Hand Position When Playing Guitar

When you are playing guitar your fretting (holding the strings down) hand holds the chords and the notes on the guitar neck, while you strumming hand either finger picks or plays with the pick over the body The Fretting Hand Try and position your thumb about midway up the back of the guitar neck. When your thumb is in this position it acts as a balancing force to your fingers as you play chords. This is because in effect you are squeezing the neck between your thumb and fingers.

The Pattern for Learning Guitar Notes On the Neck

Learning to play different notes up the neck and on each string is an important part of a beginners foundation. After all chords and scales are all made up of a mixture of notes, if you don’t know where different notes are located on the neck you’ll sort of plateau with your learning sooner then later

Beginner Guitar Chords Using Only Three Strings

Learning guitar chords can be intimidating for a beginner. That’s why in today’s post I want to show you three different 3 string guitar chords

Beginner Guitar Chords – E and G Major Lesson

Once you begin to learn to play chords you finally start to feel like a guitar player. Of course it does take some time to flawlessly be able to play several chords and switch between them, but all beginners can get there with some practice. Today I’m going to start you on that journey by teaching you how to properly play the E and G major chords

Quickly Learn The Electric Guitar

Strumming the guitar is one of the nicest hobbies that you could enjoy. Especially during semester breaks and vacation and you have nothing to do at home. But, if you do not know how to play it yet, there are some ways to learn it, whether it is an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. There are many resources online and it is easy to follow. It is nice to find an affordable and consistent process to learn to the electric guitar. It is recommendable that you should stick to a single method so that you easily master the basic steps in order to get the best possible outcome.