Many people long to play the guitar. Some have actually have attained fame and fortune, while others are in the beginning stages. If you've just bought your first guitar, you can look forward to a rich and rewarding time of learning to make music. Don't make the mistake of thinking it will be easy, or that you will automatically become a pro. Just to become good takes a lot of time and practice. It's all worth it as you begin to enjoy making music.

You'll have a few things to think about once you've decided to take up the guitar. You may want to take lessons from a qualified instructor. You may want to buy books and be self-taught. Or you may decide to learn online from some of the many videos and pictures available. It won't be hard to find the right one for you. It's also necessary to settle on the type of music you want to play. Needless to say there are a lot of options.

In addition to learning the proper way to hold the guitar, you will also learn the proper placement of the fingers and soon be learning a number of chords. Even before you know much, take time to start plucking one string at a time to hear its sound. Each string and each note is designated with a letter of the alphabet from A to G. In addition, as you learn chords and notes, you will see a ?#?, which denotes a sharp note or a ?b?, which refers to a flat note. For example, if you saw ?C#?, that would mean C Sharp or ?Cb? would mean C flat.

Before you can play any chords, you'll need to tune your guitar. There are six strings, with a note assigned to each one. An example would be tuning your guitar so that the first and thinnest string is the high E. The second is B, the third G, the fourth D, the fifth A, and the sixth, thickest string will be the low E.

To tune your guitar, you can take it to your local music shop or have your guitar teacher tune it for you. Soon, you will know exactly how to tune your own guitar. Once you have your guitar ready to go, chances are you will be taught the first position and open chords. What you will find is that over the next few weeks, you will become more and more comfortable with the feel of the guitar and within about a month, be playing actual songs. Playing the guitar is a wonderful hobby that with practice, could easily turn into something more.

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