The best beginner guitars are, in my opinion, is any guitar you can get your hands on when you’re learning. Now there are guitars that are made with the beginner in mind (which I will cover briefly below), but honestly any guitar you can get is great to learn with.
When I first started, I played with my mom’s old nylon string guitar. These guitars are great for finger-pickers,but it wasn’t that great to learn on due to the neck being much larger than your average guitar.
I eventually got a hold of a very cheap electric guitar which worked out well for me because the neck was thing and helped my small hands and fingers.
Later, I picked up a cheap acoustic guitar with a hard back that would allow me to bang it around. And bang it around I did! I didn’t know how to correctly care for a guitar at the time so it was a good guitar for me.
When you eventually get good and serious about guitar, that’s when you begin to save your money so that you can purchase a great guitar that will last you for a life time. I have both an amazing electric and acoustic guitar that I now use.
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Today’s article is all about keeping the guitar clean. I’ve found this to be an important task that’s often overlooked by most guitar players.
Cleaning a guitar is essential to keeping it in good condition and looking well for years. A well-maintained guitar produces impeccable sounds.
Ideally, a guitar should be cleaned after each playing session. The reason for this is that your hands are oily which makes it really easy to transfer oils and dirt onto the guitar parts.
Because of this, it’s important that you wash your hands before each playing session to minimize the amount of dirt and oil that you transfer onto the guitar.
Depending on how often you use it, you should clean visible parts like the body, strings, headstock, and frets every playing session.
Famous guitarists have their guitars cleaned and serviced by professionals known as guitar technicians or simply, guitar techs.
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If you’re a beginner and picking up a guitar for the first time, this guitar starter guide should help you get started for the first time.
Guitar Sitting Positions
There are 2 common sitting positions when playing guitar: regular and classical.
I’ll be discussing the regular position since a lot of country music is played using this position.
Simply rest the guitar on your leg so that your picking hand comfortably rests near the open area on the body. Your other hand should be able to reach all the way down the neck comfortably.
Sit at an edge of a chair and keep your back straight. Do not get in the habit of slouching over the guitar. This is bad posture and is a bad habit that you don’t want to start.
You can always sir on the bed and play when you’ve got a special someone over…
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Guitar Tablature, also known as Tab in the guitar world, is how musicians and guitar players alike write out their music to songs, leads, exercises and more.
Unlike traditional music notation, guitar tab is different because it doesn’t use much of any symbols.
This allows anyone without any musical background the ability to read and write guitar tab without knowing music theory and symbols.
It’s easy to learn and is universally recognized around the globe as the standard for reading guitar music.
In the previous lesson on guitar tuning, I talked about the names or each string. You have two E strings, a D, G, B, and A.
Tab is directly related to these strings so it’s important that you have memorized what each string is. Spend time learning each string because it’s important.
Let’s begin by taking a look at this image below. You’ll notice that it has the number 1-6 instead of the actual note of the string.
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Welcome to the first course in our guitar chords lessons series where I’m going to teach you how to play the G chord.
As you may know from my previous article about learning guitar chords, I stress the importance of warming up.
I know you’re probably tired of me saying it, but please check out my less on guitar warm-up. In it, you will learn a simple but highly effective warm-up exercise that should be done before every playing session, whether it’s practice or an actual concert.
All big-time guitarists have their favorite warm-up exercises that they do before shows.
Do this exercise before beginning this lesson and all other lessons as it will loosen your hands up and prepare your muscles for playing.
::: Grabs a drink while you warm-up. 5 minutes later… :::
Ok, I hope your hands are all nice and loose and ready to play. That’s the idea of the warm-up!
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