Want To Learn Guitar? This Is A Place For You!

Guitar! Its sound makes environment melodious and that feeling can't explain in words. some combination of chords and arrangements make a music like no one else. Everyone loves music, no doubts. why not make your own music? Even though everyone loves the guitar but very less think of exploring that music at deeper levels! This article is all about Guitar, melody, music.
To me, Guitar is the easiest thing to learn as a beginner and hardest thing to play as a professional.You can use a guitar to play anything from heavy metal to classical and everything in between. Learning to play guitar is more approachable than many other instruments, once you master a few basics,so anyways guys let come to the original title of this article. Let's PLAY GUITAR.

Here are 10 steps to play guitar like a professional.

Step 1: Learn About Guitar.
The very first step to play the guitar is learning about guitar, learning about the parts of the guitar and what that instrument is made of which you are further playing.

The strings run between the headstock of the guitar, where they are affixed tuning pegs that can be rotated to tighten and slacken them, and the bridge, where they're fixed to the guitar's body. On an acoustic guitar, the strings are fixed to the bridge with removable pegs, and on an electric guitar, the strings are generally strung through an eyelet. The neck of the guitar is the long wooden piece of wood, flat on one side (this is called the fretboard) and curved on the other. The fretboard is inlaid with metal frets that demarcate the different notes. An acoustic guitar will have a sound hole in the body where the sound will resonate, while an electric guitar will have as many as three magnetic pickups which will channel the sound through an amplifier.

Step2: How To Hold A Guitar.

Remember to breathe. It’s easy for your body to get tense when you do something as awkward as playing guitar for the first time. This tenseness builds up without your even realizing it. Take a break every so often, and just breathe. Even if you do everything right, playing might seem uncomfortable at first. It should not be painful, though. If you sense any pain at any time, stop immediately. Before long, your desire to play will make not holding the guitar feel uncomfortable. Choose a chair or seat with the right height. You’ll know it’s the right height because, when you sit, your thigh will be angled just slightly upward. Some players pick any chair and raise their guitar knee by putting their guitar foot on a stool or stack of phone books. The point is to raise the guitar high enough so your hand can get to the frets. It gets really tiring to play by putting your guitar foot on tiptoe all the time. It also gets tiring when you hunch your entire upper body over so you can see the frets. If you’re right-handed, put the guitar on your right knee. Note: classical guitarists would use their left knee. It’s tempting to tilt the guitar so you can see the frets, but don’t do it. Keep the guitar straight. The neck of the guitar should be angled slightly upward as it extends away from your body. Now for the fretting hand. Practice making what I call “the claw“ with your left hand. This means putting your left thumb halfway between the bottom of the guitar’s neck, and the top of the neck. It’s tempting to grab the guitar like you were grabbing a hammer, with the thumb wrapping over the top, but you won’t be able to hit all the notes that way. To make the claw, keep the thumb at that halfway point on the neck, and crook your wrist as if you were trying to make your fingertips hook over the top of the neck. If all of this seems too complicated, go for these simplified instructions: look at pictures of how other guitarists hold their guitar, and do what feels comfortable for you.

Step 3: How To Tune The Guitar.

 It's no fun to play the guitar that's not in tune and can lead to some bad habits when you're first starting out. Tuning regularly will also familiarize you with which string and fret combinations correspond with which notes.First, learn the name of each string. From the lowest to highest pitch (thickest to thinnest strings) the strings are named E, A, D, G, B, and E (after the note played when the string is plucked with no fingers touching it). Use a mnemonic to remember this order, such as Eddie Ate Dynamite God Bless Eddie. Electric tuners are easy to use and very accurate. Hold it to the guitar and pluck the high E. The tuner will tell you if the guitar is "sharp" (too high) or "flat" (too low). Pick each note and tighten the string to make it go higher, or give it some slack to lower it. Make sure the room is quiet when using a tuner because the microphone on the tuner can pick up other sounds.

If you cannot afford a tuner, you can also tune your guitar without one by matching each note to the corresponding note on the piano.

Step 4: Practice Fretting And How To Hold A Pick.

as told earlier frets are the steel bars at the neck of a guitar. one must know how much pressure to apply on the particular fret at the corresponding string to get a perfect tone. i.e it should not be a low pitch or a high pitch. The tone you are getting from that particular fret combines to make a proper key. keys are explained later in this article. Every time you move from one fret to another, the resulting pitch will be half a step higher as you move toward the body and a half step lower as you move toward the headstock. Practice moving up and down the fretboard, pressing the frets and getting a feel for the pressure you need to use to play a note.

Hold the pick. A pick, or plectrum, is a small tear-shaped piece of plastic used for picking out individual notes and strumming the guitar. They're cheap and available at any music retailer. While it's not essential to learn to play guitar with a pick, it's most generally the way to start.

Make a fist with your picking hand and your thumb flat on top of your curled fingers. Hold the pick by grasping it perpendicular to your fist between your thumb and index finger, with no more than a few centimeters of the smaller end sticking out of your hand.

Step 5: Learn The Chords.

A chord is a harmonic group of at least three notes. For beginning guitar, there are two basic chord types: first position chords, and barre chords. First position chords can be played with a combination of open strings and pressed strings in the first three frets of the guitar.

• Commonly major chords are C Major, A Major, G Major, E Major, D Major.
• When you've got the shapes down, practice switching between them as quickly as you can. Write out more or less random arrangements of the chords you want to play and switch between them, strumming once.
• Make sure you play the appropriate notes. In A Major, for example, the low E string is not strummed. They'll be marked on the tablature with an "X". Develop good habits now for success in the long run.

So Chords goes like this:-

• C-chord: Place your ring finger on the third fret of the second thickest string. Place your middle finger on the second fret of the third thickest, and your index finger on the first fret of the second thinnest. Strum. Then, go back and play each string individually, while still playing the chord. Make sure each string rings out clearly. If it doesn't, check to see what's wrong, fix it, and keep trying. After you've done this, you have mastered C - Major.
• A major: Take your index, middle, and ring finger, and place them on the second frets of the second, third and fourth thinnest strings on the guitar. This is the A major chord. Play each string individually to make sure you have it. Congratulations, you have now learned two chords.
• G chord: Place your middle finger on the third fret of the thickest string. Place your index finger on the second fret of the second thickest string, and your ring finger on the third fret of the thinnest string. Make sure each string rings out clearly. If it isn't, check to see what is wrong, and fix it.
• E Major:This is one of the easiest chords there is. Place your middle and ring fingers on the second frets of the second and third thickest strings. Your index finger should go on the first fret of the third thinnest string.
• D Major (the last of the basic chords you should know): Place your index finger on the second fret of the third thinnest string. Place your middle finger on the third fret of the thinnest. Place your ring finger on the third fret of the second thinnest.
• E minor: This is exactly like E major, except you don't use your index finger. Put your middle and ring fingers on the second frets of the second and third thickest strings. Voila, you can play one of the deepest chords there is.
• A minor: Again, this is very similar to A Major, but the difference isn't quite as obvious as with E Major/Minor. Place your middle and ring fingers on the second frets of the third and fourth thickest strings, and your index on the first fret of the second thinnest. This is basically E Major moved over.
• D minor: Again, very similar to D Major. Place your middle finger on the second fret of the third thinnest string. Place your index finger on the first fret of the thinnest, and your ring finger on the third fret of the second thinnest.

Step 6: Get A Clean Sound. After you had placed all your fingers on the fretboard, play through each of the strings of the chords. Make sure that the strings that are supposed to ring are not muffled or muted. If the notes are not ringing out properly, chances are that you are not pressing hard enough or parts of your fingers are touching that string which prevents it from sounding out clearly. Are any unused fingers touching strings? Keep the fretting fingers curled at all times they're touching the strings as if you had your fingers resting over an imaginary glass ball, or a marble in the knuckle of each finger.

Step 7: Strum In A Rythm.

The real deal is how to strum to extract that melodious and rhythmic sound of a guitar. the most common mistake a guitarist made while playing the guitar is improper and asynchronised strumming. A wrong strum can make it sound worse. lets learn how to strum.

• Use a thin pick.
• Hold the guitar pick properly. The pick should be nearly perpendicular to the strings. I personally like to hold the pick at an angle of around 110-120 degrees against the strings.
• Play directly over the guitar’s sound hole (if you are using an acoustic guitar). Once you master a few strumming patterns, try playing closer to the bridge or the neck. Did you notice any changes in the pitch and ‘thickness’ of the produced sound?
• Ensure that each string is ringing correctly. Don’t worry about playing chords while you practice basic strumming patterns. Just make sure that you hit all the strings.
• Learn to keep time. The most basic time signature is 4/4. That equals to four beats every movement (these are music theory terms. Look them up for a better understanding of rhythm).
• Keep your wrist free and relaxed. The picking motion depends on the flexibility of the wrist, especially for more advanced rhythms. Practice playing with just a motion of the wrist without moving your arm.

Step 8: Learn How To Read Guitar Tabs. Guitarists have their own system of music notation called guitar tablature, or guitar tabs for short. The basic idea is to look at each line in the "staff" of the tab in the same way you look at your guitar; each line really corresponds to a string, and each number tells you which fret to hold down when plucking that string.

• E|-------------------------------------------------||
• B|-------3---------3----------3--------------------||
• G|---------2---------0--------0---------------2p0--||
• D|-0-0------------------------0--0----0h2p0--------||
• A|------------3-3-------------2---0p2-------0------||
• E|-----------------------3-3--3--------------------||

To play this tab-notated lick from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Sweet Home Alabama," you would play two notes on the open D string, the B string at the third fret, the G string at the second fret, etc.
Switching between lead-style licks and chords is exciting. You'll feel like you're really making music and not just "learning guitar." But don't rush it, make sure you've got your chord shapes down correctly and that you're not losing the rhythm entirely when you play a quick lick.

Step 9: Learn To Play Songs. So this is what you all are here for! yeah, everybody want to play a song on this instrument. It's a whole lot more fun to play when you're playing a song that you can recognize and not just a set of chords or notes, and there has been a whole world of music written with the chords G, C, and D. Some old folk and country songs like "Tom Dooley" or "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash can be great ways to start. It's just three chords and the truth, as songwriter Harlan Howard once famously put it. Start off slow and speed up gradually, singing along (if you want to, and if it helps) and pay particular attention to the rhythm. It can be kind of frustrating how mechanical it will sound at first, but don't worry. The more comfortable you get switching between the chords, the closer you'll be to rocking out on stage. As you master easier songs, move on to more complex pieces. "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is basically a repetition of D, C, and G in that order, but it sounds much more complex on the record, because of the cool-sounding lead guitar licks the guitar player throws in.

Step 10. Take Tips From Professionals.

so when you are a little bit confident about this instrument, dont hesitate to talk with professionals.athey got the key points and they know all of the tips and tricks which are going to help you in the future.  Guitar is best learned by watching, listening, and mimicking the techniques of others. You don't have to take formal lessons to learn guitar, but having friends to play with and share tricks and suggestions with can be a great resource.YouTube tutorials can be extremely helpful for beginners and for advanced players alike. Being able to actually watch Stevie Ray Vaughn rip through one of those solos, or watch how Jack Johnson plays your favorite song up close can be a great learning experience. If you'd like to play classical or jazz guitar eventually, or even if you'd like to learn to read sheet music, formal lessons would be a good idea. Teaching yourself is a great way of developing your own style, which can be very difficult to learn to break with somewhere down the road and replace with "correct" style.

And yes dont forrget the most crucial step of this article! 

PRACTICE |PRACTICE |PRACTICE (do it again and again until your fingers hurts and your guitar sounds like heaven)

HAPPY PLAYING :)