Remember that learning absolutely anything in this world is a marathon, not a race! This is especially true in the case of learning how to play the guitar. Here is a short video tutorial that will help you. If you want to speed things up, you need to practice it every single day for at least 5 minutes each day. It will take over 3 months for you to learn how to do a perfect barre. It’s something that seems easy, but it really is not. Practice the Barre every dayīarre means putting your index finger over all the chords of the guitar, and getting a clean sound strumming all of those strings. If you take breaks, your fingers will be more and more sensible. If you have a bad day and don’t feel like singing, at least do it for 10 minutes each day, so that your fingers can keep in shape. You will clearly see the progress in a few months. That is why you need to sing every single day - no exception. In the beginning, you will be very very bad at it. If you make playing the guitar a chore, you won’t keep singing for too long. In the first 3 months, if you feel like your fingers can’t take singing that day - take a break until they heal. After around 1 year of singing, your fingers should be ready for you to sing all day if you wish to do so! Also, remember to listen to your body. After 2 months of singing 1 hour each day, you can add 30 more minutes each month.
This is because in time, your fingers will start developing calluses and your fingers won’t feel so swollen after singing. Do this in the beginning for 1–2 months, and then start adding more time each day. This is the first lesson you need to learn before starting playing the guitar. Here is a good site where you can see multiple tabs and you can start looking for your favorite songs. They are more intuitive and extremely easy to learn. If you don’t plan on being a big opera guitar singer, then I highly recommend using tabs not musical notes for your singing. This was my singing road, so now, let’s get to teaching you the best way to learn to play the guitar.įreestocks on Unsplash Read Tabs not musical notes There’s nothing better than going out in the garden and singing a bit. I still however like to play the guitar in my spare time, as it is very relaxing and it makes me feel better. Sadly, we never found a good vocalist for our band, so we eventually gave up and went on different paths. We found another guitarist and started playing Rock and Metal music. The time I had with the band and my good friends was one of the best times of my life.Īfter the Highschool, our violinist left, but we kept going at it for 2 more years. We even had some concerts, in school and outside of the school. We sang together for 4 years, all through the high school period. That is when we decided to start a band together! And that is when I also started playing the Bass guitar - which was a lot of fun. One of them was playing the Violin since he was 7. When I started Highschool, I also found out that other boys in my class liked music and would want to learn to play an instrument. I started with simple songs and then started building up the skill to sing my favorite songs. That is when I started loving to play the guitar again. In the online space, people are using something called a Tablature or Tab. I then started teaching myself through online videos and lessons. I quit after the first month as I hated even the thought of going there. The songs were annoying, and reading and learning musical notes were horrible. It was horrible and I hated every minute of it! I started learning how to read musical notes and sing from a paper. In the first month, I also started going to a teacher so I could learn how to sing. This is one of the lessons I will teach you a bit later. I had a few days in which I sang and then had to take a break for a few days because I couldn’t touch the strings any longer due to the pain.
I still remember how my fingers looked at the end of each day, the tips of my fingers were red and swollen and it was painful to do anything with them. I used to sing for hours and hours, unaware of what that would do to my fingers, which is shredding them to pieces.
It took some time before I was able to sing the latter two, but it was a fun road. And, of course, I wanted to learn Nothing Else Matters and Smoke on the Water. I really wanted to learn how to play Latino music on my classical guitar. I started playing the guitar when I was 16 years old. It's a drop tuning.Jefferson Santos on Unsplash My singing Road so far The tuning to BB is a bit different than others.