Clueless about the Guitar?
Pojo asked:
Today I visited the music store cause my brother needed to buy a metronome…and I started to read a guitar chord book. Then I looked at their selection of guitars, which were at a pretty fair price..so now I’m interested in playing the guitar.
Today I visited the music store cause my brother needed to buy a metronome…and I started to read a guitar chord book. Then I looked at their selection of guitars, which were at a pretty fair price..so now I’m interested in playing the guitar.
My Musical Background:
1. Been playing the piano for 7+ years (I’m going to turn 14 in a month)
2. I’m really good at sight reading
3. Never had any other instrument experience besides piano + a bit of percussion
I’m too lazy to take private/group lessons, so is it possible to teach myself how to strum the guitar correctly using the Internet (YouTube!) and a beginning guitar book? Because I don’t want to continue down the wrong path…
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yeah you’re good. if you are coordinated enough to play a different part with each hand this will be a snap. Learn your theory and the instrument itself, and the chord fingerings and scales will just have to come with practice, because the tuning is not as straightforward as piano. E A D G B E is standard.
Learn How to Sight Read Music
… filled with a lot of info on how to play just about any song you want, from beginner to advanced. use that with youtube instructions, and you should be able to pick it up
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I did the same (except i sucked at sight reading). Guitar tabs are much easier to read as they are just numbers. I like guitar much better as the difference is that the guitar can make a note sound so different in many ways (harmonics, different fret positions, hammer-ons/pull-offs, slides, bends, vibratos, palm muting, etc.) whereas in piano it’s just the note and you play it.
You can definitely use the internet. Get your technique up and learn LOTS of songs. That’s how you get better. ultimate-guitar.com is a great resource and youtube is too.