Sitting PositionsThere are two sitting positions for holding the guitar; classical and casual.
1. Pick up the guitar and make sure that the guitar body is supported by your leg.
2. Position yourself at the edge of your chair.
3. Ensure that your back is relaxed but straight.
4. Lean the guitar back towards you slightly.
Standing Position
1. Pick up the guitar and place the strap over your shoulder. Adjust the strap so that the guitar is positioned mid-body.
2. Use your left hand to support the neck of the guitar.
3. Rest your right hand over the bridge of the guitar.
Hand Positions
It is important that you relax your wrists and hands. Straining them can cause injury
The correct way to hold the guitar with ur hands is :
Fretting
When you play the guitar, you use your left hand fingers to press down the strings on the fret board
of the guitar and use your right hand to pluck or strum the stings at the bridge end of the guitar.
Using your left hand to press the strings on the fret board is called fretting. Here are some tips you will need to know:
1. Short fingernails are essential.
2. Use only the tips of your fingers to press the strings.
3. When making a chord, be sure that each fingertip is placed directly behind the fret. We will cover chords in lesson one.
4. Check each string that it rings clearly and is not muted or buzzing.
As a beginner guitarist, it may hurt your fingers to play. This is normal. Every guitarist starts this way for the first couple of weeks. With practice, you will develop guitar fingers (hard skin on your fingertips).
The First Thing we have to know before playing the guitar is the strings and the frets
This Guitar Fret Board Chart shows us how to play the correct notes on the guitar :)
Next chart is the Chords :)
These are the Basic Chords , apart from these u can learn all the other chords that are available in the chart below to play like a pro
The Dots in the above chart shows the position of the fingers on the fret board to play that particular chord :)
Strike the chords well, u will be off to great guitar playing :)
Next is How to Tune a Guitar Manually
Check this video to learn how to tune a guitar , This is Marty Schwartz one of the best online guitar tutors , I have Learn Many Songs from watching his videos :)
Guitar tab basics
We'll start off with the absolute basics of guitar tab, how to read the notes. Guitar TAB consists of six lines, each line represents a guitar string. The lines are laid out as though you had the guitar lying down face up on your lap and were looking down at it, presuming you are a right handed player.
The vertical lines represent each bar and each bar is one measure. Because each line represents a guitar string, writing tabs is as simple as writing the fret number on each string. The horizontal axis equals time so you play each note on the fretboard from left to right.
The numbers on the fretboard below show the exact note order in which you would play the above tab.
Because the horizontal axis equals time, chords will have their notes shown in the same vertical line. The Guitar tab below shows how an A minor chord strummed four times in one measure.
So far so good, reading the notes from the guitar tab is easy enough, what we need to know now is the timing / rhythm information and how to read various guitar techniques such as slides, bends pull offs etc. This will depend on the various types of guitar tabs. Let's take a look at these before moving onto the more advanced parts of reading TABS.
Various types of guitar tab
Three main types of guitar tab are the ASCII Tab, plain tab with rhythm information and Tab with notation.
Ascii Guitar TAB
First let's take a look at ASCII Tab, this is quite a common type of guitar tab found on guitar forums. The thing that makes this kind of Tab unique is the whole thing uses simple text to reperesent ordinary Tab. Here is an example of the same chromatic run shown above but text generated.
As handy as this kind of Tab is, it has some drawbacks.
- If a monospaced font isn't used then the whole thing can become an unreadable mess.
- It relies on a standard which is fine for fret numbers but can get messy when we need to show techniques like bends, vibrato etc.
- Rarely used with timing / rhythm information.
Basic Guitar Tab
Next we have basic guitar tab with timing information. This TAB lets us know the time signature and the note duration so that we know whether we should play quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets etc. This kind of Tab needs to be in image format for the web. It's also used a lot in books and magazines.
Guitar TAB with notation
This is the ultimate kind of guitar tab, we get two staffs. One with full notation and the other with basic tab like the one above.
As we can see, guitar tabs with note timing value makes a lot more sense. Even though most text style of tabs you find on the internet has no indication of note duration, it is still possible to include it to an extent. Ascii tab exported from Guitar-Pro for instance does show note duration by placing text above the TAB. Here is an example of guitar Tab exported from Guitar-Pro using the same chromatic run as above played with eighth notes. The 'E' indicates an eighth note.
Guitar-Pro Guitar Tab Legend
NOW ALL U HAVE TO DO IS TO PRACTICE GUITAR EVERYDAY TO IMPROVE UR PLAYING AND LISTEN TO UR HEART WHILE PLAYING , U WILL FIND THE BEST MUSIC IN U :)
