Learning To Play Acoustic Guitar -- Tips To Help You Get Started
You may have just started playing the acoustic guitar or are thinking about it
. It's a great instrument to play and fun to learn. If you want to play, you might not be sure where to start. Hopefully this can help you get started.
The first step involves getting a chord chart. These days you can easily find hundreds of great ones online. Print those out and keep them near your guitar. Start out by learning as many chords as you can each time you practice. Practice the old chords you already know and start practicing the new ones. As an acoustic guitar player, you really need to have fairly good knowledge of a wide variety of chords. As you learn more chords, you will start hearing them in songs making it easier to play them or figure them out.
Strumming patterns are something an acoustic guitar player needs to work on. Many times the acoustic is also a rhythm instrument. It's important to develop good rhythm. When strumming there is an up stroke and a down stroke. You have to listen to the patterns because it's not always up followed by down. Seeing a video is probably an easier way of learning the strumming pattern of a song at first than just hearing it. Eventually you will be able to get the strumming pattern fairly naturally.
How can you get better at the acoustic guitar?
One technique involves changing from chord to chord rapidly, even if they don't sound good together. At first it will take more than a few moments to get your fingers set, but eventually you will be able to switch from chord to chord more quickly.
Playing songs is not only fun but will help you improve. Pick songs that you enjoy and start playing them. Play it on your own or with the CD or mp3 so you get the overall feel of playing with a group.
Learning To Play Acoustic Guitar -- Tips To Help You Get Started