Playing the guitar is a great hobby to pick up.   There’s nothing better than performing in front of your friends and family by playing some popular songs.  Unfortunately, it can be difficult to learn guitar for beginners especially if you don’t have anyone to teach you.  There are many who have tried to learn the guitar and failed to learn enough to play the easiest guitar songs.  Those are the people who quit right away.

To be successful learning the guitar, you need to start with the basics.  First off, you will need to figure out how to tune your guitar, otherwise anything you play will sound awful.  Without tuning your guitar consistently, the strings will become stretched and sound distorted.  The standard tuning for a guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E.  Although there are other tunings, it is best to start with this one first.

Once your guitar is in tune, you can now use it to start playing some notes.  To play a note, take one of the strings, and press down on it on one of the frets with one finger, and pluck at the string with your other hand.  Experiment with different frets on the same string. Congratulations, you are playing the guitar.

With this newfound ability to play notes on your guitar, the next step is to figure out how to play some basic chords.  Using a guitar chord chart, try to find a few chords that you can play.  It will take some time before you are able to play any chords properly, but don’t give up.  You will get the hang of how to play them, and eventually you will be able to transition between different chords effortlessly.

It may become a little boring playing these simple notes and chords.  There is nothing that will inspire your guitar learning faster than being able to play your first tune.  For this, you should find some guitar tabs to play.  Guitar tabs allow you to play songs without the ability to read sheet music and you can find guitar tabs for almost any song imaginable.  The tabs are basically a picture that shows the 6 strings of the guitar along with numbers that represent the fret you should hold down for each note.  Just pick a simple guitar tab to try and practice it until it becomes second nature for you to play.  Take your time, and you will be playing the song in no time.  Although there is still much to learn, you are now on your way to learning to play the guitar.

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