Transcripts
1. Intro: This class is all about
learning how to play guitar as an absolute beginner
from another beginner. And it has a little more
experience and skill than you. Hi everyone. My name is Alex. I'm going to begin that we'll be teaching you how
to play guitar. Hopefully by the
end of this course, you'll be already
a bit better and know how to play it are much
better than you started. This class is for beginners
and people who have never touched the top one
to learn how to play. However, it can also be useful
for those who do not plan, might want to pick up something
that they don't already. Myself will be using
an electric guitar. How are both electric and
acoustic guitars are okay? Am I even have an
acoustic guitar that I might even show off some
of the lessons and use it. In this course, we
will go through everything about how
to play the guitar, starting with small things
such as how to pick, how to naming components
of the guitar, or how to hold the guitar
and so on and going on to more difficult things such
as playing chords and so on. When we will end off
with actually playing songs that will be also led by me as there always be a demo of how to
play the song by me. So you will have
something to follow up or something to look at. I'll also put up
some resources above songs that you can
play and learning your own time by herself and practice by herself and
get better at them. Alongside learning
how to play a movie. Again, they're always be a
demo of me playing some of the songs that we will be
going through in this course. So if you ever get
stuck or want to see how the whole thing plays out, you can always
look at that. Can't wait to see you in the next class and
I hope you will join me and we can learn
how to play the guitar.
2. Exploring the Guitar: Hey, and welcome to
the first lesson. Today we are going to be
looking at the guitar, how to hold it different
components over. And we as well might move on to the tuning and how
to tune your guitar. So let's begin with
the guitar itself. How do you hold your guitar? All the way to
hold it is you put this curve on your knee. Obviously, if you're
right-handed, it will be on your right knee. And what you usually
do is you elevate that knee a bit higher than normal because if
you're just standing there, It's a bit, you can still play like that,
but it's a bit weird. So we'd like to do is put it higher, maybe
extending your sock, pull your leg on something
just a bit, a bit, make it a bit higher
than everything else. How do you
hold the guitar? You place the neck, which is this part
in your left hand, in the palm with
your right hand. And you place your right hand
on this curve right here. Now, it might feel a
bit weird at first. However you get used to it, but different people
played a bit differently. And I think that a big part of starting to play the
guitar is not really, not really thinking about how to correctly place where is it, where to start playing it? Because after a while
you get used to it in your own way and you'll understand how you like
to play the guitar. And that really matters. Now with the left hand,
it's a bit different. So usually what do you like to do is you hold
in your palm and you play with your four fingers. Now, the thumb. Some people do play as
well with their thumb. It is a thing. But that means that
your hand should be quite rotated this way. Whereas what people like to do, what will help you when you play is to rotate it this way, because this way you get a much bigger reach and
you can easily bar, for example, a cross,
cross strings. Whereas if you're
playing in this way, it's a bit, it's
much more difficult. So I recommend at first putting your thumb behind
the neck like that. And when you do that, you get a bigger reach
with your fingers. Your hand onto the board. Power. However, a lot of pro players, professional players
who play guitar, they played very unconventionally
and in their own way. So don't take example from them. Charter learning your way. Still learning the guitar. So there's still
some restrictions, but learning the way you feel more comfortable playing out, let's go over some parts of the guitar that are important. And now you might
refer to a new, we'll refer to later
on when you play. This whole part is
called the headstock. These are the tuning pegs
which tune the guitar. Then you have the nut, which the thing that all
the strings go through. Then you have the fret board, the whole thing across adult. This is called the
neck called frets. The 357912151719 are
called Fred markers. And they will help
you a lot when playing because you'll
easily understand when, where's the three words, the
57 and the 912 and so on. Very useful and very helpful. Obviously there's six strings. And at the end we have, for an electric guitar pickups. This is called the bridge, and as well as the saddle, which is this part right
here where it sits on. Now how do these
three things work? One of them is called
a volume knob, which basically turns off
or turn down your volume. The other one has voted a tone, which changes how, how much
present your high notes are. So if you play something, it makes it very
loud and I know it's not so loud that it's a bit
hard to tell the difference, but I hold the
mike, picks it up. Not listing. This changes the pickups. So as I said before,
these are 1234 pickups. But when this, the
amount of pickups vary. But on my guitar, for
example, there's four. So how does this thing work? When you play furthest
out to the left? When you play it like
that, it's only this big. When you change it. One up, these two pickups. When you change it
to one-up, It's just this pickup one-up. It's these one-off
its own. It is. Now changing your pickup, changes the sound and
slides just slightly changes in sound and how sound. Don't worry about it for now. You might come in handy
later. Thank you very much. And next lesson we're
gonna be looking at tuning and how the
tuning guitar as that is almost the most important
part when playing.
3. Tuning: Hey, welcome back. And today
we're looking at tuning and how do you tune your guitar so that it sounds nice
and you can play. Finally, start playing it. As we looked at in
the previous video, these are called
the tuning pegs, and they're responsible
for six strings. 62 impacts six strings. The arrangement is
sometimes different. Sometimes you have for stealing
things here to here or 33 depends, doesn't
change anything. The way they work is you have a peg here and it's
responsible for a string. So forgetful, this
very first one is responsible for
the first string. The second one is responsible
for the next string down. Next one is responsible for the next string down, and so on. Let's look at the E
string from Apple, right? If I turn this so up, right? This way, I'm gonna
make it more sharp, or in other words,
a higher tone. Now if I turn it clockwise, I'm going to make it more flat, or in other words, a lower tone. And the whole point of tuning is that you go up, down, up, down, until you find that perfect tone that you're Eastern, for
example, sunlight. And you do that for
every single know. However, a question arises, how do I know which told
me is the correct one? If you don't have perfect pitch. And then there's two, well, which for the most
part known as, there's two ways to do it. First way is this thing, which is called a tuner.
And it's a physical tool. They come in different
shapes, sizes, and forms. Some of them you
just play, some of them you put onto the guitar. And they're usually much more accurate than in online one. However, an online one
is another way of doing it and it was also
pretty accurate. So forgotten how to
use one like mine, which you It's very old, so I doubt you want to
have while you're here, but you place it onto the
guitar so it doesn't touch any string on the neck, it
will be better like that. Turn it on. And what's going to
happen is it's going to show you a bar. Different bars. You play, something red
thing would appear. Now the closer it is to the
correct node, the most room. Greg, number two, unknowns. So you want the right, it
shows you the note here. Should be the material
doesn't really work, but the online one, because it still
works quite well. For the online tuner. I
recommend guitar tuner. And I'll have a demonstration of the screen of how it
looks like and how it works. But basically you
just turn it on. Wait for it to turn on. You press the string, the E string, for example,
when you play. Now circle or view that will go from the center line to the left or the right. To the left means it's too flat to the right instance too sharp. So if it's to the left, that means you have to turn the knob anticlockwise
to make it more sharp until it's in the middle of nowhere you want is for it to be in the middle. For the thing to be green. It has to be exactly
perfectly in the middle, but it should be as close to the middle as
possible if not write on it, because that makes
the best ear sound. If it goes to mind to the left, to the right, that means you
have to make it flatter. Less tone, less lower tone,
therefore, turning clockwise. Then you go to the
next string, a string. Then you do that for
every single string. Sounds something like this. Now, if you want to
play some other, not so difficult, but some other songs by different bands. They use different tunings. For example, like a drop
sea tuning or an eating. And what that does is it drastically changes
how string sound. And usually on different
online tuners and stuff, a 100 and do that unless
you pay money and by ear, you can do it. But again, you have to have
pretty good sense of pitch. But there is a way to do it
which is online on YouTube. Usually there are videos like a drop sea tuning and shows every single string or
plays every single string. And then it plays all
the strings together. And that way you can try to
hear and tune it to that. That is not for everyone though, because not everyone can do it, but personally I can. And maybe you can ask
a friend who does have good hearing
to do it for you. But that is how you
tune guitar is quite simple and just revolves
around these six things.
4. 1 Song, Picks, Tabs: Everyone, welcome back.
And today we're gonna be looking at actually starting
to play the guitar. But just before that app, two more things to teach you. How to hold a pick and
how do we read tabs? So for the first thing,
right, how do you hold a pig? You hold it with your thumb
and your index finger. Now, the other 43 fingers, they can do absolutely
whatever they want. Some people hold them
out like that when they play, fold them down. My hand kindness
passes out at night. And it's kind of
like that, that gla, it just depends on you and
you forgot to go again. It's all about you and how you feel comfortable
playing the guitar. As long as you're playing.
That's what matters. Now with this two fingers holding holding when
I first started, that was my very
big question I had. So you hold it by, you bend
your finger in this shape. You then place the pick
that as 123 sites. This one is the one you
play with, right? The peak. You place these two on the joint of this and
the tip of your finger. That way, the other third side becomes write on this joint, on this first finger joint. And then you just slam
your thumb onto it. Just like that. So you kinda mimic the
shape of your finger with That's how you know, as you play you, it will slightly shift up
and down to your own liking. Again, that's what
really matters here. Second thing, how do
you read data sheet? That is very simple. If you open a template and one is going to be
on screen right now, you're going to see six
lines with numbers on them. How do you read that?
Well, if you take your guitar and you turn it strings up, so
they're facing you. Leaders or six lines
you see on the screen. That is the exact same thing. So every line corresponds
to a string with the most bottom line being the E string and
the tall height, the top line being
the highest string. So whenever you see now the numbers represent the
nodes on those strings. So whenever you see a
number on one of the lines, that means you got to play
a note on that string. So it's the E, G, B, E. Okay? Now what are the numbers? The numbers represented a threat your plane on that string. So either the Fred
says we learned. Now if it says for example, three on the most bottom string, multiple online, and it's
the three on the E string. Okay? Now if it says, for example, five on the fourth
string from the bottom up, then it's not. Now the last thing is reading it from left to right.
So how do you read? You read left to right, and you imagine yourself having a vertical line
that goes through, through the tab from left to right. And that is the order. So whatever that line hits first isn't all
you played first and then whatever the line comes across after
you play after that. So let's look at the song
which is the top going atom. Dramatic when considering
this movie came out. Let's look at that song
and how you play it. It's very simple,
the theme to it. And it's going to start on the fifth fret on the G string. Firstname. Now what I
recommend doing for the song is bar barring across
the three strings. And what's a bar?
Bar is when you do, you make your finger
as flat as possible. And you put it all across
the three strings. From so from the tip of your finger where your
blank pressure to the very back of your finger over here. You're
pressing on it. What that does is
allows you to play all the three strings
on the fifth fret. Instead of having to go
to each, for each string. I have a convenience thing
more than anything else. And when you're playing,
you're trying to be as convenient as possible.
So forgotten. And this one, I know
that the first note is the fifth fret
of the G string. I know that there's not gonna
be any other node below it. There's no point using
any other finger. So if I use, for example here, there's no point because
all these fingers are null, has to be moved
all the way here. Because I know the
next node is gonna be on the eighth fret
of the B string. So I'm trying to do is
clean as possible and therefore I'm borrowing
on the fifth. Pressing against
some kind of using my my index fingers joint are here to help me press against the
back of the guitar. Then without releasing it, I'm going to play the eight, the eighth fret of
the B string twice. Now I'm going to play sixth
fret on the B string. Now, since this is Bard is
gonna be 65 on the B6 five. Again, that's convenience
thing because now you don't have to
go to the five. You just as you
hold it down from the beginning, it's
already helping you. So you play six open. Openness in your second
finger together. Good, right? Okay, now I've played
a seventh fret on the G string twice. Then you play the open the
goal with your finger. And again, the five
is holding down. You played by having
the G seven on the G five and then you place
seven over 500 me again. Six hundred five hundred me. Know what you do is go to slide. And what's the
slide is like that. Now, the first tip
I want to give is that when you do a slide, try to not push as
hard as you can. You don't have to
destroy the finger and your string out or to slide. Or you have to do
is just lightly tap it and drag it across. And you can see
I'm not even using my back of my hand to push against the
neck of the guitar. This, because it's
so light, right? You're just done. I played as you pushing the
three, we pluck the string. Just like nothing else. Very, very simple. Mistakes on your slide. Then you go back to the
three and you played twice. Split again slowly. In real time will
be much faster, but this heart sounds. Now we have to do is repeat what I told you just now slowly, and of course we'll
come up to speed. Next part of the song is played on the exact same thing
as plate, but higher. Now what's interesting is the higher you go up the fret board, the smaller the spaces
between the frets become. So in the first and
the first fret, the one next to that
not, as you can tell, it's huge here. The first verse number
over here on the 12th, you can barely see
your finger in. It's just a cool
side note on here. Same thing displayed again. But instead, it's a
continuation of the song. Instead, you play it
on the 10th fret. So then thread
becomes your fifth fret bar across the free, three high strings
on the ten threat. And you play the
exact same thing. You play 1012131414 on the B, twice 1211 on the beat. G twice 101111, and it'd be 13 on the G.
Lemon on the B to B. 11 on the, on the 11 on the G. Slide from nine to 11. From nine to 11 on the B
string, on the G string. So it sounds
something like this. And that is how you
play Top Gun theme. And hopefully, but in
this lesson you've learned how to read a tab and a bar and a slide, as well as how to
hold your pick. Now, I'll help in my resources. Some songs that you can
practice that are like this song got a very simple
and just played note by note. There'll be much
simpler ones as well. Maybe from some nursery
rhymes and stuff, and also some rock
songs that have a simplified version of
them that you can practice in your time gamete you
see in the next lesson.
5. Chords: Hello everyone. In this class, we're going to be
moving onto cords. How to play them, what they are, how they are going to transform your game onto a completely
different level. So to begin with,
let's recap a bit. What were their last time? Nodes or songs that are
played with just nodes. So you just want
string and one node. Whereas now we're gonna be
learning what courts are. Courts are when you play multiple string
at the same time, making all the nodes come together to make a better sound. For example, that is a cord. Or in other words, these are courts. And as you can see here, they sound very nicely. And if you put multiple of them together,
you can make a song. And these are often
called four chord songs because there are songs that
are made of four chords. And that is very, it's
very easy to make. You can make them
your own because they're Lorentzian amount. Of course there's a
lot of chords and you can put them together,
put some words on it. And that is a song that is
actually going to be part of your project that we're
going to look at later on. So now let's look at some
of the chords that you can play and practice. Before we jump into a song, which will be in
the next lesson. I'll place them right now and there'll be
some on the screen. Any given point, you can
search up accord or you can switch up chords on the guitar. It will give you, I will
give you a diagram, like the one on the
screen right now that will show you where do you, where do you have to
put your fingers in order to make that
chord that sound? Now, it's your job to put them as efficiently
as possible. For example, this course,
which is called the a minor. I played with my three fingers. I could play it with like that. But you can tell it's very
uncomfortable because this fingers just like that, whereas in this case is much easier and much
more comfortable. So as it said previously
in the previous lesson, you have to optimize your
playing so it's easier for you. And that is one example of such. So let's look at some of the courts and you can practice
some on your own time. This is called the
a minor chord. Lot of songs have the core,
which is the E minor. Then there's the gene C, D minor, D and a seven. In the next lesson, we're
actually going to start playing a song and
I'll go through with you one of the
songs you can play with courts hope to see
you in the next lesson.
6. Viva la Vida Practice: Hello everyone. In this class we're going
to be looking how to play a very famous song named people
have either bike or play. And we're gonna go through
how to play it or by cord. And more specifically, the main roof of the song which you
just heard in the beginning. So to start off, we're not going to look at
the right hand for now. Right hand we're going
to look at later, next lesson on how to correctly strong and how
to make different pattern. So let's now focus
on the left hand and how to correctly
plate on the left hand. So the main roof of the song, as I said in the
previous lesson, is comprised of four chords. For cortisone, which
is the C chord, the D chord, the G chord, and the E minor chord. Now all these courts put
together make up the song. So let's begin. You're going to have the tabs on the screen as we're playing. So let's look at
the first quarter, which is the, sorry, the secret. Third finger on the third finger on the third fret
of the a string. Second finger on the second
fret of the D string, and first finger on the first.
7. Strumming : Hey everyone In today's
class we are going to be looking at
strumming and how to correctly play
with your right hand when you're
playing in his song. So we already looked
at the left-hand in the past few
classes with chords and notes and dabs Howard in this class we're looking at strumming and your right hand, how to correctly use it. So at first, let me give
a tip, which is the firm. Whenever you're playing in the beginning, you
have to be firm. It might not sound great, but you will come around. What I mean by
when I say Be firm is the strong on your hands. So if I forgot will turn off the sound was going
to be a bit loud. But so as you can tell, I'm touching every single string as I'm going up and down. At this level, we don't have to bother about narcotics
restaurants. But what I, what I'm telling
you to avoid is missing strings and being a bit scared or maybe playing it too
loud or incorrectly. So don't do this. So different when you play. Now, how are you strong? Very basic, very easy
thing is obviously, take your pick, you
take your head, you place your hand, as I said, Long before on your end
you just up and down. Now the movement comes
from your elbow. Your elbow moves up and down. However, your wrist also
slightly moves and so do your fingers a bit like so. Where your thumb your thumb was just a bit in order to push on the PEC and
keep it in place. Your wrist moves a bit as well. And so does your elbow. Movement of the whole hand. Of course, different songs, different musicians
incorporated differently. Some people just play with your wrist if you're
playing a certain solo, for example, you just need
your wrist and fingers. But for now, just basic
arm ***** movement. Just practice going up and down. You're comfortable with
that. Start playing some chords that we
learned last time. That you can search up
yourself, such as for example, and going between them one
core to the next to next. Just keep going up and down
with your strumming hand. And that's it. That is the very simplest
way to strap in play. However, obviously, if you
want to place her songs, don't want to just strung up and down, up
and down, up and down. Because it obviously
doesn't fit the song. For example, if we take the
vehicle, the vehicle song, which we last time, it has a very distinctive
beat, which is good. And it repeats. And
repeats again and again. Now you can recreate
that beat on the guitar. And that's how you
actually play the song. So once you get
comfortable with that, you have to get comfortable
with changing chords. That is very important. Now
you can change the chord. So when you scroll down and
you can change the chord. So when you play it down. So I struck down a minor and then a strong
homeowners C or I can do the exact same thing. Right. Because you always
playing a minor and see any changes it just slightly because when
you're playing it down, it's more of a higher node. Whereas if you're
playing it from up down, it's more of a lower note. It's very hard to tell
the difference and it's very minute, but it exists. So once, only once you get comfortable with
changing hoards, can you start doing,
which is the next thing, which is flying a beat
to your strumming hand. Now what's important is
that your strumming hand, your right hand, you can
do whatever it wants. So you can either play the
people living in a song, like we just said, just basic up and down. It sounds fine. Along the same same
Latinos, right? Or you can play just
everything going down, just excluding any upward. Or you can actually make it a beat with those
down-strokes, which is so by adding pauses in there, you're making that noise Meet. Or you can play with
up and down strokes. Now this is how you
do with up and down. You have to recreate the beat. Remember, there's always
have to be posted in there. Too. Slow and speeds up right? There's a pause in there. Down stroke. That's just up, down, up, down, up, down, down. Slowly. But foster noticed a bit different. When I play it. Instead of going down, I played down,
then I go back up. Downstroke again. The lesson here is that your right hand can do
whatever it wants, right? You can play however you want, as long as it recreates
the same melody. To a, to an ear that has heard the song many times in all
how it knows how it goes. It will sound the weird or bit different every time you play it because it does sound
a bit different. However, to the
majority of people, you won't hear the
difference whether you play or if you play right heads. You can do however you want. I play when I play it, I don't really like blame
when I changed my board. So I played down twice. Just a comfort thing. You can do whatever you want. For speed. That is how you strong with your
right hand on your time. Hope to see you in
the next class.
8. Power Chords, Iron Man: Hey everyone. And since we've already
learned how to do everything, every single simple
thing on the guitar, we're going to want
something even simpler, something that will enhance
replaying a bit better, which is power chords. Now what are power cords? Power chords are
chords that you play that substitute other nodes in a song and can
make the song much simpler and yet
sound just the same. For example, many
different songs are written using power chords. Like smelled like Keats
spirit by Nirvana. It is role playing power chords. Right? All in power chords. This creek Bob,
also a backwards. Lithium has power courts do. Okay, so where are they? A power chord is when you play, you use your index finger
and your ring finger and your pinky to
play three notes, three strings at the same time. Now when you play,
you play them. You play for, for example, you play on the E string, first fret of the E string, a string, and third
fret on the D string. That is the shape. First, you play your first
finger on one string. Your third, fourth, sorry, third fourth thing or
you play it on them. You play them on the fret, one after the next
three. Just like that. Good move that shape. Your second finger
doesn't do anything here. Just sit here. Write some songs. I use it to mute.
But that's later. So it just sits here. So you only use
your three fingers. Like so. As you can tell, it's powerful, it's very strong. Noise, power coordinates. So let's look at a song. They use power chords, which
is Ironman by Black Sabbath. And it plays like so. It's a bit up the neck. So it's maybe something
you can learn. Simple riff, Very easy to play. Our chord on the
seventh string or not. So ninth fret. Now, Central Park or the cell for seven
on the E string, nine on the a and D string. And you only play the
three, the three nodes. Over here. Of course, you can strum
all the other ones. But as you can tell,
it sounds a bit weird. So we can do to
help yourself out is use your pinky over here. Instead of accurately
pressing on the ninth fret of the D string, use it to almost like a, a bar on, but you
press it down a bit. You move your hand
down, you press down it mute all
the other strings. After it sits, you're
not playing them. It's even better. Now
listen very used to play. All you need to do is slide. So Sanford, slide the whole
shape down to three, sorry. And you end up on the 10th fret. Stronger. Slide again on the 12th fret. So 12 Monday. The B and 1414 on the a and D. So again, playing slide. Then you slide again
to the 15th fret. On the a, 17 on
the, on the east, 17 on the a and the D or the other slide. And then you slide up one. The whole thing, the
whole shape, right? Then you go back
without sliding. Place like that again together. So from the late twice, then you go back to that. Then you go back
to the ten Friday. Go back to the 12th
threat altogether. So in this whole song
you are sliding. We're not, we're never
taking this bar shape of the strengths and were never stopping, stopping the blame. The only time we're not
sliding is when we're going from 15 to 14, right? We're back, we're
just letting go. So therefore, very easy. So if this is a bit difficult, you can play the same thing just on one string,
office lighting. So it's seven, like that. Plato Slido 1514, life
place like the 1414. Hi Leo the tenth,
slated to open. Altogether again. The bar
chord shape does not shift. It does not, it does not change. Anyhow, all you're doing is
you're pressing it down. Now you're just sliding
across the neck. That's how you play. I remember Black
Sabbath and that is a little crash course on
Court's power chords up. See you in the next class.
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit: Hey everyone, welcome
back to our class. And today we're
gonna be looking at a bit of a more difficult song, one that I struggled with a lot. And it took me a lot, a lot, a lot of practice in
order to get it down. It is, although a
very simple song, as smells like Team
Spirit by Nirvana, it is fully played
in bar chords. However, there is a solo obviously that is not
bar chords and there's a little while the song then
is again, quite easy. But there is a new element incorporated into it that we haven't learned before,
which is muting. Now, how does this work? Here's the song itself, right? The intro Harvard to it. How do you play? First bark order, the
first, first threat. So first third, right? Then you mute. Mute. To me, all I do is since I'm
playing the board board, so I'm only playing the
first three strings anyways. I let go of the strings just like that, so
I'm touching them. But I left foot
pressing on them. So touching them.
And I played up, up, down, up, down. That's it. Now the hard part that
I struggled with, you move this whole
shape down one string. So everything goes down string. Now here's where
you need the second finger to help you out. This finger is going
to be touching the E string when
you got to unmute. So move down and you play
the exact same thing. This finger is getting
this E string. So you don't play it. Technically, you
could just play it without playing the
E string, right? However, I, I struggled
playing just from the second, from the, remember
when on the G string. And Scott are prone to mistake. If you're playing it
live or whatever, you much rather just stay calm it down top, top to bottom. And it plays out correctly. So again, Sorry, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, move down. One string. So first fret on the E string, third fret on the
D and G string. Second finger just touches, lightly touches this E string. Now you move the whole thing back to the string
on the fourth fret. First finger on the fourth
fret of the E string. Third, fourth finger on the
sixth fret of the D string. Same thing. Then you move the whole
shape down one string. And again you use your finger to the E string altogether slowly. And throw the whole versus
the first fret of the E and B string via a bit faster. It's now if you heard it played, I mean, I, in the very end, I play one note. So after I play it, first read minute, I mute just
a bit, just for one note. Play both in Europe
and ambling here. What that does is that it
gives it that sound more. So not only do you get it from, from this mute, but
you also get a D. And again, it makes
it more of a dune and then it gives it that vibe more. And the whole thing rows, and that's how it ends as well. And that is how you
play smelled like his spirit by Nirvana.
10. How To Practice Efficiently: Hey everyone. Today we're going to
have a non guitar yet still educational
lesson on how you can practice
more efficiently and get better faster
at playing guitar. And before we will move
on to anything else, I just want to say
that the very first and most important thing
that you should do, which is it is practice,
practice, practice, practice. Sit down by herself
every day and practice. Whatever it is you played, whether you're trying
to song or whether you're playing
something by yourself, you have to do it and
you have to sit down, you have to do it yourself. Now, it doesn't matter if
you're succeeding or not. So for example, for sit down, you're playing some
electing spirit. You can't get it down. Played for 30
minutes straight and you're still not,
you're not great at it. Keep doing it, keep doing it. Because eventually
it is impossible for you to not play it. Even if you play it incorrectly, you will still eventually play. So practice. Second thing starts slow. If you, if you start slow
and you build up the temple, you are certainly
going to do much better than if you
start fast and fail. And fail. If you start slow and
you build out the tempo, you're going to learn
it much faster. If you start fast, you're going to take
so much longer to learn that something you
will eventually still have to do it slower because
you can't do it as fast as the author intended to be. Now, moving on to other things. There are, there are tutorials online on
how to play songs, and they are done
in different ways, but they're done much better than you can
find anywhere else. My personal favorites
or guitar lesson 365, which has a lot of songs. The guy Karl Brown, he has, I mean, I can't I can't even quantify the amount of tutorials
on absolutely. Different different
songs, different styles, different genres, jazz, rock, classical, or even
pop, anything. And my favorite thing about it is that each
of these lessons, they have a different
camera angles. So you can really
understand what it is he's playing and
how he's playing it. Another one that does
a very similar thing, it is modern music. Modern music does it
a bit differently. It has a different style to it. However, he does the
absolute same thing, which is guitar lessons, and does them very, very well. So these two martyr
using it are less 365. You should check them out because they are very
good if you're stuck on a solid where if you're
trying to learn a song here and you can really understand
how to do it by yourself. These two people who
help you out a lot. Now on a different note, Sara Jane music was this. This is a girl that covers, or at least long, many years ago, six years ago. Here's the cover songs. When I first stumbled across where
I realized something, she started, she covers songs
that are very difficult. Some of them are quite
difficult. For example, at some point she covers
areas by systems of a noun. Or another point she covers
toxic waste systems are down. It is not an easy song, but she plays it in an easy way. She, she simplifies the
courts to an extent that you still get the
same, the same melody. But it's much easier to play. That really inspired me because
I realized that you don't have to play a song
exactly as it was written. Because if you can
recreate the same music, the same sound, it doesn't
have to be perfect. He or she does
Stairway to Heaven, which is very far from
an easy song to play, especially to play perfectly, but she plays it differently, yet still the same song. And it's really nice. I think you should check it out. It could help you out a lot to understand that you don't
have to play songs. So seriously, and you don't
have to take it seriously. As I said in some
of my tutorials, it's about you and
how you can do it. There are many guitarist who out there who
didn't have it. You don't have anyone. They just sat down on
the plate and if they could pick it up by ear
and they could play it, it's not a correct O
power to them, right? So again, this is very great. You can only tell how
exactly she plays in life. She doesn't put on any tabs
or anything on the screen, so you can't really
copy what she does. You can copy the mindset and that's I think
is very important. Now, moving on to
how do you actually find the tabs and the
songs and the chords? The ultimate guitar
com.com, absolutely. The best website. This website you can find every single song and
for the majority, every single software, most
part everything goes on. There are very little songs
that are not on this website. And they are done by people. And they are covered on guitar, ukulele, piano, electric number. Let's click on
perfect match here. It gives you every core
equally the piano. Obviously we're not
doing that, but every chord that's
going to be played, it gives you the
strumming pattern that you can listen to. Four different parts. Tells you if you need a capital, tells you what key
it's in, tells you. It gives you a
little explanation. If there's something
you wouldn't understand that the author
intended to understand, then it goes through the
whole song with every lyric. And it puts a cord above Award. And that is when you're
meant to play that chord, the intro, the everything
is absolutely perfect. You can also change the font. You can increase,
decrease the font. You can make scrolls by itself. So if you're playing, you could play it and you
can slowly scroll. So this calls for you
that you don't have to manually scroll every time you go to the bottom
of the screen. Now what's my favorite
feature is the versions. Every time a person makes these different people different, make
different versions. And every version
is rated as a five obviously and rated by people. So you can tell how
many people rated at 40 thousand people read it. And it's five-star rating, which means probably very
good and very accurate. It doesn't have to be very good and very accurate
because you can click on any of them and you
can try playing it if it doesn't fit you
or if you don't like, if it's too hard, you
can always switch. Sometimes the most
famous version or the most recognized version, might be too hard to play. This isn't, but
sometimes it might be because that is actually called you
play it for example, but you can find a simpler version coming back
to its origin. Music that sounds
exactly the same, but it's simpler
and easier to play. This side has any song, give me any song you think of. Smells like Teen Spirit,
right? For example. There. You can have unfathomably
large amount of team spirit covers
exactly how he played, giving you a song, comments, you are again multiple,
multiple, multiple covers. Click on any chord stamps. Now when it says
course that means is going to be
played with chords. When it says tab, that means it's going
to be played with tabs. These I told you how to read. Very easy, very simple stuff. Great website that you
can use an egg nature a lot in learning how to play the guitar and
doing it so effectively. But coming back to
the main, main and most important thing, practice. If you practice, you're
gonna get better. So sit down and do it. Obviously you my next class.
11. Project: Hey everyone. And so
the very first class is to make a song,
any kind of song. Anyway, you like, you
can either use notes, you can use courts. Are courts, bars. You can incorporate
all of them together. Straw however you want,
do whatever you want. But you meant to make a salt. And it can be, let's say, at least 30 seconds long or 30 seconds to two minutes,
any way you like. And if you really want to, you can make some
words for it and play it all together and
see how you like it. Can wait to see them.
12. Outro: Thank you for listening
to this whole class and willing to get better and learning all
the way through it. Hopefully you learn something. Hopefully you are now
a much better player. If you're just a beginner, you just because
you're covering, you came across my class. I hope you are doing
much better now. I hope you can play some songs. Remember, you have to practice, and if you practice,
you're gonna get better. And that's the very basic, very most important part
of playing the guitar. Many very famous musicians, they didn't have a
curator, didn't have anything but just themselves
and their guitar. And they sit down the
practice than they are now. Well, for class guitarists. And thank you again
for taking this class. I really hope it helped.
Alex_M, To make you greater!
