Basic Guitar Lesson
This is a basic guitar lesson for beginners. This set of online video guitar lessons will include guitar basics such as: Tuning A Guitar By Ear - How To Hold The Guitar Pick - and How To Hold Your Fingers On The Guitar Strings -
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How To Hold The Guitar Pick
The first thing to learn in this basic guitar lesson for beginners is how to hold the guitar pick. Of course it all comes down to how you feel most comfortable holding the pick and this is just for reference. In fact, many people that I know that play guitar hold the pick different than me. Not to mention the many different preferences of guitar pick gage.
Some may like to use a .73 mm gauge while I personally choose to use an 88mm gauge guitar pick which is a little thicker. There are also different gauges of guitar strings, which will be explained later on.
Some people may even hold the guitar pick one way when playing a particular part in a song, and then hold it totally different way while they are playing another part.
How To Hold Your Fingers
On The Guitar Strings
The next thing to learn in the basic guitar lesson for beginners is how to hold your fingers on the guitar strings - which also is done differently by many people so this also is just for reference. You basically want to be able to press down on the different guitar strings without touching the other strings, which can be difficult at first, but if you are new at playing guitar now would be the time to play everything that you play correctly because of the fact that it is so easy to pick up bad habits like sloppy playing, and bad timing to name a few, which are hard (but not impossible) to get rid of once they are formed.
It may be a good idea to cut your fingernails to a relatively short length (not so short that it hurts to hold down the strings), that will make it easier to hold down the guitar strings, and also on the picking hand, if you have long fingernails, they could sometimes get caught up on the guitar strings when you are picking them, but then again, some people pick the strings with their fingernail(s).
Many guitar players also have different preferences on how you hold your thumb on the guitar neck. I know someone that uses his thumb to go over the top of the guitar neck to mute the top half of the guitar strings while he is picking them, but I hold my thumb a different way then him. His way works, but my way works to.
One thing that this basic guitar lesson is trying to get across, and that is that there really is no right way, or a wrong way to do things when playing guitar, there is only you learning new, and different things, and different ways to do them, and then just figuring out which methods produce the best results, and what feels most comfortable and right for you.
Tuning A Guitar By Ear
This part of the basic guitar lesson for beginners will show you tuning a guitar by ear. You could always use an electric guitar tuner to tune your guitar, but it very convenient to know how to tune a guitar by ear. There are many different kinds of guitar tunings, but the most common guitar tuning that most guitarists use is known as Standard Tuning.
Some people just have a good ear, and can tune a guitar without any reference to go by, but once you have tuned in a guitar several times, chances are, you will have no trouble at all tuning a guitar without an electric guitar tuner, or any reference at all.
You may string or tune your electric guitar differently depending on what type of guitar bridge you have. For instance, if you have a guitar bridge that has a floating tremolo bar, like a Floyd Rose guitar bridge, then you can insert the guitar strings either at the tuning peg end of the guitar neck, or at the guitar bridge, and if you have what's known as lock nut (that locks down the strings so that the guitar doesn't go out of tune as much - if at all) then after you tune the strings with the tuning pegs, you lock down the guitar strings with the lock nut, and use what's called a fine tuner, to get it perfectly in tune.
If you don't have floating tremolo type of guitar bridge, then you might have to insert the string from the back of the guitar, or the end of the bridge, and you would only use the tuning pegs to tune the guitar because those style of guitar bridges do not have a fine tuner.
When tuning a guitar by ear, there are two different methods that you could use. You could tune the guitar in by picking the strings with the guitar pic while your fingers are depressed on the notes, or you could use harmonics, which is done by barely touching the guitar string when you are picking it - which will be demonstrated on the basic guitar lesson.
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