Guitar101: Step by step guitar lesson for absolute beginners

1. Introduction: Hi. Hello everyone. I am nola instructive for today. Thank you for taking the first step and start to get hurt your knee with me. And I bet is not that common that you see a female guitar disrupt the on Udemy. So please allow me to introduce myself. I am Lola, and I could learn guitar for more than 10 years. I've lost count. And I've been teaching professionally for more than five years. And with that being sake, learning guitar is sexually kind of the long journey depends on what you want to achieve. And please don't expect course you will be able to play like Ed Sheeran or shot methods. It takes time. This course is perfect for beginner. So if you don't know anything about guitar and you really, really want to learn, then you've come to the right place. You can expect to learn from scratch here. You know, from sitting position to showing a few colloids and singing shrub at the same time because this course is very basic. It's for beginners. You can practice and play with me with any guitar, whether it's a crusade, classical or electric. Because register learning very basic stuff here. If you have any question or any ways that I can improve my teaching, please do, let me know in the review box. And at the end of this course, I will go through all of the frequently asked questions from beginner learners and just go through one by one. And maybe if you're facing the same problem, you can refer to my questions and hopefully we can get the answer without further ado. Let's start the class. Shall we click Next video. 2. Guitar types and parts: Hello, welcome back. Let's drought without risk for Shopee. So every time when you meet a new person, a new friend name is the first thing that you get from num, correct? So the same goals that guitar. So we are going to learn about the names and the a body part. And before we dive into that, let's just talk a little bit about the types of guitar and there are on the market. So today I'm just going to touch on tree most common guitars. The first one is classical guitar, the second one is acoustic guitar. The third one is electric guitar. So let's start with classical guitar. The one that I'm holding right here. It's a classical guitar. So classical guitar usually they don't have that see color. They are pretty earthy blue type of color. And they have wider fingerboard and also nylon strings. With its acoustic risk, acoustic guitar. They comes in fancy, fancy design, fancy, fancy color. Some of them you can plug in, some of them you don't have to POP plugging into plain acoustic guitar. They have six still strings and narrower fingerboard. So this part of acoustic guitar is a little bit narrower in like yeah, they are less, they in a sense. And they have more fancy. These are my convention. They comes in black, white literary, like the ones that have tiny, tiny some pool. I will insert a picture here as well. Those are acoustic guitar. And lastly, electric guitar. They do not have a south pole and you need to plan them. And in order for it to unleash the full potential, if you just play an electric guitar like this, we don't put the and amp to it. It sounds very soft, is not loud enough, is not clear enough. But when you put the with electronic Itard, that's when their full potential power. Now let's move on to the second part of this lecture. Let's talk about the parts. The parts is pretty much the same for every single guitar. I've mentioned a few just now, so it stuck with those. This is the thing Go board. So I'm referring to this whole thing. That's a fingerboard, this one as the sound hole. It's quite obvious why it's called sound hold because it's a sound with a whole and all of this, we call it streets. So on any guitar, they have six strings. And this is what we call the head. And gives our pegs. Peg zone is stuff that you choose. With it. The two most important things I save it for last, this friends. Can you see like the lines in between the guitar? Yeah, those are what we call friends. They are, they play a very substantial part in guitar. It's what differentiate one group from another. So please do remember, these are farads and let's go back to shrinks. So for guitar, when I say fish string, I'm referring to the bottom stream over here, not the top. A lot of students, they make mistake thinking that this is the first dream because it's the one that's closest to them, but it's not the case. Fresh ring always start from the bottom. So when I say festering, I'm referring to the bottom string, second, third, fourth, fifth, and the sixth grade. So please do remember when I save clustering, I'm referring to the import them one yet so you don't make stuff later that solve for names and parts and empathy. In the next class, you will learn about the sitting position, the most perfect sitting position that you can try. And funny, I know it's funny, but there are multiple ways to sit with the guitar. And when you're holding classical guitar, and when you're holding an acoustic guitar, there are different ways to sit with it to make sure you're comfortable and everything. Please check out the next video to know how to sit properly when you're holding the target. 3. Sitting position: Now let's talk about the city position. First of all, you have to make sure you're comfortable with that beam. Say, don't sit on uncomfortable chair. Is there wonky? Don't see it on the next one. Make sure your body is relaxed. You don't want, you know, you don't want to be too pens when your fingers took tags to shorter to tens, you come promptly. So make sure your whole body is blacks as well. And third, make sure you don't lean back all the way to a chair. Don't do that. Make sure you at the tip of your chair, for example, this is the chair. Make sure you sit on the top of the chair instead of leading all the way back. For classical players, they usually sit like this. Our picture here. And that way of sitting is great, but you don't normally see people seeking that way is because it's not so convenient for girls. If you're wearing a short dress, you can sit that way, but I guarantee you if you have trouble pressing costs, for example, f court or seek court, even the whole when you sit this way. Any problem with disappear. You can immediately plate all the courts that you can press properly. That's the power of sitting properly. But again, I understand. You don't see that every day. So let's now talk about how to sit in, you know, in the more casual everyday wave. First one, make sure your shoulders are straight and parallel. Let me pull my hair back so you can see they're shooters of Sri should they are straight. And lot of students tend to go up and down right off the five-minutes they play, cannot do that. Make sure they're free and relaxed. Second most important thing is make sure your fingerboard face up woods. This is a perfect position. They are physic up. The best example would be like this, a shriek one. That's not a good example. Make sure that finger around late to a one o'clock, like between 12 o'clock, there will be really doing nice, that would be the most. Let's talk about the curves. The curves over here meant for your thigh. So makes sure they are on your thigh like so an issue foot cannot reach the ground. You can just cross your LEA and you would be able to form this perfect sitting position with fingerboard facing upwards, this curve on your thigh. And if your foot, if you're a short person like me and you foot cannot reach the ground. Just put a little stool on your foot. It will help you make yourself look hired and make yourself more comfortable. And that is all for sitting position. But now let's talk a little bit about the bad example. A bad example of sitting position would be like this. Back slouching. Keep that are kinda of praecox free. The most annoying part of Unless sitting properly is that you cannot press stuff properly. All everything that you press is going to sound like fart. This is what I call fart some. This is fart sounds. If you don't sit properly, There's a big possibility that you will the courts would come up with sounds like this. And you don't want that. So we choose it straight to clop. Make sure you're comfortable. And I know sometimes when you're not sitting properly, it actually makes you feel more comfortable. But for beginner is very important because a lot of my students cannot get past that whenever I place on slight fart stage and they just give up. It's not that they are not talented, is not that they're not gifted. They are is they're not sitting properly. The smallest, they mix a different when it comes to guitar. So a sitting position is one of the most important thing. And make sure you got that right before you move on to the next lecture. I'll see you in the next lecture. 4. Basic guitar tool: Now let's talk about some of the tools that you need to play guitar because they stay there. A lot of tools that you, then you might need them, but actually you don't. So do note that I will start from the most important one and move on to the least important one. So the first one on my list, the most important tool that you need to be careful. This is what it looks like. It comes in any color, a lot of type as far this is just a very common normal one. So what Kepler does is it raises the pH of a salt. For example, when you are trumping and singing and you feel like this song is quite low, you want to change the pitch. So what you do is you kept, Will you put this capsule on the guitar just to see which one do you prefer? Which peach do prefer to see me? So let me show you an example with and without careful. I'm going to sing, had the icon hungry without kept book first. Now let's put a couple on the fret. Let's see how it's going to sound. I'm not so sure if you guys can hear the difference. But when I sing without kickball, I start with like this. And we kept or I actually seeing like this. So what kept? It raises the pH of a salt, whether you want to sing as drought or whether you're salts from tap. Sometime you use capital S1. Next up we have a peak. This is what it looks like. It comes in different outcomes, in different design, different patterns, different color, different thickness. But this is not a must for you to play guitar. As you can already tell, I prefer not holding a pig because it's like a substitute for meals. If you are those people who hate going up Nils Pete would be really, really useful. It makes the sound so much more bright, clear, and more, it provides more clarity. But if you are okay with long life and long a little bit, you don't need pay is not a mas, it's not like a must have, but it's more like a personal preference. Moving on to tuner, I will insert a traditional tuners that you can see that how a tradition tuner looks like. So when you usually put that to know over here and start again, because of the technology that's available in the market, it's not necessary for you to get what it. There are tons of free apps out there that works the same. The work amazing. I'll answer some look at logo here. You can download any of these apps for tuning. Before we move on to the next lecture, which I teach you guys how to tune and staff. So that's all for the basic tools that you need for a guitar. If you are ready, please click on the next video. 5. Tuning: Let's talk about tuning. Tuning is something that you must know and you have to do it every time before you play guitar. I remember there was this one time I put a new guitar and I went straight to the stage without tuning it. The whole time. Sounds like a disaster. So don't repeat that mistake that I made. Make sure you take every single time you play, especially when it comes to a new guitar. They are out of two all the time. Like every five minutes you have to tune it once. It, it's absolutely normal. So you can tell this app from App Store or Google Play Store. I have been using it forever sins. And actually you can tune it with a tuner like this, as well as I, like I mentioned in the previous lecture. They do cause a little bit. But whereas the completely free. So if I do have to suggest, I suggest that indeed because it's free and all of this Works to see. So if you don't like the one that I suggested, you can go to the race and check them out. Voiceover, no law here taking over. So let's start the tuning, shall we? So you just have to open the app, like I suggested, it's called guitar tuner. You can find it on the App Store or Google Play Store. So once you first, sorry, once you open the app, it's going to look something like this. It will show you all the strings stuff from what does, what do they mean is frustrated. Seconds that shrink, fostering fifth string and the 600. Remember the first dream, we always count from the bottom. We don't come from the top. We count from the bottom. So let's start with E string, shall we? So click E. If you see negative, it means you have to make it a little bit tighter. In this case, just a little bit because it says minus minus 3 is minus 30 then yeah, you have to make it a lot tighter. But in this case minus 3. So just make it a little bit. So see the string where it connects to, which peg, which connects to, and you make it a little bit tighter. And then you gotta correctly. And you can actually experiment a little bit. You can turn clockwise and decode wise, just to fill which way is tighter? Which way is this mic? You're making it. Okay, so now let's try the B string seconds tree. So make it a little bit tighter. Once it hits the tick, then you are good to go. Now moving on to the third string g. Just write shares. Nice. Now moving on to D plus four, if it's a positive sign, immune CFO make it loose. So again, with which packed as it connects to, look properly, which district the shrink, which pack there's connects to, and then U2, DACPAC. So again, a little bit more, a little bit more until you hit that take. And when you're done, all the strings should sound like this. So if it does not sound like this, then you did not turn it gray. So make sure again, are the shrink sounds like this. Then you can start to play anything that you like. 6. Finger placement: I am Zoom you guys a little bit closer because we are going to talk about the left hand placement. Okay? The most important things when it comes to placement for left-hand S. Not else. You don't want any Neal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have neon. I'm saying that you shouldn't have long nuance. Okay. Apologies. So make sure your heels are and it's like this this is long actually. I usually don't keep it that long because the lockdown unlocked and pay for the longest time as a little bit long, but somewhere around there. And little bit stroke though would do. So when you're pressing first, your thought, your thumb should always be around fret to the second fret. Not the first, not the third, but second fret. And don't, they shouldn't do too. They shouldn't do. They shouldn't be like this. I know a lot of acoustic guitar player, they do that, but for now, let's stick to the beginner laying. Put your thumb in the middle and make sure there's a space here. You're not supposed to state this cart on the fingerboard. You supposed to leave some space. Okay. And when you're pressing any strings, any fret, make sure you're pressing it. Shrink like this. It shouldn't be like this. It shouldn't be like this. So a bad example of pressing C chord would be like this. This is the worst example. This is like the perfect example would be this subspace sure, race. Around 90 degree would be bends. And let's hear what's different in terms of some. If I press it this way. The worst example, this is how it's going to sound. This is not how sequence. Suppose this outline right away. And now the version, not so good. This is how it's going to sound. You can feel here that foreign cell. And now if you do it straight with phase, this is how it's going to sound. Louder, it clear, this is what we want. This is what you want to achieve at the end of the day. So I left him finger placement is very important. Okay. Before we move on to right-hand policemen, let's do some revisions. The first one, your thumb at fret to fingerboard. When you're fingerboard, fret too. At the middle, not so in front, but in the middle. And next up, the Fred, make sure you're close to Fred. Cate, this is perfect. This is like this is through words. So if you want to press first fret, make sure you're right. You're very close to first fret, not on top of it, not over it. And when you press, make sure your fingers are straight. I mean, your knuckles. Yeah. Better words. Your knuckles are Shukri. This is cell. This is the so again, this is clear. This is, and this is helpful. Okay, So make sure you press straight up 90 degrees and space. And that is all for love 10. Now, let's move on to write their names. For all the fingers in right, on right hand. There are names for each fingers. This is P, aka thumb, I AKA index, M, aka your middle finger, and a aka your ring finger. I will, instead of pictures here for better understanding. And pink, we did not include them. We've never been never used them. So just a word this guy is I don't have a name other than that. P i at him. Hey, this journey. So when I'm saying p, I'm referring to thumb. When I say I am referring to index finger, when I say m, I'm referring to middle finger. I would say I am referring to. So let me show you how do we place on the sample. This is the perfect position to place on the sample. What makes it good? Let me explain. First, your thumb should always be forward. This is aligned with your index finger. I not so good. This is the worst one. Your thumb should always be for width. So this is the perfect position. And when I first thought that my teacher, just AS me to imagine, there is a ball in your hand and you don't want to let them fall. So just imagine this ball in your hands and hold it on your ketone. This is the most perfect position for p. This guy is important. She is responsible for all the base dreams. Bass strings are in the fourth, fifth, and the sixth string. So thumb is actually responsible for the fourth, for the fifth sixth string. So whenever you want to play fostering string six green, you have to use your, your thumb. And that's for beginner only. Okay? So for now just remember, your thumb is responsible for this URI strings. But as you gradually become better at becoming expert, that wouldn't be the case. But for now, yes. Your thumb would be responsible for this tree strings and the bottom tree, your fingers, I is responsible for this Greek. Your finger m is responsible for this screen. Your fingers a is responsible for this string. So when you go into play, it's going to be like this. P. I am a. You don't do like this is the bad example. Okay? This is the bad example because your thumb not supposed to go down for beginner. Again, let me emphasize for now. Okay, you've done never going to stop because they each finger plays a responsibility and they play a role. Don't mix them up. So again, done is responsible for the fourth, fifth, sixth grade. I am responsible for each string starting from the first, second, third. So whenever you're at rest, whenever you're not playing thing, you're listening, you can just do this. This is the position that you will be in. It. It's a sign that you're ready to go anytime. Next lecture we're going to talk about strokes. So before we move on to this, to make sure you are clear with all this thing. If you're not, go back and watch it again. So you don't accumulate too much knowledge that you're not so sure that if you're ready, click on next video and we're going to learn so much more about strokes. 7. Strokes: Now let's talk about strokes. This would be a very simple lecture. Self, let's get on Method and K. There. We're only going to touch on two types of truth day. The first one's called rest stroke, and the second one is quote, free, shrunk. And show only applies to right hand. There is no left hand truck or whatever. There's only write true for right, hence. So let's start with rest. Stroke ratio is when you do that. After you play, you rest your finger on the knowledge tree. When you do this is called rush stroke. And when it is free stroke, you just play it like this. This is when free shoe is when you do this, you go form something like a fist over here. Go. And you form something like this. So when you plot anything, make sure your fingers, knuckles as well. Not like, for example, if this is the string, this is what you're supposed to do to it. The better example would get this. This is the bad example. So make sure if this is three, this is what you are doing to it. Okay? And rest stroke is when you do this. It rests on another string. This one rest on another string. Free stroke is when you do like this. Your finger from some type of this after you play. That's what we call free stroke. So you can pause this video and stop a little while and digest. But I just saved and of course, learn and practice. But I just told you try free stroke and rich group. And here, is there any difference. And when you come back, we're going to talk a little bit about how do you apply rush broke, and free stroke. Pause, calm down tree to lie. I hope you've got your restroom and free stroke, right? And then let's talk about how do you apply restaurant stroke. Okay? So restroom. I usually use four main character. I don't know how else to describe it. And free shrew is for the not so important people, but it's there in the movie, their main characters and their characterization is there to make the whole thing were interesting. And the same thing applies to music. Restroom are usually four main character and free shrew. I usually for some important people, but they're there to make it so much more interesting. So for example, this song, I'm going to stop there. And so if you hear it's a classical song, Paul Romans, the AMO. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that, right. Besides color of its gamble. And you can tell the song there are different layer. The Firstly you, the main character, the year is, That's the main character layer. And that's the part where I used brushstroke. And there's another layer that's there to make it sound so much more interesting. But they are not the main character, just like this one. The BG, BG, the ladder is not so important, but they're there to make sounds so much better. So that's when I use free stroke. This is how I do it. Whereas Free, Free, Free, Free, Free, Free. Actually emphasizing the main character. So when I use restrooms, the main character was that out a little bit more. And a lot of students have this question. So what about when I see an sram at the seat type? You use free? Sure. Because when you're singing, you are the big character girl, not Yuki car. So when you're seeing just make sure you're using the SRO. Is that off? Restroom? If you use rest wrote, it is really make sense. So make sure you use fishery. And I will teach you a lot more about this plucking patterns in the future, the future in the next few video, so that it's all about strokes. And in the next video we're going to do something really exciting that's called strumming. I'm sure you guys know it already. So click next video and learn a little bit more about it. 8. Strumming: Here comes the exciting part. Strumming strongly is when your risk go up then down, like so. Now let's let her about down, shrunk. Now it's trying to spin your use your index finger. Make a curve, something like this. Go down. So make sure yours from all six ring. And make sure it's fast enough. That is sound like one, like this. A better example would be this. This is somewhat troubling because, you know, you're not doing it all at once. This is the perfect example. Now let's try upstroke. Abstractlist. When you use your thumb, goes up like so. And usually when you doing upstroke, it is not necessary for you to go all the way up. You don't have to do this. Because sometimes it can sounds a little bit too much. Now let's try to get there. Down, down, down. Now let's do a little bit past countdown. And when you're ready, you can come back so he can stop this video in 321. Now let's move on to the dopants. That thing that you have to pay more attention when you're a struggling. So the first thing is make sure your fingers is not canceling this. Don't do this. Now. Makes sure day I kind of separate. They're very relaxed now. Now. Now. Now. So that's the first. Don't be so tenths. The second, you make sure you only move your wrist. You don't move your shoulder. You don't move feel album. So for some very common beginner mistake is they strung with the album like this, it's going to be locked. It's good when you want to play some rock saw and, or you're emphasizing something. But for now, let's normalize using risks only. Later on. In the next few lecture, I am going to teach you a few strumming pattern that you can use over and over again. Before we move on to more complicated strumming pattern, you have to make sure that you've got the basic right first. So let's try four down, strum up strong, and four down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. Let's do it together. Use your index fingers, curl up like so for downstroke. Now again, with your thumb for upstroke. Now let's try down, down, down. Make sure your shoulders not moving. Make sure elbow is not moving. Just your risks. Okay. Let's try. Now. I hope you did a great job. Now, another thing that you have to remember is you use your kneel to shrunk down. So you glide through the screens with your NYLS. Note your knuckles. This part, I don't know what do you call it? Make sure you do your NYLS coded krill them up a little bit like so. So it's normal, you know, when you're playing and you're left ten hurt a little bit. It's quite normal. But it's not normal. If you're if you're right head hurts. Your right-hand. Not supposed to hurt. Okay. So if your right hand is hurting strongly, then you're doing something wrong. And the most common problem is your strum to heart and your fingers at two-tenths. Make sure it is not tense, is relaxed and your trunk. That very next part we will talk about plucking. I'm not sure if you guys heard of it. If you haven't, stay tuned, we will use a lot of that PIM AS well. If you forgot, please refer back to the previous video and when you're ready, click onto the next video. I'll see you there. 9. Plucking: Let's talk about plaque blocking issues like you use your right-hand clock in apple from the tree. The same rule apply in parking where your knuckles should be up like this and shouldn't be badly. Says this NOW and this is the yes. Now let's get on with plugging. Before that, let's do a little bit of revision. This is called P, aka of thumb, I, aka your index finger, and also known as your middle finger, a thinker. Now let's apply what we have third finger placement just now. Thumb is responsible for this string, this string, and this string. And index finger for that SRY, middle finger for the second string, and ring finger for the fish brain. And this is the perfect position. Remember, where your thumb is little bit forward then your index finger. This is not so good and this is hard. So make sure your thumb is for it. Now, after you place each finger on the streams that they, were they supposed to be. Now let's think that you have to make a fist after this. So you block and make a fuss. You pluck and make assist. You plan. And think of this. This is the slow motion. Make sure you lock and make us is. Okay. I'm going to play and realize speak Greek goes like this. This is the perfect position right after you play your fingers from a first. And most of the common, the stick. They do, students tend to do it like this. Very stiff, not relaxed, know first. And if you can tolerate the direction of the plot facing that way. So it's like this. This is a better example. Is supposed to go up, sorry, your thumb supposed to go down. This tree, supposed to go up. After you block them altogether to form a fist. So go down while this trickle up. That's the perfect example. Make sure your fingers and they're stiff like this. This is not right. As he can tell, it doesn't sound as nice as compared this and this. Okay? Now we've learned how to plot them together. Now let's try separately, please. Each finger on it shrinks like you did just power. But this time you have to block them separately. So let's do prefers. Now let's do i. Now let's do M. Now let's do eight. Now, let's do, let's do, let's do M. Unless do a. So this is how you pluck them separately. Just each finger. Just like that. And then you can play it together. And separating these together and separating them again together and separate them. And again, I'm going to do a postcard down. You can pause this video and give yourself some time today chairs and practice whatever you have learned just now counting down 321 beta one. Well, before we move on to another lecture which is going to be scrambling and plucking pattern. We are going to do a little bit of revision of what we've learned and the do's and don'ts for this lecture. So for plucking the deuce first one, make sure your thumb is for with that other finger. This is the best practice. The second one. The second one is mixture off the plot. Your finger from office. Regardless if you're plagued them separately or together, they form a fist and the adults are first one, don't be stiff. This is stiff. And this the second dong, dong glide through it. Make sure you block knuckles up. Don't just slight through them like this with your knuckles banded. That's not that's not good. So if you're ready, let's move on to the next lecture. I'll see you there. 10. Pattern practice: Let's do some pattern practice. So when I'm referring to pattern, it means strumming and blocking. But in a different way because you can't just like how I taught you guys just out walking and just do it like this. All the time is going to be very, very boring. That's why Let's talk a little bit about plucking. So remember p i m a. Now let's try the first plucking. Pet. I have Zoom you guys a little bit closer so you can see the packing pattern. Now let's follow the plug-in pattern over here. Then. Let's try it again. Then. After you think you're ready, Nice, try and foster them. Now, I will do a little bit postcard down so you can have some time to practice. Make sure you don't stop in between each petal. So make them continuous. Api. I read out the list again. Pause condyle in tree. See one. I hope you're ready for the next plucking pectin. I would insert the plucking petting here, which is P. I ate together and then 88 together. And then I, let's try together. Again, our past calm down so you can try them out yourself. Come down in 3, 2, 1. Before we move on to strumming, let's do a little bit of revision. Make sure your thumb. What did this guy, this tree fingers over here, it's a little bit behind or right here. And you can put any base that you want. Okay, So maybe you can try on the sixth string, first string, and the Fostering. At the history some time we can pause this video, but if you don't, let's move straight to the strumming pattern. Down. Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao. Now know the lines in between the picture means you have to wait for little bit. So it's like now, now. Now, now I will try to shrunk this pattern by n count 1, 2, 3, 4 it so you can know which exact be you have to shrink up or which exactly it you have to strum down. So it's going to go like this. 1, 2, 3, 4. So basically the first one is from dad. When you see two is shrunk down. When you see a tree trunk. And when you say for your shrub. So again, this tried together. Now. Now, now, now, now again, or do a postcard down so you can try them out yourself if you still need some time to digest this information, please pause this video in 321. You're ready. Let's move on to the next strumming pattern, which is going to be now. Let's try it again. Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao Dao. So with the strumming pattern, you can apply it in any song that you like, as long as the Sophists for a big PR bug, which I will explain it further in our future lecture, which is the next lecture. You can tell it just now when you're struck down that it's completely up to you if you want the shrimp all the way down. Or if you just want to trump the top part. Or just about the arts. And as you can tell, they sound very, very different. Or you can choose from all six strings together which field sounds like this? It is completely up to you and how do you want to sram and how the song feels like, does it feel like a country? Others, it's still like a very set, so it's completely up to you. There's no restrictions here when it comes to creativity. Now, if you're ready, let's try again from first plucking pads it to the second packing padding and two strumming patterns as well. Let's start with the first plucking pattern if there actually are trying it with me. Now let's move on to this second strumming pattern. And by the time, I hope you've got the plucking right, if you're ready. Let's do some revisions on the shrugging pet. The first strumming pattern. Now, Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau. So now, Very good. Now let's move on to the last strumming pattern. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Now I will count and shrub this parent the last pattern. At the same time seeking good. So you can get a clearer idea, which you have to shrunk down, which we have to trump up. It goes like this. If you're ready, we will move on to Chapter 3 where we will talk about core words. But if you still need some time to digest you, some time to practice, please to replay the video again so you can practice with me. But if you're ready, I'll see you there. 11. Basic Chords: Lab, I'm too quiet. I'm so happy they made it this far. Now, before we start about playing chords and everything, I wanted to talk to you guys about something that you have to know before we move forward. In this chapter, we're going to go through some of the most common chords. And we will start with six quotes today. And I guarantee you with this six chords, you can play almost hundreds or thousands of songs and sing along with it. Now, a little bit more about courts puts this the combinations of nodes. So for example, if I play a C over here, this is cysteine know. But if I play a tons of notes together, in this case is C, G, and E, That makes a C chord. So please don't confuse yourself with notes and CT, different thing. And each quality of a North has a very different way. When I say quality, I mean major, minor, dominant seven, major seven at ETC. This qualities brings a different file. So don't get overwhelmed when you see minor, major. We just seven all this quote. I'm just going to show you an example of how different qualities will sound different. First one, C major chord. It sounds happy as major. C Minor caught a little bit set. C major seven. I usually prefer major 7 quality because it sounds like an angel is coming from the sky. Save. And now C7 sounds like this. Any cuts that has dominant seven, which is like C7, H7 has a very funky by Israeli. And this is A7. They have like very upbeat, very funky kind of white. That's for how qualities can make a sound different. For now, that's all you have to know about cults. And when you're ready, let's move on to the next lecture. 12. Beats and Rhythm: Let's talk about beads and read them. So it's a rhythm exists in every song. There's no way that there's a song without B. No way. So what I want us to do now is open any pop song in your Spotify. Just click on any song and tried to tap to it. So when you're enjoying the song with this tempi of food, we're making this sound. You're tapping to the B. Those are beans. And for pop song, normally we have full beats per bar. And that is the exact reason why, when I asked you guys to Scrum just now, I only count until for it. There's no five, there's no sakes. There are some song that's tribute per bond, but that's very, very rare. I would say 95 percent of pop song that you hear on the radio at four beats per bar. And later on in the lectures, I will write the courts in form like this. So if you see one bracket like so, that's one bar, it means this thing is for B. So if this one bar has one court, It means that particular court you have to strum four times. So like this, if I see this, it would be okay. And if in one particular bar there are two ports, then that means one called S to P. Because one bar, they have to courts sharing soap. That's why you only have the Trump twice and twice. If it means if I see this one, I have to shrunk. I just thought this is something that I should tell you guys first before we move on to pressing cotton stuff, it might get a little bit confusing. So we see that just the everything that I say. And when you're ready, let's move on to the next one. 13. C & G chord: Let's start with SQL. Sql is the most common cold ever. And this is how you press C chord. Your first finger on second stream, first fret, middle finger, fourth string, second fret. Your ring finger. Fifth string, third fret. And when you're done, make sure there's space in between and your knuckles is up. Make sure everything is ready, then you can start strumming. Let's try again. Now let's try with the plucking pattern that we've learned. Just the first plucking patent. M by m, I, I, I, I. When you're ready, let's move on to G chord. This is how you press jQuery. First finger, fifth, fret, second tree, middle finger, sixth string, third fret. First finger, first string, the fret. This is G chord. So let's try strumming four types. Let's try again. Let's try with plucking Patton with g. The basis here, 63, the fret, that's a cheap. So you have to plot this drink. And I, I, I m that is she. I am going to do a POC handout so you guys can pause this video and try to memorize how to press the court before we move on past conduct 321. When you're ready. Now let's try from Sequel as such, G chord. So let's try see quotes or times g caught for the G chord. For. Now, let's try one more time from G to C chord, four chord. You can pause the video if you want. Now let's move on to strumming twice and then G chord twice. It means you have to switch so much more faster. Because now you're always trumped twice and you have to move on already. But let's start slowly and then pick up speed later. So as stuff it's changed. Let's try get from C coin twice and when she caught place, start from a secret court. Now, let's try the other way from G chord to see twice as well. From G chord, C chord. Let's try one more time from G court to seek to reshoot the try with me, Okay, for the next lecture we are going to learn tumor or so. If you're ready, you're already memorized the finger placement for SQL and she court than just straight away because next video, I'll see you there. 14. Am & Em chord: Well, let's move on to the next core. This lecture, we are going for a minor and E minor chord. Very easy. A magnetic core is just like a C chord, but put your ring finger right behind your middle finger. So your first finger is that second stream for spread. Middle finger fostering second fret, that finger, that string. Second fret, that is a minor. Now let's trace from it four times. Now let's try to plot part of one. And I, for him either the base would be fifth string. So put your thumb on the fifth string. Now let's try one more time together. I'll play a little bit slower this time. And that is a minor. Now let's try E minor. E minor, very simple as well. Just let go your index finger and move this finger up, 1, 2, 3, that becomes a Mac. So E minor middle finger is that fifth string. Second fret. Ring fingers is set, fostering second friend. Let's try to trim it four times. Four. And a disclaimer, it doesn't matter what finger you're pressing it with. As long as you're pressing the string and that fret, it doesn't matter if your crystal like this or like this, or like this. As long as you're pressing this two strings, then you're great. You're doing well. Now I will do plus Conda again. So you can pause this video and take some time to digest and memorize. How do you press a miter? Call it an E minor chord. Make sure you try to memorize. Where do you place a finger? Postcard down in 321. Welcome back. I hope you memorize them, because now we're going to switch from a minor to E minor. Now let's start from a minor four times, and then we switch it to E-Minor four times. They start with a miter. For switch. P3. Easy compared to the previous lecture, I hope you guys feel is quite easy as well. Now let's try from E minor to A-Minor, same things from four types. Let's start from 1234. Now, let's do the same thing as what we did just now. Shrub each quote twice. So am I there twice, E minor, twice. Let's start from E minor. E minor. Let's try one more time from a major one. Now let's switch for email either to a right there. Again, same thing twice for each proof. Let's try email there for a minute. Again, this trigger tree. You guys can take some time to combine the two quarts be learned just now and a minor, E minor, and use them with blocking pattern. Try with strumming pattern. It's completely up to you guys. So just make sure you take some time to digest instead of just moving straight onto next. This is just a step to make sure that whatever you've learned, you are creating a solid foundation. You're not just browsing through this course. So make sure that whatever you've learned before, you've made yourself a solid foundation to move on from here. But if you feel like you're ready, now let's move on to F chord and decor it with things get a little bit harder. I'll see you there. 15. F & D chord: Now let's try something a little bit harder. Let's start with F Court. Because this is just a beginner course. We are going through there with the Hough grep F Court. And there's half and half group is usually for blocking where you can choose which shrinks you want to play. For example, if this is F Court, you can choose only this four shrink to play. Whereas for group is usually for, trust me, because you're pressing all the screen, you are fully gripping this fingerboard. So you can try to trump every single strings, strings of the strings. And to be honest, I feel like pressing half group is kind of cheating way. But because this is, again, beginner clause, I don't want to overwhelm you guys with the heart things and you guys doing you can't play. So now today, let's just very half-wave f. You to index finger. Press fish green and second strings together. So like this, press them together. Again very close to the fresh on top of it, not over it. Very close to the front middle finger, that string, second fret, fourth finger, fostering the frame. This is export. So let's try strumming 4 times 4. Again, Let's try with what's height? That is F chord. Now, let's move on to the court. The court looks like this. First finger, that string, second fret, second finger, fifth string, second fret, and third finger, second tree that friends. This is a D chord. So let's try against from four types. Let's try good. One. For D chord, the base would be the fascia. And for f, quote, the base of b, the fostering as well. If you want to know why that particular string is the base port, please do stay tuned for my future courses for our will. Explain a little bit more of music theory. But for now let's do a pulse come down so you can stop this video and fetches whatever you've learned just now. Try to memorize how to please a finger. When it's F Court, M1 is D chord. And when we come back, we're going to switch from F quantity d, f prime postcard down in 321. Now let's try from F to D. Let's start from F four times d, four times from EF Core. First, which tree? Now let's travel time from F to D chord. F word for switch, 1, 2, 3, 4. Now let's try from the court to EF Core stuff from the court. Fun. Part f, quote one tree from the court. Will you strong? You tried to shrunk from the fourth string as well because that is the Bates. Whatever this toString is not inside the deep court, Emily. So try to ignore this toString if if you can, if you can't, then just ignore for now. Now let's try twice for each court. Trunk, twice for EV, shrunk twice for d. Let's start from F chord. One. It's a little bit first thing they, did you catch up. Let's start from Africa. From F. Now let's start from the port to F chord. Again. Same thing, Trump twice for each point. From Duckworth. One F Court. It's a little bit fussing. Let's turn over time from day one. That is all for the course we're going to learn in this course. If you have trouble memorizing the courts, please replay the video. And I'm Tia, get it right. I suggest you to do some revision first. Again, we need to build a solid foundation before we move on to things that might be too hard for us. So if you have the time, you can combine all of the six quarts and strung together, switch from one core to another. Try with different techniques. You can try blocking, you can try with strumming if you feel like you're ready. Let's move on to the next chapter. 16. Let's combine everything!: We are going to combine everything that we have learned. Everything. Again, let me emphasize if you feel it, you still need more time to know, solidify your knowledge and the skill that you just learned. Please do take time and revise again because you don't want to feel your skill on this tofu foundation. You want to build on something solid. In this chapter, you are going to combine everything that you've learned. And we're going to sing one song that she's perfect from assuring as well. And these are tons of examples that you can sing with. And play was just all the six quotes that you've learned. And of course, there is so much more quotes out there. But this will get you through the day grew. It's a lot of song already. So if you're ready, let's move on to singing. Perfect, buy a shirt. 17. Class project- sing along: It's time to sing. If you guys have a pen and paper nearby. Please jot this down so you can refer to it when you play later, because in this empty space here, I'm going to put the court chart so you guys can refer to it as well. And before we will want to drumming and singing, please do make sure that you know about beats and read them. I've mentioned and brief you guys about it and previous few lecture. So again, if it's one bar, one chord, that means that chors has 4 beats. If it's one bar, 2 chords like the chorus. That means one quart is two beat, aka use from twice. Okay, Now let's start from the verse. The first quarter is G court. So you strum four times. Next up is E minor. Next up is make sure there's space in between your finger and that finger for free. For now, let's try again from Chief court, from cheek word four times. Let's call for me. For the next lecture. I will teach you guys how to spice things up. But for now, let's just keep it simple because it is the first time you're seeing and trumping the cell. So let's keep it a little bit simple. Now let's move on to the course. The course part. Each court is to bid so strong twice and you need Gilly change. It means you have to move quite fast. Okay. Now, let's start from E minor, 321, go 4344 genes on the tree. For now, let's address some of the common problem that students face when they're strumming quotes. There is a stop in between each core. Though that's a very common problem actually because you're new here. You barely play before. Now let's talk about how to fix that problem. You can try to slow down the whole song. That's the first one. If you're trying really, really fast, then you can slow it down. Next one is the most useful tips I can give you, which is your right-hand. No matter what happened, dog stops from in-group. Just keep doing it. Keep doing it. If even if you need time to change, you can just play while you adjust and you'll have to stop, adjust, and then play. When the music Don't stop, people barely realize that you made a mistake. But the moment the music stops, that means everyone knows you made a mistake. So the most important part is kips from me. Your right-hand. Keep moving no matter what happened. Just keep strumming. Again. No matter what happened to the left hand, your right hand. Don't stop strumming. Now let's combine both of the part and sram it altogether at once. Make sure you're following me. G4 times. You may not have 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2 3, 4. Again from four. Plan for the palm tree for fun. I know. And that detail. Again, you might see before moving on to sing and Trump at the same time, first part, you have to make sure you're pressing all that cuts right? Second one, you have to make sure that the music didn't stop in between when you're switching caught. If your fitness this two pots, then you're ready to sit with it. So let's stick with that. One. Just the rollback, the cheek work, telephone. Someone read and follow the shrieks of cars. So how was her? So That's the most simplest version to play. Perfect. But at the same time, it's also the most boring way to play purvey. I have the trade-off with you guys. So that is why in the next lecture, we're going to learn how to spice things up. So it doesn't sound so boring, like how I did just now. But when I sing, it has shrunk just now. It's perfect for beginner to practice with. So if you still have struggled with playing and singing the court, just replay this video. But if you're ready, let's spice things up. 18. Spice it up!: It is time to spice things up a little bit. We're going to use the song with them. Just not perfect as a guide. But before that, let me explain how this will work, okay? So just like you and your school teacher, aside a homework as you guys to write an essay for example. And even with the same title, there's no way that you and your friends will write the same exact content. There's just no way exempt. You can't be his or her homework. That's exactly how it works in music. Even with the same song. Like perfect, There's no way that you and your friend was shrunk. The same strumming pattern will block the same thing and play the same way. Unless you guys learned together on this, you could copy each other. So that just how it works when it comes to strongly impacting pattern is just there's no right or wrong. It's just what's your preference? Do you like the wrong kind of feeling? Or do you like, like RMB, ballet type of mellow type of song? It's completely up to your preference. That is why sink and sram could be so fun because it's a way to express yourself. Before we spice things up, I want to teach you guys one technique that can take a host some upper level. So that technique is called c-Myc. So you have to do is you use this area and use this part as an anchor. Spec. It sends the Meccan snack it. Make sure you use this part as a guide, as an anchor. Lift them up, lift them up, spec it. Okay. That's how we use snack. And you can use make with strumming, plucking. And here's an example of how you can block shrunk at the same time. And here's an example of how you can shrunk and smack at the same time. So immediately if you'd like something is up level, just because that's the most easiest way to spice things up as change your strumming pattern and plugging pattern as well. For example, a wholesome, this is how I do it. I would do the verse with plucky because the VS so much more V lags. And when it comes to course, I was touch struggling. Now, let's just try with verse, PIM, AIM, and chorus. Strumming. The first strumming pattern that we've learned in the previous course. So for this, I'm going to use the first plucking pattern with her. And for this course part I will use the first strumming pattern that we've with. So let me answer the question that you have in your mind. But the course is to beat per course or how strong the for the first strumming pattern when it's clearly four bits. So what do you have to do is put one slash in the middle. So for the chorus, you start with E minor chord, ever played demo now. And when you see your play down, now. So you separate that this strumming into two parts. So equally 12 equals two, up, down, down, up, Up, 3, 4 equals to c. I hope you're ready. Now let's start singing. Let's try the first part with key I am, I am. I end the course with strumming tree to find at found the phone. For you. The term one from the get-go is known as Shangdi. After many years of teaching, I feel like students tend to stay in the comfort zone. They've been using this for many, many years if they just use it for a lifetime. Tried to explore creativity and try to add on your own touch. You know, like who are you? Do you like rock song? Do you like a very upbeat vibe type of song? Express that in your Xiaomi or you're plucking. Use those. Struck me pectin or plucking pectin that you've learned as the guide to help you. Other than that, you're good to go. Just make sure whatever you strung is either poor bit or to me. That's all you have to take care of. There's no such thing as strike strumming or the wrong truck. Every Xiaomi is the right strumming. As long as you stick to the beat. I hope you guys have learned so much. And the next chapter would be the conclusion chapter. I hope you guys really got something from me. I hope I deliver value to you guys. If you're ready. Let's move on to the next chapter. We will talk about some of the do's and don'ts and some of the things that you have to pay more attention to, it's quite important, kept the S-box, so make sure you ticketed. 19. Common mistakes: I hope you guys are enjoying so far and had a good experience learning with me. But here's a nutshell from the whole course and the do's and don'ts that you have to really, really pay attention to. Because after teaching for a long time, I realized students spend more time fixing bad habit that they know they shouldn't do, rather than learning new things. So let's go through one by one some of the common mistakes and practice that students do. Their first one, bending your fingers when you price. Remember, knuckles up. When you press a court, that's a null. That's how low since SRY and space in-between your this part and the fingerboard, that's very important. And second is being too nervous and 10. So I know that your body language reflect your status. Mine. So if you're nervous, embody tend to be very, very tense and you know, like just stiff. So make sure you're relaxed, you're comfortable, and you're letting this at home. You shouldn't be nervous at all. So just make sure you're completely relax. Your shoulders are parallel, straight and you're not too stiff. In order for this online thing to work. You have to be your own teacher. You have to constantly, heck, if you're doing anything wrong. So please make sure that you're constantly checking yourself. Practice in front of the mirror if it's necessary just to double-check that you're not doing anything wrong. The third one, your fingers. Four left-hand. It's very common debt. If it hurts, you know, especially if you're using acoustic guitar, like Rushdie, acoustic guitar. And by the way, if it's treats on a rusty mixture, you'd go change them. And if it's too painful for your left hand, to be honest, it's kinda more and more as time goes by, you get used to. But for your right-hand, know, your right-hand should never hurt. If it hurts, then you're doing something wrong. Check yourself again. That SOS1 nails out tomorrow. Especially left-hand. You'll know shouldn't be so long that you cannot press properly where you have the banyan knuckles to press properly in all the, you know. So you know, with face this way, when you press like this, that's not ideal. Just cut your nails, just trim them. And sometimes for your right hand, if it's too long, it disturb your playing as well. So make sure right Can not too long, like this is okay. And your left hand is as short as possible? Like a little bit shorter than this would be nice. Moving on your sitting position. Believe me, when I say it matters, I'm not joking. It really play a vital role on how your keychain is going to sound? Is, is, is it going to cell lines farting all the time? Or is it going to sound bright and clear? And Meadows a lie when it comes to sitting position because it affects DO factored. Is it going to sound clear? Is it going to somebody it's floating. Sit properly. Don't slouch. Make sure this fingerboard is facing one or two o'clock. Not straight like this. This is a good example. And make sure you're not leaning towards the chair. Make sure you sitting on the tip of the chair, that would be really, really nice. Stop being in-between courts. I would say this is some of the top three common habits. That habits that student a is because when they're beginner in between each court, they stop. So now even though they are advanced player, they still stop in between the court because that's just how they used to. So make sure you utilize other tips that I gave you in previous lecture and not make those same mistakes over and over again. Next one, one-off, they're also one of the top tree I save the best for. Last is building up that habit, like I say, because I've been teaching for quite a long time, student tends to spend more time fixing their bad habit rather than learning new stuff. They know they shouldn't do that. Suddenly when they play, just come back the bad habits. So make sure then that the bad habit grew at the first place. And lastly, the last but not least is make sure you get the right guitar. I had students spend like $40 on the guitar. And they got so frustrated because they never sound right. But they never know is because of the guitar. The problem is thick guitar is not them. It affects your learning motivation when the guitar that was some right? This affect you. So get like good enough guitar, it doesn't have to be expensive. The mixture is not cheap where they live like a toy. Just make sure you get the proper one. It doesn't have to be expensive again, just make sure they are problem. And in the next lecture, I will answer some of the most frequently asked question from beginner guitar player. And I hope if you have any doubts in your mind, I will be able to answer them in the next video clip connects one and I'll see you there. 20. FAQ: Now, do you have question that you wish you can ask me? This is the video dedicated for those students. I hope some of the answer that I'm sorry, I hope some of the questions that I choose and it's the same question you have in mind. And let me clear it out for you. I'm going to refer to my laptop over here. I have my laptop over here. And I am going to refer to them and answer to it one by one. So let's go the first. Who, ash, How should I for my guitar? First? Stay away from water. If your fingers are at rain mixture you bought by Keystone. So if it's rainy, the hurt them, and make sure you have some type of protection. If it's the case. If it's a bad mixture, they are protected and make sure don't put it under the hot sun as well. It's very important because a lot of the parts of guitar is get, is stick together by glue. So if you put them under hot sun, the blue will be melted. And actually, I had this determined for about 10 years as far this is my baby. The glue over here melted. So I actually had the Senate to the last year and fix them. So again, don't repeat the same mistake. Known as frequent as you can. I personally never buy them. I'm not the clean personally. But do wipe them when you get it Chen's and somebody Tyler would be changed is streaming lot Theia from time to time, polish, it makes sure the moon shining and bright. Should I take private guitar lesson, learned face-to-face from a teacher that would be really nice. Because I am a teacher myself. I preferred teaching face to face because I can see everything. I can see the body language. Is my student nervous, she or he getting upset? I like to read my student because I want to motivate them. I don't want to bring them down. I get frustrated sometimes, but my intention always be a positive one. But I do want to read the read their body language. I don't want to get them upset. And I can cater some syllabus that's dedicated for Deon means. But when it's online, I can't read the language and I can really, if not, urgency is not as effective as online courses, but it helps. It really helps. The face-to-face class with a role teacher. No face-to-face class with a bright teacher. Absolutely. Go for it. How can I change court? Foster? The first one I would say practice, please. The more you practice, the more it gets better. There's no way that you practice the right thing and it gets worse. It only gets birds because you practiced the wrong thing. So make sure you practice the right thing. And I will say when you change a court, don't do it one by one thing. For example, we are changing C to G chord. If it's possible, just change. When you change, if it's possible. Press everything Shri to get a lot of student beginner, especially kids or elite tins. They tend to change the court one-by-one, what finger by another, by another. It takes time. It delays the whole process. So make sure if you can, when you practice, change everything at once. So when you press you press briefing at once, remember three fingers at one's moving onto the next question. Should I learned to read music? Because with guitar, there's another alternative, which is tap. Tap doesn't really require any music theory knowledge. You just learn them as number. But from time to time, I realize students thought looking at them as music. He started looking at them as just number. So the answer to the question of should I learned to read music is, if you can, you should start to get music as music. And you can. A lot of things. For example, today if you're tired of guitar, you want to switch it to panel. You can play it straight away at piano, maybe with a few, few warm up practice. You can play a lot of songs in PAN-OS fall because they work the same. Music notes like this is like a universal language. So maybe one day if you want to start a bend, maybe one day if you want to just switch between is shipments like Jacob Collier did. If you just read tab. That's for guitar only, you complete on piano. That if you have music, she was music notes. Yes, you can play it with piano, violin. So maybe one day if you want to start a band or whatever, and you only read tab and your team may pass you music nodes, you won't be able to get it. So if that's why, the reason why you start learning on Udemy is because you want to start at them with your friends. I really do suggest you to read, to learn music notes. And soon I will put up new courses about music notes as well. Maybe you can check out there. I answered to the short answer to the question, should I learn how to read music is yes, you should. Can IE clay. What I learn in classical guitar on acoustic guitar and electronic retired. So this tree guitars, the main difference is how they sound and gas syllabus. Actually, if you learn classical guitar, most of the music, It's Beethoven, Mozart, Bach. And if acoustic, most of the music is at Sharon Sharp Bendis. At electronic guitar, most of the types of music would be my chemical Romans linking part 21, pilot. It very much depends on what do you like do like rock music. Do you like acoustic music? Or do you like Manilow's songs? It very, very much depends on what you like. But yes, if today I've learned does yada yada of learn how to strum held constant, this has debt. You can apply the same thing with electronic guitar or acoustic guitar. They aren't seeing is just the sound different. And they are names, the knowns, and the skill. Everything works the same. They just don't sound the same. But the last question, what is the difference between still string and string guitar? Like I mentioned, steel strings, guitar, acoustic guitar. Nylon string guitars are classical guitar. Again, the main difference is how they saw. They don't have any different in terms of how to play, how to Strom, how to blog, the basic stuff is still there, but the fret is a little bit shorter and the fingerboard is a little bit narrower. So when you play you will have you, you're going to need like a tree minute to adjust just to get used to the fingerboard and stuff. But other than that, that's about the difference. That at the end of the day, that's about it. She is. The only difference is how they sound. And maybe you need some time to just switching for a classical guitar. Took a sticky time.