How to Play the Acoustic Guitar

January 28, 2009 by  
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Here are the basics and chords you will need to learn if you want o know how to play the acoustic guitar. Start from the beginning and then slowly move onto chords and eventually on to the easy acoustic guitar songs.

Acoustic Guitar Basics:

#1: Types of Acoustic Guitar
#2: Parts of an Acoustic Guitar
#3: Notes on the guitar
#4: Tuning your guitar
#5: Styles of picking
#6: The Slide
#7: The Hammer On
#8: The Pull-Off
#9: The Bend

Acoustic Guitar Chords (Major):

Open Chords
The C Major Chord

The E Major Chord
The A Major Chord
The G Major Chord
The D Major Chord

Acoustic Guitar Chords (Minor):

The E Minor Chord
The A Minor Chord
The D Minor Chord

Learning to play the Acoustic Guitar

September 7, 2008 by  
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On this site you will find free basic guitar lessons, chords and easy acoustic songs to help you learn the acoustic guitar. I started up this blog in September 2008 because after learning the acoustic guitar and playing it for two years I wanted to write some of the basics and help others learn the acoustic guitar like I did. I do have to mention that after being taught some of the absolute basics, I actually learned to play the guitar entirely from lessons online and a great course that I bough.

If you are new to the guitar then I suggest first that you learn the basics, like the parts of the guitar and then move onto to basic techniques like the hammer-on and pull off etc. Once you learn all the open chords and can play them and switch between them easily then you can try out some easy guitar songs. Learning the guitar is hard work but once you have its absolutely fantastic. I hope you find the information on this site useful and as time goes on Ill be adding more lessons and more songs to help you learn acoustic guitar.

learning the acoustic guitar

Once you have seen and understood the basics that i have on this site and you really want to take it a step further then i recommend you work your way up to the intermediate and advanced lessons through a structured course. You can try the one i used which took me from a scratchy player getting confused and frustrated with all the “free” advanced lessons out there. You can check out the Jamorama review i wrote and see if that program works out for you.

Open Chords

September 7, 2008 by  
Filed under chords, featured

In this post we’re going to look at open guitar chords. Chords are formed by placing your fingers on one more frets and strumming the guitar. Open guitar chords are the most basic and fundamental of everything you learn when you start off learning to play a guitar . This is definitely the first thing every guitarist should learn because it is the foundation for so many songs, you would be surprised how many really popular songs are just three open chords. I have to warn you though, they are not easy to play. It takes a lot of time and a lot of practice to be able to play well and change between them quickly. It seems tough at first but keep playing and eventually it becomes much easier until you can play them and switch between them without even looking at the guitar.

The best advice to start off with is to put your fingers into these positions and playing the chord, play it once, play it twice and get a feel for it, and try to keep your fingers away from the other string that way you can minimize any additional noise. This will definitely take some practice. Chords like C, E, Em, A, Am and Dm aren’t too bad and it shouldn’t take you too long to get used to them. Just remember, practice is everything.

When you are eventually used to playing some of these chords, find some easy guitar songs and try playing along or just strumming as practice.

Learn guitar chords (Major):

The C Major Chord
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The E Major Chord
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The A Major Chord
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The G Major Chord
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The D Major Chord
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Learn guitar chords (minor):

The E Minor Chord
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The A Minor Chord
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The D Minor Chord
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