 3 G
String 4 D
String 5 A The thickest String 6 E I would advise you to make something similar to an acronym of the string names (Start at sting 6, because most people tune from string 6 first) I.e., Every -Angry -Drummer -Goes -Barmy -Everyday A bit daft maybe but it does the trick. On the neck of the there are a lot of metal strips, and the spaces in between are called frets. The First fret is the one farthest away from you and the highest fret is the one nearest your body. If you place your 1st finger on 6th string in between the white the first metal strip and the white plastic strip this would be called 1st fret 6th string. There are dots on most guitars on the side of the neck and/or on the front of the neck and these help a guitarist find frets quicker.
The dots can be found on frets 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19, 21. If your has less dots than I have mentioned do not worry, not all of these dot's are essential. A chord is where more than 1 fret (note) is played at the same time. There are a lot of chords used in music, but there are fewer chords used in a Rock Lesson than say a jazz lesson. The most common types of chords are the Major chord and the Minor chord. There are 12 notes used in western music and these are A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, and G# (the scale then starts again at A) eventually you want to be able to play a Major and Minor chord from every one of these notes (that is 24 chords). This is a large goal that is not as difficult as it sounds. Bar chords are types of chord that can be slide up and down the neck and so giving you lots of chords for just one shape, Using bar chords you can learn to play these 24 chords quite quickly once you can play and move bar chords. Bar chords are used all the time in rock music so even though it can be difficult to get your fingers in the right shape at first it defiantly worth spending the time to improve. I hope you have learned something new in this first lesson and in future Rock Lessons, I will discuss the subjects of Chords in more depth, Rhythms, Picking, Scales, Stylistic sounds i.e. bends, vibrato, harmonics Improvisation and playing other peoples songs.
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