How To Play The Guitar A Guide For Complete Beginners [TUTORIAL]
An Easy Introduction To The Guitar For Complete Novices
What you’ll learn:
- How To Tune A Guitar
- Basic Guitar Chord Shapes
- How To Change From Chord To Chord
- How To Count Rhythms
- Strumming Techniques
- How To Find Songs To Play
Requirements:
- How to download files from the internet
- You need to own a guitar
Description
This course is aimed at the student who has never played guitar before. No prior experience is necessary! You will learn to play all of the basic major and minor chords which form the basis of everything you will go on to play once you’ve finished this course. Also I will show you how to negotiate chord changes – something that many beginners struggle with. With this course you will learn how to do this with ease. In addition to this, you will learn to count and play rhythms as we cover the basics of strumming technique.All of these skills are demonstrated via eight specially written & recorded pieces of music which showcase the skills & techniques you will be learning. At the end of the course, I will show you how to take everything you have learned and find songs to play with your new found skills.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
- Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: Getting Your Guitar In Tune & Learning Your First Chord
- Lecture 2 Getting Your Guitar In Tune & Learning Your First Chord
Section 3: One Chord Wonder – Your First Piece Of Music
- Lecture 3 One Chord Wonder
Section 4: Learning To Change Chords
- Lecture 4 Doubling Up – Adding a Second Chord
Section 5: Adding Chord Number Three
- Lecture 5 The Three Chord Trick
Section 6: Introducing A New Type Of Chord – The Dark Sounding Minor
- Lecture 6 Changing The Mood – Introducing The Minor Chord
Section 7: Adding a new chord – G major
- Lecture 7 Oh Gee – A New Chord!
Section 8: A New Chord – C major
- Lecture 8 A New Chord – So Many Songs
Section 9: Another Minor Chord
- Lecture 9 A Minor Thing
Section 10: Bringing It All Together
- Lecture 10 CAGED – all the chords you’ve learned
Complete beginners to playing guitar – no previous experience