It’s important that everyone should be able to play a musical instrument and i’ll like to give you some tips on playing the guitar(acoustic).
The fear of most parents in this generation is that if their child/children learn an instrument they may not want to go to school again, that their children will pursue a musical career. Sadly, this kind of mindset makes the youth vunerable to evil vices.
The acoustic guitar is a string instrument and has 6 strings of different strength. Each of the strings give off a different sound when plucked.
The guitar is made up of the head, the neck and the body. The Head being where the strings are attached to; the Neck is where you find the frets and the finger boards and the Body is where the somewhat circular opening is found that amplifies the song produced by the plucking or strumming of the strings.
The guitar is held with the neck on your left hand and the body on your right-hand side, you’ll see the importance of this soon. The strings from the top to bottom are E A D G B E. Yes the “E” is two because the first is a high E and the Other is a low “E”.
The guitar frets are numbered as seen above, this numbering is fixed and counting starts from begining of the neck.
As this is not a tutorial site i will go straight to teaching you your first four chords. The G chord, D chord, E minor and Cchord. With these four chords, you can play almost any song.
Your left hand is numbered in this format 1-4. This is done because some of the musical notes make use of this number system. Remember i told you about the 6 strings? And holding the neck on your left side? Read below and see the importance in chord formation
For the G chord,
this chord is played with your second finger on the sixth string of the 3rd fret, first finger fifth string of the 2nd fret and third and fourth finger on the second and first string of the 3rd fret respectively.
N.B : the strings are numbered 1-6 from the bottom to the top. I Know it may not be easy to understand at first, but it will be in time.
For the D chord,
the first finger on the third string of the second fret, the second finger on the first string of the 2nd fret, the third finger on the second string of the 3rd fret.
For the E minor chord,
the second finger on the fifth string of the 2nd fret, the third finger on the fourth string of the same 2nd fret.
For the C chord,
the first finger on the second string of the 1st first, the second finger on the fourth string of the 2nd fret, and the third finger on the fifth string of the 3rd fret.
With these four chords, you can start your guitar campaign, for more tutorials or any questions that need answering, drop a comment and i’ll be sure to get back to you.
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