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		<title>Hi! I&#8217;m Betty Johansson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi! I&#8217;m Betty Johansson and welcome to my site! I thought that I should make this post so that I can have a more personal relationship with my readers! I would like you guys to get to know me and I would like to get to know you! So please leave a comment and voice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-61" title="Betty Johansson" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/betty-guitar.jpg" alt="Betty Johansson" width="200" height="200" />Hi! I&#8217;m Betty Johansson and welcome to my site! I thought that I should make this post so that I can have a more personal relationship with my readers! I would like you guys to get to know me and I would like to get to know you! So please leave a comment and voice your opinion!</p>
<p>I am a junior at the Manhattan School of Music. I have been playing the guitar for about 1 year now and I made this website to help other people in the beginning and intermediate stages of guitar playing.</p>
<p>I play the acoustic and the electric guitar but my favorite is the acoustic guitar. Although play more acoustic guitar because I am a big fan of Jack Johnson, I am one of the biggest fans of Mark Knopfler!</p>
<p>I have written several articles on how to play the guitar, about <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> and <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/easy-guitar-songs/"title="" >easy guitar songs</a>.</p>
<p>I am working on a few video tutorials that I will upload to YouTube and post on this site. This will be free instructional material and <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/guitar-lessons-for-beginners/"title="" >guitar lessons for beginners</a> that anyone can follow through here!</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy my site and find it useful to learn how to play the guitar! If you enjoy my site and my articles please leave a comment, I love hearing your opinions!</p>
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		<title>Guitar Lessons for Beginners</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article will give you some tips on how to choose the best method of guitar lessons for beginners. The first thing you should do before you start looking for beginner guitar lessons is to get your own guitar. You do not need to spend a lot of money on your first guitar. There are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article will give you some tips on how to choose the best method of <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/guitar-lessons-for-beginners/"title="" >guitar lessons for beginners</a>. The first thing you should do before you start looking for <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> is to get your own guitar. You do not need to spend a lot of money on your first guitar. There are many cheap guitars that work great, have a good sound and are dependable.</p>
<p>Since you are a beginner you should get a guitar with soft strings until your fingers get used to it. Before you buy a guitar you can read our article on how to buy your first guitar, so that you buy the guitar with the right size and weight for you.</p>
<p>You also don&#8217;t need to buy a new guitar, you can buy good used guitars on eBay or on other places. Buying a used guitar as your first guitar is an intelligent choice, because when you start playing better and get to know more about music and guitars your taste will get more refined and then you will know what you really want to buy.<span id="more-17"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-41" title="Guitar Lessons for Beginners" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/Guitar-Lessons-for-Beginners.jpg" alt="Guitar Lessons for Beginners" width="200" height="200" />The second step is to tune your guitar. If you are tuning your guitar for the first time it may seem a little bit difficult but that is normal. There are various ways to tune your guitar, to know more about it you can read our article on how to tune a guitar. I have an electric guitar tuner and it is great for beginners and advance players alike.</p>
<p>You should also play the guitar with a pick. You should not use your nails to pluck or strum your guitar chords. Even if you use a pick you will get sore fingers, so imagine if you don&#8217;t use one! If your fingers hurt and they are sore you will have to stop your guitar lessons and that doesn&#8217;t help you.</p>
<p>After you got your guitar, tuned it, have a pick, then you can start to learn the guitar chords. All the guitar lessons for beginners courses cover this in detail. Before you start to play guitar tabs you have to learn <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >how to play guitar</a> tabs, you will learn which finger should be used on each string.</p>
<p>If you buy one of the guitar courses that I recommend then you can watch all this information in video format so that you can learn it like you had a tutor at your house. You should look at the positions of the fingers, the finger movement and the way they hold the guitar.</p>
<p>After you have memorized and learned the chords you are ready to can start to do <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/easy-guitar-songs/"title="" >easy guitar songs</a> and play your first tunes. The information on guitar chords is easily found on the Internet in text or video format at no cost.</p>
<p>Learning how to play the guitar is a skill that you don&#8217;t learn overnight. You will need practice and the amount of time and practice you put into it is proportional to your results. In the beginning it is a little bit confusing but you have a lot to learn so don&#8217;t panic that you can&#8217;t do it in a day or a week. You just need to be motivated and determined to take the time to learn how to play the guitar and learn and enjoy the guitar lessons for beginners.</p>
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		<title>Beginner Guitar Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crucial step in learning how to play the guitar is choosing the right method to learn. If you are looking for beginner guitar lessons or for an Internet course on how to play the guitar, you have to choose the right teacher or the right course. Learning the basics right from the beginning is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A crucial step in learning how to play the guitar is choosing the right method to learn. If you are looking for <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> or for an Internet course on how to play the guitar, you have to choose the right teacher or the right course. Learning the basics right from the beginning is important and will make your progress as a guitar player quicker and easier. There is no big difference if you want to how <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-acoustic-guitar/"title="" >how to play acoustic guitar</a> or if you want to know how to play electric guitar.</p>
<p>A guitar is a great instrument, there are very few good songs that can be played without a guitar, electric or acoustic, the guitar is a great instrument. A great thing about the guitar is that you can play it without having other instruments, it sounds good on its own and you don&#8217;t need to be in a band to play it.</p>
<p>Since you decided that you want to learn how to play the guitar then you will need to choose how you will learn. Learning <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >how to play guitar</a> may seem a little bit intimidating but you shouldn&#8217;t be scared! The beginner guitar lessons have that in mind and you will be able to learn everything without problems. Just follow the steps of your guitar course of do what your guitar instructor tells you.<span id="more-15"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-43" title="Beginner Guitar Lessons" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/Beginner-Guitar-Lessons.jpg" alt="Beginner Guitar Lessons" width="200" height="200" />If you have enough money you can opt for guitar lessons in your area. The guitar lessons can take place in the home of the instructor, your home, a studio or even in a music store. Picking the right teacher is very important and it is not an easy task. You have to remember that a good guitar player is not always a good teacher. A guitar teacher should be able to play the guitar well but more importantly he has to be able to teach his students well.</p>
<p>Beginner guitar lessons have the advantage that you have a one on one teacher and you can ask all the questions you want, but they get expensive very fast. Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t have the money or the time to get guitar lessons, there are other methods that are even better!</p>
<p>I learned to play the guitar pretty well in under a year with a few online guitar courses. These courses don&#8217;t cost much and they have video tutorials and ebooks to back everything up. You can <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/learn-how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >learn how to play guitar</a> at home with these courses and they are just as good or even better than one on one guitar lessons!</p>
<p>You can also look around for free information on how to play the guitar but you will waste a lot of time and you don&#8217;t know if the information is good and it will take a lot of time because it is always scattered around. The best thing is to buy one of the good online guitar courses and get started. The best courses have teached tens of thousands of people to play the guitar and the methods are fine tuned and efficient so that you can learn how to play the guitar with ease and speed!</p>
<p>If you want to know more about these online beginner guitar lessons that are made by the best professional guitar teachers you can read my reviews on these methods. With these methods you can learn how to play the guitar for a low fee and you can do it when you have time and are at home.</p>
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