Tag: guitar playing

How to Strengthen the Fingers for Playing Guitar – Beginner Series

Guitar playing is one of the most popular ways for many people to personally play, and enjoy music. The appeal of the guitar is mostly due to its presence in practically all popular and rock music recordings. Furthermore, it’s an instrument that is very portable and versatile enough for many kinds of songs and occasions, and is practical as an accompaniment to vocalists or other instruments.

Playing the guitar requires more than the requisite musical ability, dedication and practice. A guitar player’s fingers must be dexterous and agile to allow quick single string or chord changes in rhythm or solo musical performances. The fingers also need to be tough and strong enough to be able to press the strings during quick changes to produce clean tones. Continue reading “How to Strengthen the Fingers for Playing Guitar – Beginner Series”

Learning the Parts of the Guitar – Beginner Series

The guitar is one invention that dates back more than 5000 years ago. Through the years, it has evolved into what people know today as a 6 string musical instrument for predominately right handed players. Keep in mind that left handed players are not excluded. Many guitars can be strung for left hand ease, while some are designed for left handed play exclusively.

One of the things a person needs to know before learning how to play guitar are the parts that make up the guitar. Continue reading “Learning the Parts of the Guitar – Beginner Series”

How to Properly Hold the Guitar – Beginner Series

A guitar can be an easy and fun instrument to play. Start by learning the correct method of handling the instrument. Here’s how:

Body and Posture

You must be comfortably seated, resting your back adjacent to the backrest of your chair making sure that your legs are in front and feet flat on the ground. This position is now your “footing” or support that your guitar is going to rest upon.

Picking up the guitar, hold it close to your chest or stomach ensuring that the back of the guitar’s body touches your chest and the neck’s bottom is parallel to the ground. The guitars thickest string must be directed close to the face and the thinnest string must be directed close to the ground. Continue reading “How to Properly Hold the Guitar – Beginner Series”

Guitar Playing Jargons To Master: Are They Really Worth Your Time?

Since the inception of communication, man was able to communicate with others by using symbols and actions. As man continued to develop, his knowledge continued to grow at an exceptional rate, and his communication development improved as sounds and simple words evolved.

As time passed society gradually developed small communities where people of the same class or group could relate to each other. Today communication has been transposed to a newer dimension: people are creating new words to fit their group. This is probably the reason that many musicians have created, and use musical jargon. Guitar playing jargon evolved so that guitar players could communicate within the context of their music. Continue reading “Guitar Playing Jargons To Master: Are They Really Worth Your Time?”

5 Of The Best Tips of All time For The Guitar Player

Here are 5 of the greatest tips of all time made by famous people and how they can apply to guitar playing. I’ve heard and read these tips over the years and all of them are worth their weight in gold :

1) “What You Think, You Become.” –Ghandi

I came across this quote in the book entitled “Fearless Creating”, which is written by Eric Maisel. It emphasizes the possibility that the things we try to make all begin with our ideas, and imagination. I put this quote on my wall, my notepad, everywhere I could think of, for a number of years to remind myself to keep my purpose top of mind, and it always helped me to not give in to negative thoughts. Continue reading “5 Of The Best Tips of All time For The Guitar Player”