Lesson one: Knowing your guitar
Every guitar has a neck(the long peace with lines or frets), a body(the bottom of the guitar that is flat and has the bridge or the peace that holds the strings), and a head( the top peace of the guitar that has your tuning pegs on it)
Lesson two: Tuning your guitar
The best method for easy tuning method is called the FIFTH FRET TUNING METHOD (your frets are the spaces between the lines on the guitars neck.) Although you have to tune the sixth string first but then you can hold the string above the string you want to tune on the fifth fret and it well sound as if they where the same string that is how you know if they are in tune, if they don't sound the same that's how you know that they are out of tune. Also the strings are go EADgbe. The capital letters are the low pitched strings and the lower case letters are the high pitched strings. These are also known as the open strings.
Lesson three: knowing the two types of music
There are two types of music, there is TAB and then there is Chords. Tablature(TAB) is showing you the frets on the neck will the Chords show the actual notes such as Majors and Minors.
TAB:
Chords:
Lesson four:picking and plucking the strings
As you may know you have six strings on your guitar;
when FINGER PLUCKING you have your thumb plucking the top strings (strings 6 5 and 4) and your middle finger plucking the bottom three strings (strings 3 2 and 1)
When picking with pick you can ether hold the pick with your thumb and your middle finger or you can hold it with your thumb and your pointer finger. To us a pick you just pretty much tap the the string with the pick i guess you could say.
another way you can do it is to rest the thumb two strings above the string you want to play such as shown below.
Lesson five: Slides
a guitar slide can be worn on any finger that suits you. They can also be made of many materials(the first type of guitar slides where the tops to bottles, warning though the people who made these had experience for crafting slides and had the tools to make the slide safe, you are best off just buying one.)Each different type of material has its own unique sound. Many songs use slide such as "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked By Cage The Elephant." A slide is extremely easy to use once you get used to them. But no worries you don't have to use slides it just notch's your sound to give it a nice cool sound.To use a slide all you do is slide the slide up and down the guitars neck.( a slide is represented on tabs as a / or \ as shown in the picture below.
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Lesson six: power chords(TAB)
Power chords can be seen in tabs as two fret numbers one on top of the other this is played pretty much the same as simple tab but with two fingers as one for 7 over 5 as in the picture it would 5 and 6 string 5th fret on 6th string and 7th fret on 5th string and that would be a simple power chord. Your lead fret is the lower fret so 7 on 5 your lead is 5th fret so this means if you wants say to have 6 fret turned to power chord you would probably put another finger on 8th fret on a string above or below the string that has 6th string held on it.
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