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1. What's Special About this Beginner Guitar Class?: Hi and welcome to my
course on beginner guitar. We're going to cover
your first 30 days of playing guitar
in under 30 min. We are lucky enough to
be joined by batteries, which is a professional
singer and piano player, but she never played
guitar before. I will be teaching you as
well as her own person. So you might see in action the most common
mistakes beginners have. So what we'll be doing
in this course is covering the entire basics,
giving you exercises, and explaining your
journey from being a total beginner who never held a guitar to play in
your first songs? Regular guitar. And
let's get going.
2. How to Hold a Guitar Properly : The first lesson we're going to learn how to hold
an acoustic guitar. It might sound a bit silly, but it's actually
way trickier than it sounds for a total beginner. There are two ways to do it. The first one is a
traditional way. We see a guitar players play, or guitar players in movies, which is holding the
guitar in your right lap. If you're right handed on your left lap, if
you're left-handed. Now, the good way to do it is to actually sit on
the edge of the chair, have the body of the guitar
resting against yours and heavier forearm let loose on the upper body of
the guitar like this. Now, there is also a
second way to do it, which is the classical position, which is very useful if
you're going to play like tricky chords and is very
useful for little children. The second way is
holding a guitar on your left lap if you're
right-handed and the opposite, if you're left-handed,
you hold the guitar. You left, left, like this with a fourt almost 45-degree angle. What this does is
actually gives you a better position for the
left hand to further knows, because you have a wider raise
your hand can reach five wiser and it's easier
to access lower frets. It's also easier for the right hand if you
know already how to swim. It's also easier
to strap because your hand is on a
better position. This is also often avoided by electric guitar players
and acoustic guitar players. And it's softer, more related to classical guitar players who play finger style guitar,
classical pieces. The second thing you have to
know on your first lesson, on your first day
of playing guitar. It's also the different
parts of the guitar. This is the body of the guitar. Each guitar for different
body style. This is e.g. a. Concerto by the style. This is a threatening
note about his style. This is a guitar bridge. When the strings run through
the neck of the guitar. And the tuning case, the headstock on the
guitar the entire bit. Now the tuning keys job is just as he described
it to look good, are going left or right. And the other thing that you
have to know is the frets. So the small pieces
here, alcohol frets. And each fret is
a different node. That's what you need
to know by now. On the other bits, we're
gonna go to the next lesson.
3. Get Your Hands in Shape: For our first lesson, we're going to do some
finger exercises just to get some independence out of your
left and your right hand. The first thing I
want to teach you is a bit of finger picking. Now, you have to place
your right hand on the guitar strings using a form of a claw with
your four fingers, the pinky finger that
you used to pick, but it's very important
to coordinate your hand. Now we have the
four fingers and we put them like this
on the guitar. Perfect. Your thumb
is over the E string, and your other three
fingers are at the bottom three strings, a
form of o'clock. That's perfect. Now, we are going to play each of the
strings using the sum. And the trick is whenever
you play the first ring, you have to rest your
thumb on the second. And since we're at it,
we're also going to learn the names of the strings, the bottom string or
the tough spring, depending on where
you start counting, is the low E. Okay, perfect. So as you see, it's
very well on that because you play the lottery and you're asked on
the other string. Now, we do the same thing
for the hole strings. And we also named the
springs for doing it. The second string is the a. The third string is a D. The fourth string is the G. Perfect. Yes, we always
assume for the moment, the fifth string is the B, and the sixth string is the E. Perfect. Notice that we have
Dewey's Loewy and a high. And if I play them
both at the same time, you can sort of tell that it's the same sound, the same note, but they're just
different contexts are different actors,
how we call them. Now, again, the name of the strings while playing
them with your thumb, E, D, and E. Okay, Perfect. Now to switch a bit
to the left hand. Can you hold your left hand? Okay. Now, the trick is your thumb, even though it doesn't
spread this drinks, it's actually just a
guide if your left hand. And this is where many
beginners get stuck. Because many beginners tend to actually don't care about
the position of the sample. You should hold your thumb as closer to the center of
the back of the guitar. It's a bit hard to explain, but you will feel
it when it's right. So hold your thumb as close
to the center as you feel. Yes. Now, what I want you to do, just place your index finger
on your first fret. Perfect. Okay. The second trick,
or the second part of that most beginners
gets stuck is how to properly flatten out. And this is something
I've seen also an intermediate players
don't do totally right? When you flatten out, you go as close to
the fret as possible, but you don't touch the fret. Beginners have an issue
of touching the frets. But if you touch
it, it kinda buses. Intermediate player
have an issue of not forgetting to close
this for also for the people who
skipped a lesson or to put it as close as possible. Perfect. Let's remember when you play with your
thumb wrestling. Now, it's normal on your first
days to actually get about sound because your hand and
get used to the motion. This is where we build
what's called muscle memory. So it becomes second nature. Now, play it again. Perfect. Now, what I want you to do is while holding your
first finger down, put your second finger
on the second fret. Perfect. That's very good. Now, same thing for
the third finger. If you can do it. It's perfect. Now here's
where things start to become tricky because you
get to a wider stretch. You can try to do it with
your pinky on the first fret. Perfect. You're doing absolutely greater. Their batteries is lucky
because she has long fingers, but even if your hand is
small, don't worry about it. You just need to be the
four on your thumb. And the thing is, if you
start getting buses, it means that either
you are not operating properly closer to the
fret but not touching it, or your thumb is in
the wrong place. So what you have to do is just play around
with your thumb. The lower it is, the closer
to the center it is, the higher your hand is, and the more perpendicular, 90 degrees it is
to the fretboard. And that helps the exercise that you have to do right now is the combination of sand
on your right hand. While threatened going out,
it's going to be slowly. Try to keep these fingers. Yes. Can we remove them? It's harder when you keep
the fingers down, isn't it? Yeah. Exactly. Normally
in guitar playing, you can do both and it's fine. But since our goal now
is to play them faster, not to play them on time, We should just care about
stretching the hands a bit and actually make
sure that they are clean. So if you can manage
to do it with them, sit down, it's pretty
easy to raise them. And the temptation would
be to raise the fingers, but try to fight
it for the moment. Let's start with the first fret. Second. Perfect sir. Forth. Okay, That's very good. I mean, you can notice there
is some buzzing and that's perfectly normal, like I told you,
even intermediate, sometimes even pros
get some buzzing. Because there is
also another trick which I'm going to
tell you right now. If you press down too hard, you will get a bus
and you will need will change the
pitch of the note. When it comes to the
strength of pressing down, many people get it wrong. And I don't even blame you because nobody actually
explain to you how strongly our tough
you have to be like putting down your fingers. The way to visualize this, that you just need to apply as much power as to
get the note out. Not anymore. Not any less for your first week or
first couple of weeks. It's perfectly normal
to actually get buses just from pressing
down too hard or too soft, your hand will
eventually settled down, but so that you will learn it properly
from the beginning. Do some tests. If you see that, you can release a bit of tension and it still sounds good. Release it, it just a matter of practicing and just think
about it commercially. It's like how softly can attach. Okay, now we repeat the same exercise on
the whole syrinx. We're just gonna do it
for two strings are now, but I want you at home as your first part
of your project, your first exercise
to just do this for at least five
to 10 min a day. Now let's go for
the second string. Within a string. Start from the first. Perfect. Perfect. Very good. That's perfect. Okay. What you have to do now that you've got it
on the first fret. It's actually move
up the fret board. Moving up the fret board, it's gonna be easier
because moral go to the right or to the top of the frets. The
smaller the threads. Good. I want you to do the
exercise to try it firstly on the first fret because it stretches or wider, it's
going to help your hand. But if you have
small hands or we just are not feeling the pressure of doing
it immediately. You can start on the
fifth fret, 2345. Perfect. Even notice that
the fifth, 79.12 have dots. The dots are just
for orienting you. They don't have a higher
purpose in theory or anything. It's just for guitar players to actually get
orientate themselves. And there are players
who actually don't really like to having them
on the guitar like I do e.g. I. Always prefer guitars with some friends were just
for teaching purposes. We have the analyst. No
points on the fret, sorry. Okay. Let's start on the fifth
fret. It easy, right? Yeah. Okay. So this is a basic hand
exercises that you should do. You should do them even when you start playing
your first songs. Because I bet most of
you probably by now just know if you call
the learn online, but the struggle or keeping them perfectly clean, sounding clean. These exercises,
you want to go back to all this and you
have issues with that.
4. First Chords : Now to learn your
first guitar chords, I'm sure that you already looked up some live lessons before, probably learning some
simple chords and simple songs that I
want to take right now is to teach Beatrice who never play the chord before
how to play the chords. Just so you can see for yourself the problems that
you might relate to. And so it can give a
quick fix to those. The first chord that
we're going to learn is the E minor is the most
basic of the course. What you have to do, and you guys at home is
take your two fingers, the middle finger
and the ring finger. And middle finger on the second fret of the a
string, the second string. That's it. I'm always close to the
fret but not touching it. Your pinky sorry, your
ring finger as does the same thing but on the spring below the second fret
of the D string. Okay, Now, remember, your sum is in the wrong
position, like we talked before. Your thumb should be
below for the moment. Probably if it's close to
the center of the back of the neck of the guitar.
That's very good. That's very good. You do now is like
battery's dead strum. I mean, just slightly run
your thumb over the string. You want to do this slow
because you want to check that every string brings out
nicely. Can you play again? It's very good. What are the problems that
can happen at this point? If you place your funky place your thumb on your
marketing before you play. Now, you see that you have some problems that everybody has in the
beginning. Why does it happen? That happens because if your hand is not
sitting straight, like not 90 degree but close
to that with the guitar. Then the meat from your fingers, we're going to stop the strings. And you're going to
have either a bus. Either. You're going to have
this muted sound. You want to avoid
that only by using, by being smart and
using your thumb and put it on the back
of the guitar neck. And of course, Fred, always as close as
possible to the frets. Can you do it again? It's very, very good. Now, I want you to
decide the whole string. Just split them individually. That's perfect. When you hear a bus, just
think about it consciously. I doing something, right? Yes or no. And my fretting as close as possible, yes or no. One very important thing. Am I just fretting
too hard on this? Because sometimes your
friends too hard, you get a bus because
it's just the way the strings vibrate
and or so try to just release a B the Tasha
and be as calm and chill as possible while playing
because it helps a lot. Do you feel like how
the guitar resonates? It gets your body when
you play the card. Sorry, do you feel like
when you play guitar chord, how the body resonates
against the hours. You start to feel
like a vibration. I mean, it's the same
logic as we are singing in a way because you kind of
feel the vibration is right. It's an odd thing to explain, but you know, when
you're playing it, right, even by
filling the guitar, sometimes the other chord, which is a hack, because the only thing that
you have to do is place your index finger on the
first fret of the G string. Search things starting
from the bottom. Okay. Tried on the third string
starting from the bottom? Yes. Right below
the fingers here. So it's the E minor. You just put the index finger down on the string, the legs? Yes. It had some yes. The buzzer is normal. And you know why you
had the buzzing? It's because when you place your index finger
on the first fret here, you risk muting the string below with the meat
from this finger. This is what happened
because buzzing is just a slight way of
muting in a certain way. Now, how do you fix that? You fix that by working with your thumb and holding
your hands straight. Better. Go again. Okay. This is why you have to
play like not strongly, but play softly the strings and your buzzy now is coming
from the a string. Now again, don't worry about it. That's the issue we have to fix. Just do like we did before. Put your thumb way back. Okay. Below, one
below, right there. But now you're fretting
too close to the strings. You have to go a bit
more to the left. That's it, right? Yeah. Perfect. That's it. No, stay perfectly
still like that. Because from the E minor, we're going to learn the a minor or how we like to call it the status quo and the fall time. You just take exactly
like your hand is saying, staying on a major and you
just go on Fred below. Same thing. Just go on
below with all the strings. Perfect. Play. You feel how sad that
sounds comfortably minor. Major, Sorry. Perfect. Now it's probably a bit on the fingering on that. Okay. Do exactly
what you're doing. Just try to hold the head a bit straighter, straighter up. Perfect. Go again. That's good. You need a bit of work, but you actually don't
need to rush a lot. Does the software? Okay? Now go individually, starting from the a,
the fifth string. Okay, the problem lies here. Far away from Fred. Yes, it's a bit too far
away from the spreads because this is normal to
happen. Try it again now. Okay, Try to get harder. Okay? Okay. Okay. Now, the two problems,
Beatrice headers, she wasn't realizing she was actually not pressing
down hard enough. That's rare to happen
because people also sometimes tend to press
harder than normal. But it also happens. I don't have the catalysis. That's also true. That's actually very painful. It might hurt a bit
in the beginning if my taught to be
at the beginning. But it's a kind of
a sweet bankers, I promise it's gone in a week. After one week, you can have
all the colors as you want. The urine level
actually feel better.
5. Strumming Basics: For the next lesson, we are going to learn some simple strumming patterns
and even your first song. Now, strumming is basically just going up and
down the string. Guitar one-on-one, probably
the image of a guitar player everybody has sitting on the campfire and just
throwing a cigarette. But strumming, even though it's a beginner scale is the most
essential of guitar scales, it's going to be
engraved and you're playing even when you
become a professional. Let's start on it. I want you okay. Batteries position is perfect here because the way
how you started, you just relax your hand like in your elbow here on
the body of the guitar. And he just at first keep
her hand flowing like this. Just let it loose
with your handlers. Okay. You feel like it's
in a relaxed position. You could stay like that
and it wouldn't hurt. Okay, now, I don't want
you to use a pick, a guitar pick just yet. I want only to use your index finger and your
thumb and hold it like this. Yes. We're going to strum
using both of them. Now. The thumb is in this
position just staying? Yes. Perfect. Your index finger is
just showing a bit. Well, your thumb is holding
you to be a guitar pick. We're faking guitar
pick with our fingers. Okay, so let's run
with the nail. Or if you have nails
on your right hand, it's totally fine because it's sometimes they might
also have a good sound. Classical guitar players
are notorious for having long nails at times. In your left hand
on the other sides, you can't have any nails because if you have
nails, they are frets. I just going to buzz and it's not the thumb, It's your nails. Okay, Now let's start
holding the E minor chord. The first goal of
the filler. Perfect. Okay? Can you try first is
to see if it works. Okay, that's perfect. And as you see, I'm
holding the guitar in the classical
position opposite to batteries was doing the
traditional modern way, I think. Okay, Now we're going to
start by block the finger, blog the strings, just using
your hand, just block them. Just hold them. You just, you don't need to
put string, just hold them. Now, we use AI will learn.
Yes, perfect, and we do. Okay. I wanted to do like a bit
more of a complex rhythm just to show you that
when you see u to v, This of people playing
rhythm right away, it's okay not to follow it right away, like
battery is dead. So what we wanna do now is just downstrokes with
the position 34. Okay, that's very good. The only thing that
I would say is that when you do them all shall do it a bit slowly so you can feel the
whole impact of a stream. Three, perfect, again. Perfect. Now, to add to that, we will add the E minor chord. It's perfect. It is with the back
of my nail, right? Yes, it is with a
beggar finance. You could also do
it with your thumb. But since later on we're going to switch
to a guitar pick, I advise always my students
to use their index finger, because even when you get to intermediate or advanced stages, a finger can do much
more than a pig. So it's best to start
with your fingers and adipic in the mix when
you want to add the big. Now, let's do the
same thing now. But what I want you
to do right now is to add upstrokes and downstrokes database
that when you start from the secretary to the
status is downstroke. Upstroke is the opposite.
I want you to go. Okay? In other words, don't
worry about the left hand. Just mute the strings. It's not important for now. Yes, perfect. The
way that you do it so you don't
get hurt like with your fingers just when you
go up, go with a thump. So it's downward the index finger, and
up with the sample. When you go the upstroke is
also in the nail of the time? Yes. If you have an LCS but
also if you don't have names, your right hand is not much
prone to getting hired. You can only get heard if you actually touch accidentally
a part of your hand. It's totally would just be
like a momentary thing, not anything serious.
Can we try it? Will actually feel it gets stuck like hearing the
beginning of the nail? Yes. Something that can happen.
So the way that you fix that is you hold your
hand a bit more? Yes. Perfect. A bit more. Vertically? Yes. Concert aria. Feel better? Yeah, it feels like I can go very
fast with this. It's okay. The important thing
is that beginning is go slow as you feel like it. We're going to work
on timing and already with a metronome by
the end of the lesson. So for the moment,
what I want you to do is add the E minor to the mix and just do the
motion again up and down. That's perfect. Okay, Now, let's learn
a song. Shall we?
6. Strumming Your First Song & Using a Pick: Okay, now let's learn
our first song. This song, we just need
the course as we know, an elisa twist, which
I'm going to show you after we played. Okay, now, let's go back
to the E minor chord. Major. A minor. That's perfect. Very good. Now our song will have
a minor, E major. And now just to twist, just to make it less
than a bit cooler. The E major shape here, just move it one fret to
the right. Index finger. Perfect. Does it feel Spanish? And then you go
back to the minor. Major. Sorry. I'm just going to play
the song slowly for you. And I'm only going to use
downstrokes for the moment. It kind of has a Spanish
vibe on this card. You don't need to know the
name of the score yet. You can just use it because
it sounds super cool. Okay, Let's give it a shot. For downstrokes. On every chord starting
from the a minor. Perfect. Perfect. That's very good. This is your first
song. Now, we're going to try to do this song, but not just going downstairs, but down, up and we can try. You can also use
your thumb down, up, It's okay but we can
also use the position already talked about before
with the index finger. Yes. Okay. So the thing about
not always that when you start adding the upstroke, you tend to rush it. This is a thing that rushing is actually a demon that
every musicians fights. And this is very true
for guitar players, especially when this thrumming, the downstrokes are easier
to get them tiny strokes. Sometimes. What you want to do
is take it very, very slowly at the beginning. Okay, Let's race though. This part again. Let's start
slow, and that was Tesla. Okay, So let's start
the song very slow, going up and down. You can play it as you wish. You can either play
with your thumb and it's also valid for you. You can either put
your thumb up and down or we can also
do the index finger. It depends on how you feel more comfortable at the moment. So how do you wanna do it? I don't know. Let's give it a try with both. Okay. Perfect. Now I want you to
go slow and you do for total up and downs
for each course is going to sound okay, once again, no worries about it. For just with the thumb. Okay, for normal, Let's
keep up with the sum. We're going to add the index
later when we're going to get also to the big.
Let's start again. But before you start, to avoid getting the bus nodes, make sure that you're
actually fretting them hard enough because I think they share with you before because your handles hurting it. We're just pushing
down a bit lightly. Yeah. Okay. Try to do that. And your hand isn't
a very good position because their sum is actually
sitting on the back. Very good. Okay,
No worries. Okay. So why do you
struggle with that? If you can elaborate it like
what does your thing is? It gets into the beginning of my nails hertz there.
Okay, perfect. So what we can do right now is we can introduce you
to the pic right away. Because some players
actually want, I tend to start fingers cell and it can be the same for you. It's not like it's a problem, but fingers out playing
is something that you actually need to practice for a while before
it can get it right. And I always like to teach my students the pig after they can get some finger style done. However, in this case we might try just use
a big way now. Okay, so now to hold the thick, I'm just going to hold
the pick another one. You hold it the same as the
position like we did before. You all get in-between
your index finger and in-between your
sample, just like that. Okay, so now let's
try to do the song. Going up and down motion. Okay, you're actually doing a very good strumming pattern. But even though you're
just improvising, but it's actually a good one. Yeah. Okay. If you can manage to
keep up with that, Let's just do the
song with the chords. It's gotten worse. It at some point, yeah, There's a thick, but
this is very good. This is actually
the reason why she paradigm now is the basic of all good algorithms in a sense, because this is the
basic reason that you hear in African fire
in a certain way, the one you hear
on TV and media. But anyway, let's work a bit more of that
because that's very good. So it's like Can
you please again? Should be like that or vertical.
Oh, very good question. I want you to use
the vertical side. I mean, the point is sign of the big should be the one that touches the
strings for the moment. Okay. So like this? Yes, exactly like that. You don't need to
hold a big tightly. You just need to hold it for as much strength as it needs
to go away, like fly away. You will figure that
out along the way. Just a process that tends
to get a few weeks. Can we try again? But he's not the first cars
right now, but no worries. I want to get in
your rhythm a bit, just show you why you
might mess it up. Now, the thing is, normally, when I teach that
rhythm because you go normally how I teach the truth and is
doing a bit of the office. So I want you to do is I want you to do
the first two straps. I don't think so. Down, down, up, up, down, up. Perfect. That's it. I'll just repeat it again. Okay. That's it. It's the reason that I taught batteries right
now might not be very intuitive because the moment
that your hand is down, the impulses or just go up and
go across all the strings. But that's the trick. Sometimes
in some recent patterns, especially the ones that
have like the cool groove, it's not always up and down, but it's a combination of
some downs and some apps. The key here is to always have your hand move
your right hand. All this has to be moving. But sometimes it catches a string, sometimes
it just does. First position. Now in this rhythm
which is down, down, up, up, down, up. When I go down the first time, I raise my hand up without
touching the string because they got down.
Then I go down again. But in-between there is an app motion which
doesn't touch the strings. Once again, I will play
the rhythm slowly for you by blocking the string. So it's down, down,
up, up, down. Can we try it? Okay, perfect. Why
are they not doing? The thing is to
block the strings. You have to just rest your hand very lightly on them.
Don't put any pressure. Yes. Okay. First Data yeah.
Reverses the celebrant. Perfect. The trick is to actually get the in-between,
between those play. Does a very good again. Okay, Now, I want you to
imitate batteries and dad and your exercises this
bit is just first, throw it onto the
downstrokes, then down, up. Okay? Then the complex root, and
then we've heard before. Okay, That's perfect. Once you have that down
and you have that, you do that for five-minutes. The other five-minutes, I want you to do them
using the courts. And if you can, after
two or three days, just start playing the song. Don't worry if you
can't change the code sometime because you're gonna get there in the next lesson. But just try to have
all the chords as clean as could we try just play the song it one last
time before ending it? From the beginning. Yes. So it's alright to stop
and they'll be on time. We don't have to
worry about time yet. Right? Okay. That's very good. I noticed that you switch the strumming pattern
from time-to-time. I forgot, yeah. But you don't need to worry
that much about that. Because thing is
strumming patterns. Even though sometimes online you might have
teacher to teach you. Down, up, down, up and
everything like I did before. Even I, as a session musician, I changed my strumming
pattern a lot. If you are getting the groove
and if you are on time, it's okay sometimes to switch
the strumming pattern, but it's good to keep the strumming pattern the
same while playing the song. E.g. if you start, if you're starting like
this, like down down, about I've tried to
keep it like that. But if you wanted to like this, it's perfectly fine to do so. The reason why I wanted
to teach you this is because it is more beneficial to your playing as you get to learn all the pauses in between. However, if you want to start with a simple strumming pattern, start with that, then move on to the wonder to
learn right now.
7. More Chords & Troubleshooting Problems: Now I'm going to teach
you some more cards just to fill in the family of the
offering guitar chords that are essential to
run the basic songs. Okay, Let's start on the
E minor chord that who were playing before?
A minor now. Yes, Perfect like that. Can we play that? Okay, That's very good. Now, what I want you
to do is very easy. You just take your ring
finger and you put it on the third fret
of the a string above. Look at it here. Like this. Yes, that's it. That is a C chord. It can be quite tricky
at the beginning because their hands spreading
is, it's a bit bigger. Now, there is a
work-around on that. And the workaround is
just the symmetric. Tried to hold your sample
in the middle of the neck. Very good. Okay, now, another concept that
I want to teach you, the cords usually are named after the lowest
note on the keyboard. Now, when it comes to the
context of guitar playing, e.g. when you're playing
the a minor chord. You can also play into the
whole strings are six of them, but it's best to start on the fifth string and
not play the lottery. Why? Because it's
an, a minor chord and the lowest note
of the chord is a. Can you try play the E minor? Starting from the 50? Exactly. Now when you go to the, see, the shape we
just did before. Perfect. Start again. Perfect. Why does this work? Because the first
frame and opposition, yes, the third fret of
the a string is a C note. Okay? Now we have a. We have the C. Now
I need a D chord. Repeat those two. Yes. Because it eats. Perfect. And we're going
to learn another card, which is the D chord, D major. It's might look a bit tricky. Now, the d, the first finger, your index finger on the
second fret of the G string. Here, G string,
searching, perfect. Your middle finger
on the second fret of the high, E, the lowest. Okay. Perfect. Now, you're a finger on
the third fret of the B. For now. That's it. And play them. Perfect, That's pretty
good. Now, the best thing you can do in this course is to start the D string
because it's a D chord. That's good. It's a trickier
color. The other one. How would you fix that? First of all, we work on
based on the thumb thing, since we aren't going
down the fret board, sometimes it's useful
to raise a family, but you have to be very
smart about it, not always. So can you try just raise the stamp a bit and not go
down but go above on some. Okay, can you try now? Okay. You still need a bit of work. You have to be a bit
closer to the frets. Okay, it's right now. It's better. That's way better.
That's perfectly okay. Now I want to teach it
just one more chord before learning
another easy song. And this might be the
most difficult course of the upfront costs,
which is the g. Now, for the G, we need
a wider had spread. We're using our middle finger on the third fret of the low. Our index finger
on the second fret of the a string below. Perfect. Now, our pinky
or our ring finger. Fret of the high. It depends on what's
more comfortable. Yeah. Perfect. So battery is displaying the
height using the pinky. Why? Because it's a smaller
hands stretch, right? Okay. So if you do like that,
there's a very cool hack. You can do like a cool trick. You can try it like
that. If you can do it. It's a bit harder. I guess. It sounds good because they have like a white look fingers. It's very good now. But if you're doing
it with your pinky, you can also fred the third
fret of the B string. Just above the yes, That's it. He's promptly them. You see it sounds different. Yes. Exactly.
8. Another Easy Song: Now let's learn knocking on
Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan, or they're covered
by gas cirrhosis, which only has four cards. And we know the four of them. It sounds like this. We are using the
course as we know, and we are using the strumming pattern that we learned before. Okay, so the chords are G-Major. Okay? So like even if you
learn the courts and at a certain point you struggled to find the position is
perfectly normal. It doesn't mean you
forgot the course, but just your hand meets
the muscle memory to do it, it needs to get you used to the motion holding
onto the card. So let's start from the G. Okay, Perfect. Okay, so now on the G we have to do the strumming
pattern we did before. Dow, down. Perfect with the pig. Okay, let me go to
the D major chord. Second fret of the G. Second fret of the G string. Second fret. Perfect. The third fret of the B. Okay, so you're playing
a diva to this us. It's a different card. Okay, that's it. That's it. Perfect. That's good. Now, I see that what birth
weights is doing now, she's not using her finger, but she's using your pinky, which is very normal because it's easier to get
this thing with a bank if you're comfortable in doing it and
with the pinky at first, either the G naught, sorry, the G chord, the D chord, do it. It's perfectly fine as
long as they sound good. You can, after getting
a bit of muscle memory, having your bids a bit
strengths on your hands, you can just change it later. Okay, so you're already perfect. Then we go to the a minor. Second fret. Second fret of the D energy. Perfect. And the
two fingers down. Okay, they might. Okay, that's pretty good. So this is the first
branch of the chords, G major major minor. Now I want you to do the
a minor strumming two times. The second run. It's the same thing, G-Major, D-major, but we don't
tend it with an a minor, but we got to the C
chord is the same thing. Okay? Now we'll learn another song. I don't want the
arteries to go now through it all because
it needs a bit of time, like every beginner to actually be able to change the
courts some time. And I really wanted
to get to this point. Okay, now I know my
current position. I know how to strum. Sometimes I get messy or
not, but it doesn't matter. I can do it in a way. I can switch courts sometime. This is probably your decision. Do you get all the buzzing
and other strings? How do you work on that? There is a less than, sorry, an exercise that I always
give to my students, which I call the one-minute
changes exercise. A one-minute change
is very easy. You just pick up your phone and put a one-minute
timer on it. And inside that minute, you have to choose
three chords and you change those three chords
in a one-minute time. And you have to do that for at least your first
month of playing. And after each day, always not down how many
cores you can change. The trick is not doing the fast, but it just being
rights like having other chord sound full
and nice. E.g. I. Would start with you
doing three easy chords, a minor, C major, and D major. I would do the one-minute change exercise only with those codes. Then after doing
this free course, I would pick three
other ones, e.g. E minor, G major,
and then D major. Always going with a
course that we know.
9. Picking Single Strings: Now let's do some
exercises with a big, we're going to learn what's
called alternate picking. Alternate picking as
the name suggests, he just moving your
pick up and down, but not doing it through
the whole streams, which is strumming, but
doing it only on one string. So it's a kind of
Strom but limited to one string and the
motion is the same. Okay, so now I want you to rest your hand on the bridge of
the guitar. Okay, perfect. You don't need to put
any pressure to it. You just need to rest your hand on the bridge
of the guitar just slightly without muting
the strings entirely. Can you try? That's good. Just got a bit more to the left. Okay, that's very good. Now, I want you to put your pick on top of
the string and just go down. Okay? When you only go down,
it's called dumping. You can also try. If you're the type of player that needs a hand to actually
guide you're playing, like I must have my blank. You can also try
arresting your pinky. Here on the guitar body
on the pig guards. Feel better like Maria said, it feels more stable. Exactly. Now, I
want you to go up, down and up, actually
not up and downs. That's very good. Very good. Now, regarding
alternate picking, as long as you have
a good basis with your pinky and holding her and arrested, you're
gonna do all right? But there are many levels of
alternate picking and it's the thing that guitar
players are four levers always struggled to get
on to the higher level. But it's the thing
that if you get right from the beginning when you're starting
for your whole career, playing or just playing for fun. Okay? Now, the exercise, if
you're going to do, is the one that we had before
that you remember them. But we're not going
to do with our thumb, we're gonna do it with
alternate picking. The first hint is down, the second is up,
or down, or up. That's right. So the time needs to be in the
middle of the guitar. It's actually wiser to
hold it just a bit on a higher degree when
doing these things because it's easier to
make the stretches. And do I still need to like
have my hand on the fridge? Yes. It always helps. So muting the course. Yeah. Just slightly there. You need to put your hand in a position that just resting on the bridge but not
completely muting them. It's something that you will actually managing
time, how to do it, but it's part of those things
that you only need to get a field book is as much lessons as you see about
muting the strings. So not muting them,
you will just have the hang of it once
you're used to that? That's right. Yes. Okay. Do you find it hard to
do the stretches now? Okay, let's use the trick and let's start at
the fifth fret. I didn't really understand
how much I should mute here. Let's do this kind of
the tricky parts. Okay? Normally you would
just rest your hand. It's farther away here. So you didn't do any
muting, you just, your hand is resting
on the bridge of the guitar without actually
touching the strings, which are vibrating
but on the back. What if I don't
touch there at all? You can also do it
without not touching. And that's actually a
very good question. There are some players who can do with a hand floating
and not touching it all. And there actually is
some players who have it better without actually
using the pinky. And at the moment,
what we can do, which is a good middle ground is not touching the strings. Having your handling
is but always using the thumb right now. Because it's a better
way. Yeah, that's good. Now, there's a thing
about picking. You will see all
sorts of lessons about alternate
picking technique. And there are some very good
guidance is towards it. However, there are some
great players who are very weird picking
techniques, e.g. but methionine with one of the greatest jazz
guitar players, if not the greatest, has a very weird picking technique which you use the whole fingers. Marty Friedman and are legendary metal guitar
player plays like this. So there are just some
different workarounds that people do that actually develops their own technique. But for now, it's good
to have the basis than the exercise that you need to do is just
like we did before. We need to deal with
a whole pig across the entire finger, sorry, the entire strings, a string. The string. Now a good point is, when I get to the highest
string, how do I do that? So if your hand is
positioned like this, when you're paying
the lowest ring, when you played
the higher spring, you should move the hand
to be slightly down. So it's easier to get
the highest ring. Shall we try trans? Okay, it's good. You're having the basic
sounds because you're actually applying
more pressure that you need to look at
the string and urine. Urine not pressing as close to the frets as
you want as it should. A bit of time to get as well. Since we're good. Okay, you can, now
that you went to the G string and below, you can move your hand up
is slightly down, okay? Like that. Okay. Okay. It's very good because you
need to get the hand and the muscle memory of actually
moving from the street, which is the tragus foreign. So I really hear this as
well. The peak as well. Yeah, it's, it's kinda
a different feeling like to make sure
that you are doing. Like you're plucking
the same string that you are actually
expressing exactly. That's a bit of a
hand coordination, which is the next level, which we are going to get
after this series of lessons, which is not getting
things just sounding ride, but it's actually playing things on time, which
is the next level. Okay, so I want you to do this
exercise at least for two, 3 min per day as long as
your hand doesn't hurt.
10. Fingerstyle Basics: Now we're going to do some
finger style exercises. We're going to try
them with a song we learned on the first
lessons, which is this. Okay, the way they
were going to play, it's not my strumming, but
plucking individually. The pattern is this. So basically the constant that you have to have in mind is that the first risk springs, the thicker ones are always
played with a stamp. While the thinner
strings, the G, the B, and E, each
correspond to one finger. The G corresponds to the index, the B corresponds to
the middle finger, while the ring finger
corresponds to the highest ring. The pattern we're going to do is just one node from
the base rings, e.g. the a naught we're
playing a minor then three. Wanna give it a shot? Yeah. This one. Yes. Okay, We just got
to pay a bit more attention to the chord. Careful with your thumb and as you're hitting your perfect. And then she's right there, right? Yes, that's the thing. Should you actually take the fingers away from
the strings are like, how do you not to mute them? Exactly. That's a
very good question. The oldest string that is
actually having a finger on is a district when you're asked
thumb, the other fingers, once you plug them
a kind of come back to this crawl the shape or the fingers from the a minor. That's very good. You just have to
work a bit on the fingering on the left hand
so you avoid the buzzing, but it's very normal
to have that. Let's try and have
a run of the song. Okay? So I noticed that while doing these things at the
same time like birds, the right hand and left hand, you start to lose
a bit of ground or the left, it started
to bounce a bit. Yeah. The trick is like
the hand that you see is the hand that
will be more carefully. So if you have problems
with your left hand, try to see your left-hand
doing something else. While we play the a minor chord, restart from the fifth string. When we play the E major chord, we start from the sixth string. When we go to the other chord, we start to steal from
the fifth, the sixth. That's very good. That's perfect. Now, I see the problems that
you have a coordinating your hands and it's the
same exact problems that you will definitely
have on your first day, your first weeks of playing. There is no real
workaround or heck, when it comes to
getting caught rights, when it comes to
getting things clean, you have to have
the theory in mind, which is the concepts of
not pressing too hard, pressing close to the
fret and the thumb. And also build muscle memory by doing these exercises
for a few minutes a day. Okay, Now you explain this.
11. Dealing With Wrist/Finger Pain: Now when our first three chords, which were the E minor
major and a minor. Okay, but at this point, you might ask, what do I do if I feel like surfing
or so my ankle hurts a bit. Did you have any
problems on that? Fingers? Like the skin, I'm
missing something. Okay. Now, this is the most normal
thing that can happen. But I promise it
only lasts seven to ten days maximum after
getting past the first phase. And you build some Colossus, which happens like even in a few minutes in the beginning. You can do all the shredding
and other bending and everything and your hand
won't hurt anymore. Another risk is that your
elbow and your wrist. Your wrist might hurt a bit. Now, when you hold your
wrist down like this, your thumb is on the
middle of the neck. It doesn't feel natural
for the hand to do it. And it may result in hurting
a bit. There's heck for it. You remember the
classic acquisition we talked the first time. If you're holding it like this, it actually places your hand in a much more advantaged
position and you won't have the wrist
pain that you've had before. Say if the pain gets too
much, There's certain part, Always stop there for
doing five or 10 min and exercises and try to switch
to the other position. This is actually a hack that even professional
players use in stage IV. If you notice electric
guitar players, sometimes that to
sit down when you're doing this Friday solos
are just erase the guitar. Anna cap is just the way of compensating from doing
tricky stuff on the guitar. It's perfectly fine to try that.
12. Beginner Q & A: Now I want to go through some of the common problems
that beginner have. One brilliant, it's
very easy to open online lessons and learn yourself to play chords
on play melodies. But it's kind of hard
when you get stuck. A common problem
is getting buses. And the solution for that, as we mentioned in
the first lesson, is just placing your thumb in the middle as possible of the back of the neck and
having your hands through. Another problem is how strongly you need
to press the frets. I advise testing it out and only press strong enough so you can actually
have the note. And remember, always
go closer to the fret. If you have problems with accord is one of
the three issues. Another problem is
your hand hurting if you play for more than 5 min and you feel like your
wrist is hurting, your fingers are getting sore. Stop for at least
two or 3 min and limit you're playing to
30 min, 1 h per day. Another common issue,
you've got strumming. How do you have strumming clean. Hello, how are you
not get stuck? We're going down and up. The solution to that is
first of all going slow. Actually seeing the pattern
that you're doing, e.g. for our main pattern
and we'll go down, down, up, up, down, up. And the other trick is to have
your hand always flowing. The hand always needs
to go up and down, but sometimes it picks, sometimes it just goes up and
down in another position. These I think are the
main questions and the main pain points and must be Gators have on learning
their first songs. What would you say? Do
you have any question? I think for me e.g. a. Question I would
have is should I be looking at the strings, e.g. I. Find it hard to realize, Oh, is this the third string
or the fourth string? It's a very good question. Now, the solution to
that is in two parts. As I told you before, the hand that you look will be the handles will
be more careful. E.g. the way it I would
practice that is when I'm doing the 1 min
chord change exercise, I would look in my hand and think about the
position of the hand. On the other bit while doing the strumming exercise or the
alternate picking exercise, I would look at my right
hand, are doing it. Well, I'm doing both. I would look at the hand which
has the biggest problem. You could also name
the number e.g. here you're playing second fret, and you can also name them until your hand actually
memorize emotions. You also have guidance, which are the points
on the fret board, which serve to guide you. But some guitars like this one also have
them in the front. So a good way to do it, especially lean a
bit on the back and actually get
orientated by the points. Anymore questions
regarding playing? So when you play concerts, or do you still look at
the string sometimes? Or is it like e.g. me? When I studied piano, I can look at the
keys, but I didn't necessarily need to look at the keys. How
is that for you? Actually, when it comes
to guitar playing, you do need to look
at some times because the fingerings on guitar on different than
fingerings on piano, because things here
tend to repeat, but the repeat in
different shapes. Even professional players, sometimes when they
have to switch from. You need to look
at the fretboard. However, when you're
playing lead melodies, sometimes we just do your ears. Good idea, even when
it comes to cars. Look when you have big changes, but when it comes to e.g. playing in the same spot, I might go like, why? Because I let my ear guide me. I lead the sense of rhythm
and the groove guide me. And I know I'm in the same spot. Memorize present. But if I go
like if I have to go here, I tend to look at it because
I don't want to mess. It. Does help. Yeah. Anymore questions? I'll just use started
away. I'm going to cut it. What about like e.g.
these classical position? Like I feel like I
already my back hurt him. Would you advise that I actually start with the
classical position. Okay. So regarding your back
hurting this multi-part, your posture when
you're playing guitar. It's the exact same logic, your poster, and you're
staying in front of the PC. Now, when you're sitting, you have to actually get
your shoulders trade and your chest going a
bit up to the front. This may look a bit silly
or uncomfortable at first, but if you get used to this kind of position
when playing, even if you're
holding classical, even if you're not
holding classical unit to get yourself
used in your back, sitting straight and putting
your chest in front. If you get it right
in the beginning, you will avoid many vacations. I myself, I'm a
self-taught player and I still haven't back issues. And I walk a bit
like this curve only because when I played guitar the first five or
even six years, I only used to sit
in my chair and be like this because I wanted
to see the frets up close. So the best thing to do is to actually consciously think about your back and not play for
more than 30 min or an hour. It's always best to play a bit, but constantly think about
what you're playing. Them to play a loud
that don't think about it to just wing it. Always focused on the
time that you're playing. And even if it's 30 min per day, 1 h or even 15 min, bring the maximum
out of it and just focus on your playing and do
nothing else for the time. I hope that helped.
13. Exercises For 1 Month: Now I'm gonna give
you a quick overview of the exercises you have
to do the following month. Exercise number one, playing off of springs
with your thumb. And you do this for six strings. Exercise number two
involves the same motion, but adding the fretting hand motion for the entire strings. If you can't do it on
the first four frets, start on Fred number five. Exercise number three
is doing the same, but using a guitar pick with
alternate picking always. Do each of these exercises
at least for 5 min a day. Exercise. Number four is about
changing chords. It's called one-minute
change exercise. You pick three cards, e.g. E minor, C, D major. And you change them
as many times as you can inside my main it like this. Exercise number for
involved strumming. You pick any cold, e.g. a. Minor. You first run
only down for 1 min. Then you start down, up. Then you start with a strumming
pattern we did before. These are the exercises
that you'd have to do along with the two songs
that I gave in the lesson. And for your project,
I wanted to play the songs as well as you can for your first week are your
first two weeks of planning a post them down in
the comments section, I'll be reviewing
your playing and answering any questions
that you will have just to help
you improve faster.
14. Conclusion - Now What?: We've reached the
end of our course. And I, first of all, I wanted to thank batteries for being here. Thank you so much
for being here. It's my pleasure. It isn't my first time. Really like a complete
beginner again. Batteries is a superb musician. She is a professional
singer and a vocal coach. And she also has her courses in this platform which
you can check out. And I'm honored to say that I'm featured in one
of those courses, which is a beginner course for a training for self-taught musicians
and beginners, right? So it's actually an
exchange their release. And well, I'm an absolute
beginner in the guitar, even though I play
other instruments. I'm a professional singer, but I think it was super interesting that we did this exchange
also with ear training, because our course on ear training is helpful
not just for singers, but also for guitar players
and musicians in general, because that's a
skill that you just want to have as a musician. Also maybe for singing some backing vocals or to
sing with your guitar. You definitely want to make sure that you are singing to you and that you have your ear training solved before you go further. Yes. It's a big part of being a
musician or guitar player, either professionally
or for fun, is training her ears
because your mind is first your ear and then whichever instrument
that you pick. I just want to remind
you to follow me and follow me a trace so you can
keep up with our courses. And wanted to let you know
that I'm going to post in the coming weeks
the other lesson regarding to the other
mouth of guitar playing. So follow and leave a comment so you can keep up with that. I will make sure to answer all your questions
and to give you a review on your
playing if you're going to post the
project in the comments. So thank you and have
a great learning.
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