June 11, 2011

Have Fun Playing Guitar Tips

Love your guitar. Make sure your hands are clean enough to pick and finger notes. It would be better to wash and thoroughly dry your hands before picking up and playing the guitar notes. Make sure your fingernails are short enough to make yourself feel comfortable when fretting notes on the fingerboard. It would be uncomfortable if your nail hitting the board before your fingertip.
Do stretches on your finger and warm ups before playing the guitar chords. Do it by slowly fretting tones fret by fret on each string without wimpy down-strokes or up-strokes. Just a warm ups.
Make sure you always use the proper techniques when playing the guitar chords. Just stop and give it a little rest when you feel big pain or something wrong in the wrist or arm, and you can go back to it later when you feel fresh with your arm or wrist. The proper techniques are your fret hand is always close to the chord fret board, wrist is down, fingers not flying out of position, fingers cupped and on your fingertips when fretting notes and chords. Feel relax on your thumb.
Playing slow and comfort is always better than playing fast and sloppy. Play it usually and speed will come in time.
Be patient. It takes time to get your fingers (muscles) used to fretting chords and tones. Try to memorize each chord that you played.
Spare 15 or 20-minute of time to play guitar and play whenever you want to play.
Make your ears usual to hear each tone on guitar. It will develop your ears and your feeling.
Wipe down your guitar neck and guitar fret board after playing, to keep your guitar neck clean and your guitar fret board clean. This keeps prolong string life.
Share with your friends which is guitarist or other who played guitar about what you learned in guitar lesson. It will help you to get more vision on guitar.
One of the important things you need to know when learning guitar is STRUCTURE a.k.a. SCALES PATTERN.
Yes, it is important to know some theory but the most important is how to apply it on the instrument.

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