Do you want to learn how to play the guitar? If you do, please read on: this is how you can teach yourself guitar with three easy steps.
First, you need to get a guitar. You do not need an expensive one though. You can buy a second hand guitar. As long as the action is good – the strings’ height above the neck, that would work just fine. If you’re not sure, ask a guitar-playing friend for help. Now you may be asking, “Why can’t I just borrow my friend’s guitar”. Well you can, but you should still buy one for yourself because one day, you are going to have to return the borrowed instrument to its rightful owner. By purchasing your own guitar, you know that it is yours and yours only. That gives you the freedom to develop a connection with your guitar. It’s also important to choose the guitar that’s right for you, depending on what style of music you want to play: classical, folk, blues, rock, jazz, and all the different genres that evolved from these. Sites like this one may help.
The second step would be for you to sign up for a guitar class, including online lessons. With online classes, no need to travel to the lesson venue. That eliminates the traveling expenses. Furthermore, most guitar classes online come in the form of video tutorials, which I appreciate. That enables me to pause, rewind, and replay the videos on a later date, eliminating lessons’ fixed time slots. Online guitar tutorials are really effective, so I hope you will give this a go. However, for a beginner, it may be better to find the right guitar teacher in order to avoid acquiring bad habits in posture, fingers’ position or else.
You may have heard the saying that practice makes perfect. This may sound like a cliché to you, but I want to emphasize on how important it is to practice playing your guitar. I recommend that you spend at least 30 minutes every day practicing and reviewing what you have learnt so far. Start off by playing the songs that your course instructor has chosen for you. Be sure that you get the basic fingering techniques right. As you get better and better, you can move on to more challenging songs. Do note that this is a learning journey and you will not become a rock star overnight.
I hope you have a better idea of how you can learn to play the guitar. Remember to have fun while you learn!