Today was my first ever guitar class.. Infact.. my first ever music class... My trainer was a bass guitarist from a popular rock band of India and is teaching guitar and keyboard for almost 16 years now.. quite experienced I must say !!
To start off with, he gave me his guitar to practice and said that he would buy me a guitar if i wished... I nodded and asked for a few days to arrange the money...
And this is what I learnt on my very first day:
A guitar consists of 6 strings numbered 1 to 6, starting from the thinnest string numbered 1 to the thickest string numbered 6.
Each string has an alphabet associated with it:
E----------------------- thinn
est (1)
B-----------------------(2)
G-----------------------(3)
D-----------------------(4)
A-----------------------(5)
E-----------------------thickest(6)
The neck(or the fretboard) of the guitar has many frets as shown below:
By placing you fingers on proper frets.. you define chords and create music !!!
I nodded.. knowing that I would get to know this in detail in my future classes...
He told me to practice chromatics.. Chromatics simply means that you place your first finger (i.e index finger) on the first fret of E(6th string) and play that string.. Now place your middle finger on the second fret of E and play that string again.. Similarly place your third finger on third fret and fourth(i.e. pinky finger) on fouth fret and play individually.. Do these for all the strings....
Initially, when you start playing the guitar, your left hand fingers holding the strings start to sting and pain.. but with practice.. the pain vanishes and hence.. practice a lot.. The more you practice.. the more easily you will ease your pain and become an ace... I smiled and nodded.. looking at my fingers which had turned red by now just by practising the chromatics....
Moral: Know the strings of your guitar.. Practice chromatics to increase your finger strength..
To start off with, he gave me his guitar to practice and said that he would buy me a guitar if i wished... I nodded and asked for a few days to arrange the money...
And this is what I learnt on my very first day:
A guitar consists of 6 strings numbered 1 to 6, starting from the thinnest string numbered 1 to the thickest string numbered 6.
Each string has an alphabet associated with it:
E----------------------- thinn
est (1)B-----------------------(2)
G-----------------------(3)
D-----------------------(4)
A-----------------------(5)
E-----------------------thickest(6)
The neck(or the fretboard) of the guitar has many frets as shown below:
By placing you fingers on proper frets.. you define chords and create music !!!
I nodded.. knowing that I would get to know this in detail in my future classes...
He told me to practice chromatics.. Chromatics simply means that you place your first finger (i.e index finger) on the first fret of E(6th string) and play that string.. Now place your middle finger on the second fret of E and play that string again.. Similarly place your third finger on third fret and fourth(i.e. pinky finger) on fouth fret and play individually.. Do these for all the strings....
Initially, when you start playing the guitar, your left hand fingers holding the strings start to sting and pain.. but with practice.. the pain vanishes and hence.. practice a lot.. The more you practice.. the more easily you will ease your pain and become an ace... I smiled and nodded.. looking at my fingers which had turned red by now just by practising the chromatics....
Moral: Know the strings of your guitar.. Practice chromatics to increase your finger strength..
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