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When You are a Beginner, How Do You Start With Playing Guitar?

 

Beginners and guitar! Hmm, not exactly the best combination, are they? The reason I said that is because, I too was a beginner at a point of time and I too did the same mistakes that most beginners do despite having read through a thousand pages of beginner’s guides and literature. Now, about 4 years later, here I am preaching to the choir. But I simply cannot help it. If you are smart, you will get the gist of things by the end of this article. If not, then I will see you four years down the line saying the same lines that I said up there. So are you all set to proceed further? Beginners are a very impatient species. From the first day onwards, they seem to want everything faster than the average Joe on the streets. The moment I held a guitar for the first time, I was expecting to beat my instructor. After a month, I hoped to beat the Eagles (Whew!). If you are going on the same lines, then stop. Here are five pointers that should help you enormously in your learning process as a beginner.

1. Slow and steady wins the race. The person who said that was a lot smarter than most of us. The first lesson for beginners looking to learn the guitar is ‘be patient’. No one has learnt to play the guitar in 3 minutes or 60 minutes or one day for that matter. So if you are still investing your money in books that promise to teach you to play the guitar in minutes, then it’s a total wastage of your investments. The guitar is a musical instrument that requires a lot of skill and patience to master. So, set a realistic time frame to learn the basics and a lifetime to master it.
2. Hold the guitar properly. You only learn it once and you will probably find that you can never unlearn your first learning for years. So ensure that you get your basics right and hold the guitar properly. It should feel comfortable in your hands and you must be able to play both frets and strings with equal grace.
3. Start off with finger exercises. I still remember how my instructor always used to tell me to warm up each time I wanted to play and I wished I could strangulate him (If my instructors reading this, then please forgive me). But over the years, it is this warm up routine that has helped me hone my skills. Finger exercises are a very important part of your learning curve. It might seem like the most tedious thing at first, but without it, you will be like a kid stuttering to recite a poem.
4. Start by playing lead and then proceed to chords. Once you start playing chords, the impatient demon tends to take over and you want to play the most advanced chords in a few weeks. But chords are the core of any guitar lesson and you need to give it due time and effort. Go slow and take one chord at a time. Master it and then proceed to the next.
5. Practice, my boy, practice. The last thing you want to do is play your guitar once every week. I remember that I used to practice for almost 8 hours a day while learning the instrument. It has gone down now. But I still tweak the strings at least once in a day. No amount of lessons or reading material is going to teach you what practice will.

Keep these five things in mind, follow them routinely until you have reached an advanced stage. (You can play a few songs) and then, stick to the last point in the five. Have fun!

Where can I find a puzzle with the image of a guitar on it? I wanna do it, frame it and give it as a gift.?

There are Some places, (a few might even be online) where you can send a picture of your choice, and they will Make a puzzle out of it.