Guitar lesson 1

Guitar lesson 1

First you’ll need a guitar (electric is possable), you can find out about buying a guitar an another article. You’ll also need a pick, when your first starting out you’ll want a pick of medium thickness.

Parts of a guitar

Sitting position

Sit on an armless chair with your legs crossed. Rest the body of the guitar on your thigh and hold the neck of the guitar with your left hand (assuming your right handed.)

First note

If you look on the neck of your guitar there are small metal bars running across the surface, these are frets. On a electric guitar there are 22 frets. There are also dots on some the frets, these mark the 3rd,5th,7th,9th,12th,15th,17th,19th and the 21st frets, these are just to help you know where you are when your playing.

Now take your index finger on your left hand and push down just infront of the metal bar on the first fret (the one nearest the headstock of your guitar)

With your right hand hold you pick in between you index finger and thumb and puck the string.

Click here to learn how to ‘pick’

Experiament picking on different strings and frets, you’ll notice a change it sound, the higher the fret, the higher the note, the thinner the string, the higher the note.

Thanks for reading my lesson! Now move onto lesson 2!