GUITAR TUTORIAL

GUITAR TUTORIAL

Before we begin to the first part of our guitar tutorial we should first gather the things needed.

   1. A classical guitar with six strings.

   2. A chair without arms.

Learning a guitar is not that easy for the beginners, for the reason that they may experience pain with their fingers due to first time pressing a guitar string, pain at the back and pain in the shoulders. Thus, we need an Extra amount of “PATIENCE”

By the end of this guitar tutorial, you now know:

The part of the guitar, the names or number of the open strings, how to position your fingers on the strings and frets with the Dmajor, Emajor, Gmajor, Amajor chords, and how to play a simple song using chords.

Part 1: Parts of a Guitar

   1. Headstock - where you can find the tuners.

   2. Tuners - it is where you adjust the tune or pitch of the strings.

   3. Nut - it is the part of the guitar which separates the headstock from the neck you can

notice the grove in it w/c guides the strings.

   4. Neck - you can find here the strings and the frets.

   5. Body - it is the part of the guitar which makes sound because this is where the

Sound hole is located.

   6. Sound Hole - it is the part of the guitar which helps the body produce sounds.

   7. Bridge - it is where the strings end.

There are many types of guitars and some of them have or doesn't have the parts of the guitar. But, in our tutorial, we are only going to focus on a classical guitar.

Part 2: The Neck

Since we now know the parts of the guitar, let's study the neck. The neck is the most important part of the guitar because it is where the tune and chords are done by positioning the fingers of our hands. You can notice that there are metal strips on it, and that is what we call the frets. There are also dots in between the metal strips, the 1st dot means it is the 5th fret, 2nd dot is the 7th fret, 3rd dot is the 9th fret and so on.

To further explain, the first space after the nut is the 1st fret and so on.

Now, let's proceed in getting to know the strings. The string nearest to the ground or the thinnest string is called string number 1, the following strings are string # 2, 3, 4, 5. The string which is located at the very top is the string # 6.

Part 2: The Fingers

Now after knowing the frets and the names of the strings, let us proceed to the numbers of the fingers. It is necessary to know the numbers of the fingers for us to easily locate it to the frets and to the strings. Now let us name the fingers, the pinky finger, the ring finger, the middle finger, the pointing finger and the thumb.

The pinky finger would be finger # 4, the ring finger would be the finger # 3, the middle finger would be finger #2, the pointing finger would be finger #1 and since the thumb is on the back part of the neck it is called "T", because the thumb isn't able to be located in the frets aqnd strings.

Part 3: The Chords

Let us now proceed to the Chords. Knowing the chords is fun. Let us now study the basic chords of the guitar which are the G, D, E, C, and A.

The G Chord:

Place your hand in the neck of the guitar and locate your:

·         finger #2 at the 3rd fret, 6th string;

·         finger #1 at the 2nd fret, 5th string;

·         finger #3 at the 3rd fret, 2nd string;

·         finger #4 at the 3rd fret, 1st string

The D Chord:

Place your hand in the neck of the guitar and locate your:

·         finger #1 at the 2nd fret, 3rd string;

·         finger #2 at the 3rd fret, 2nd string;

·         finger #3 at the 2nd fret, 1st string

The Em Chord:

Place your hand in the neck of the guitar and locate your:

·         finger #1 at the 2nd fret, 5th string;

·         finger #2 at the 2nd fret, 4th string.

The A Chord:

Place your hand in the neck of the guitar and locate your:

·         finger #1 at 2nd fret, 2nd string;

·         finger #2 at 2nd fret, 3rd string;

·         finger #3 at 2nd fret, 4th string.

The C Chord:

Place your hand in the neck of the guitar and locate your:

·         finger # 1 at 1st fret, 2nd string;

·         finger #2 at 2nd fret, 4th string;

·         finger #3 at 3rd fret, 5th string.

Practice locating your fingers and start pressing it hardly. It should be pressed hardly because the strings won't produce sounds. Note, make sure your fingers are in curved form in order for it not to touch the unnecessary strings.