How can i learn guitar by myself

Let's start with something simple that works wonders. When you shop for a guitar, make sure you buy one that you find beautiful. Falling in love with your guitar is the first step towards wanting to play on it often.

You also want to get a guitar stand and keep it out where you can see it, which will also get you to grab it more often. Learn to read guitar tablature. Learning how to read tabs early on will really help you in learning guitar. What are tabs? They are an easier type of written music notation for guitar. Tabs are everywhere, they are more popular than standard music notation for guitarists.

You'll be able to find the tabs to any song ever written after a Google search, which makes learning the songs you love so much easier. Learn the basic chords perfectly. You might be surprised to find out that using a few basic guitar chords, you'll already be able to play thousands of songs on your guitar.

Teach yourself those chords and practice them diligently to perfect them. Learn a few strumming patterns. There are only a finite number of chords and notes, but playing them differently varies music in infinite ways. Learn not 1 or 2, but as many strumming patterns in as many styles of music as you can.

This will make you a versatile guitar player. Changing in between chords. Learning how to change between chords will seem difficult at first, but it's just a matter of practice. Learn the basic chord shapes first, then learn to change in between them. You'll be doing it blindfolded before you know it.

Aching fingertips. Your fingertips will hurt at first, which is normal. With enough practice, you will develop hardened skin on your fingertips. These are called calluses. When you initially start learning guitar, you'll only be able to play for minutes before your fingers hurt so much that you need to stop. Wherever that is, it's where your guitar should be.

Before you even get started, make a big list of songs you want to learn to play. For thousands of years, humans have made music together. Making music is interesting, because much of the practice we do is in solitude, but most of us ultimately want to end up playing with other people.

Pick songs to learn every week or two, get together, and play. Make your own arrangements of the songs, sing them, make harmonies, and have fun.

I believe that music is meant to be shared. It gets your practicing and perfecting the little things that you otherwise might let slide. Finding open mics is pretty easy, tons of bars host them on Mondays and Tuesdays to bring people in. Be friendly and meet other people who have a passion for music. Anything worth learning is going to be challenging.

Figure out what parts of guitar playing you love, and focus on that first. If that means playing in a band, releasing cover videos, playing open mics, or writing your own songs — great. Do it. Remember though, none of what you've learned will matter if you don't know how to get your music out there and earn from it.

Want to learn how to do that? Many guitarists focus heavily on their fretting hand instead of their picking hand. This is natural, especially early on, when a player must make a deliberate effort to get their fretting hand and fingers in the right position, doing the right things.

The best part is once you have mastered these concepts and the basics, you will learn new songs VERY quickly. In a few months you will be able to pick up new songs to add to your repertoire with ease. This is what really drives us here at Center Stage.

Picking out a few YouTube videos of popular songs is a great addition to your learning schedule, but using a program like ours will teach you the real ins and outs of playing guitar. Not to mention, you will learn all of your favorite songs along the way. The beauty of using an online program is that you can fit lessons into YOUR schedule. This means you can play late at night, after work, on the weekends, during a lunch break, in the morning, between classes, literally any time.

Although this is great, I highly recommend setting aside some structured time to get into new lessons. Setting aside an hour or so a couple times a week is a good start. This gives you a structured base, and you can squeeze in all of your other learning time when your schedule allows. I suggest getting an inexpensive digital tuner and learning how to use it.

But you should really learn to tune by ear. Using the digital tuner or a piano, pitch pipe, tuning fork or whatever else you have you can tune your low-E string to concert pitch.

Then, using the low-E, which you now know is in tune, you begin to tune the rest of your guitar. This is easier than it sounds. I will explain below, but I've also created a separate article on how to tune your guitar by ear that goes into the process more thoroughly.

Each open guitar string is the exact same note as the 5 th fret note of the string before it. Therefore, the open 5 th string A is the same note as the 5 th fret on the 6 th string also A.

If it is not, adjust the tuning key for the 5th string until the open string note sounds the same as the 5th fret note on the 6th string. You will repeat this with every string until your entire guitar is in tune. The only exception to this rule is the 2 nd string B , which you will tune to the 4 th fret of the 3 rd string B again. Learning to tune your guitar this way helps you tremendously when it comes to getting an ear for music.

Personally, I also think my guitar sounds better when I tune it by ear. Making sure your guitar is always in tune has one more benefit, and it comes in the form of one of the great epiphanies I ever had as a young guitar player: As long as your guitar is in tune, you can theoretically play anything you hear another guitar player play.

In other words, all of the guitar gods throughout music history played an instrument essentially like the one you own. The same notes and chords they play are available on your guitar, and while it may take a lot of hard work on your part, you can play them too if you want to. He was only trying to kill a Grizzly Bear with a stick, which may seem easier than copping Eddie Van Halen. Paraphrasing and putting this in terms that work for us: What one guitar player can do another can do. Really, the deciding factor is how hard you want to work at it.

For now, you need to get some basics under your belt. When it comes to guitar, there sure are a lot of basics. Your road as a guitar player will be a long one no matter what, and you can spend a lifetime playing and practicing and never truly master the instrument. However, I think one of the things that most frustrates new guitarists is the attention to detail instructors sometimes spend when teaching the basics.

I recall starting off learning three notes on the E string. Important for sure, but as a new guitarist you want to play. There are several goals here: First, you want to learn the correct way to hold the guitar and the pick, and the correct way to strum.

Bad form is a habit that is hard to break, so you want to start off right. Secondly, you are going to build up a vocabulary of basic chords. Mentally, you can learn all of these chords in a week if you work at it.

Physically, it will take a long time to get good at them. Your fingers will not be used to contorting in such positions and you are going to have to be patient until your muscles catch up to your brain.

You can sit staring blankly at a wall and strumming each of these chords for hours every week if you want to. There is a much more fun way to work on your chords and improve your playing. You want to play music!

Some young players get the idea that you have to first master basic chords and scales before you can move on to playing songs you know by bands you love. Not so. Of course, if you are into classical music, progressive metal or jazz that may be true, but you might be surprised to know that much of the rock and country music you hear is based around very simple chord progressions.

By learning some of these songs and playing them you are working on your chords in the context of real music. This is a great way to learn new chords and expand your knowledge. Once again I emphasize: This will not be easy. You will stumble and bumble and possibly curse a lot.

Learning guitar is hard work, no matter how you do it. But at least you will get a little inspiration from learning songs you like instead of taking lessons for months just to learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on one string. This line is different for each new guitarist. Some may work on basic chords for years and be happy enough with that. Others may dive neck-deep into some fairly difficult music and thrive on the challenge it provides.

If you need a starting point, there are some excellent easy songbooks out there for beginners. These will provide enough of a challenge while helping you to play real music you will enjoy. The Guitar Tab White Pages series has long been among my favorite collections of music. There are many different versions covering every genre and style. There's even an Easy Guitar version available that's perfect for newbie guitarists.

While you can start playing real songs on guitar relatively quickly, getting deeper into the instrument takes even more work. You are eventually going to want to be able to play solos and possibly even learn how to improvise. This means working on your fretting and picking-hand dexterity. Another much simpler method is the daily practice of a drill called the Chromatic Exercise.

Incidentally, this movement up the neck of one fret a time or half-step is called the Chromatic Scale , which is where this exercise gets its name. When you are done with the sixth string, move to the fifth string and do the same. When you are done with the fifth, then move to the fourth, then the third, then the second, and finally the first string.