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		<description><![CDATA[Many people want to learn how to play guitar because they want to play and sing some songs with friends or record some music. If you want to sing your own songs or you want to sing your favourite songs from other artists you have to learn how to play the guitar and it will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people want to learn <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >how to play guitar</a> because they want to play and sing some songs with friends or record some music. If you want to sing your own songs or you want to sing your favourite songs from other artists you have to learn how to play the guitar and it will take some effort.</p>
<p>Most of the time it looks very easy to play the guitar&#8230; because you are watching someone with experience and they make it look so easy. Like with any other craft, learning to play the guitar will take time and effort and in the beginning it is challenging. It is also not easy to play the guitar and sing at the same time.</p>
<p>So if you want some <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> it is important that you choose a good resource to learn how to play the guitar. To be able to play the guitar and sing at the same time you need a lot of self control and practice, it won&#8217;t be easy at the beginning. An important aspect to be able to do this it by picking the right song. You should always start out to <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/learn-how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >learn how to play guitar</a> with <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/easy-guitar-songs/"title="" >easy guitar songs</a> and after you choose a song you have to listen to it a few times before playing it on your own.</p>
<p>You can listen to it for 2 or 3 times, listen to it as many times as you need until you memorize it. After that you can start to play it yourself. After you practised playing the song and you can do it with ease you can start to sing at the same time. Don&#8217;t get frustrated if you don&#8217;t get it at the first time, it is normal for beginners and pros alike, it takes some practice.<span id="more-19"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-39" title="Learn How to Play Guitar" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/Learn-How-to-Play-Guitar.jpg" alt="Learn How to Play Guitar" width="200" height="200" />Although you see many people promising to teach you how to play guitar in 1 hour or 1 week that is just not possible. You have to be able to look through all the hype that people try to sell to beginners that want to learn how to play the guitar.</p>
<p>When you are learning don&#8217;t think that all the pros can memorize things like a computer, you should not think that everything will be perfect the first time around because it wont. If you think like a perfectionist and get irritated because you didn&#8217;t do it right you will not last long and you will not enjoy it.</p>
<p>All the pros that play guitar really well and the famous guitarists like Santana and Mark Knopfler also made mistakes when they were beginners. Mistakes are important because you learn from them and get better. Getting stressed out because your progress is not going as fast as you expected only brings negative thoughts and pressure in your mind. Just try it, continue and don&#8217;t give up.</p>
<p>If you are tired of doing everything on your own or you can&#8217;t find the right free information on the Internet then you can buy magazines or books. Even better than this is buying a nice online course with video tutorials and guides to help you improve your technique and teach you how to play your favourite songs. This will keep your motivation up and make the whole learning process fun!</p>
<p>On the Internet you can find a lot of beginner guitar lessons both for free and for a fee. Use the computer and the Internet to research what course would be the best for you and which one will allow you to progress as fast and as efficiently as a guitarist. These courses will help you learn much faster and that way you can put the time that you invest in practice pay off even more!</p>
<p>You should also never force yourself to practice. If you want to learn how to play the guitar and your hands hurt or they are tired then go do something else or take a rest. You can keep going the day after. The process of learning how to play the guitar does not have an end. When you did all the beginner guitar lessons then there is still a lot to learn and to practice to perfect you skills as a musician even more.</p>
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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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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first thing you have to do before learning <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/easy-guitar-songs/"title="" >easy guitar songs</a> is tune your guitar and be able to read guitar tabs. You can tune your guitar with various methods and you can read more about that in our article on how to tune a guitar. After the guitar is tuned you should learn to read guitar tabs.</p>
<p>If you want to be able to play easy guitar songs and get better so you can improve your guitar playing skills you have to be able not only to read the guitar tabs, you also have to get to know the song and get used to the sound of it. Before you start playing a song on your guitar you should listen to the song a time or two. The easiest guitar songs are the ones that use only 3 chords.</p>
<p>When you hear the song for the first time listen to the rhythm and timings that are played with the guitar. After you have heard the songs one or two times you can start recognize the chords and strums. The next time you hear the song you have to follow it reading the guitar tab. Do this a few times to get used to the timing and the rhythm of the song.<span id="more-9"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-47" title="Easy Guitar Songs" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/Easy-Guitar-Songs.jpg" alt="Easy Guitar Songs" width="200" height="200" />The next step is to pick up your guitar and follow the song. Don&#8217;t play your guitar to loud because you want to concentrate on the song that is playing and get a better feel for the rhythm. Do this a few times until you get the right strumming and timing.</p>
<p>Now you can start playing the easy guitar songs by yourself. If you mess it up don&#8217;t worry, listen to the song a few more times and try again. It is not going to work on the fist time, mistakes are natural. Keep practicing the same song until you know how to play it, don&#8217;t switch from one song to another before you can play it. If you are changing songs before mastering them you will not be able to play one right and you will hinder your learning process.</p>
<p>After you learn to play the easy guitar song you can start singing and playing at the same time.</p>
<p>You can use a digital camera and make a film of you playing and singing. You can watch yourself playing and pinpoint any mistakes you are making. Learning <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >how to play guitar</a> is not hard but you will have to practice a lot and have patience, you won&#8217;t be a Mark Knopfler in a month. If you are making mistakes and get frustrated don&#8217;t continue for too long, get distracted and come back. If you are getting irritated and nervous you will make even more mistakes and make the <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> an unpleasant thing.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you start practicing your guitar skills it is good that you know the basics about how to play guitar, the guitar history and the part names of the guitar. The guitar has several parts: body, sound hole, bridge, headstock, guitar neck, tuners and the nut. All the parts of the guitar have an important [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before you start practicing your guitar skills it is good that you know the basics about <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/how-to-play-guitar/"title="" >how to play guitar</a>, the guitar history and the part names of the guitar. The guitar has several parts: body, sound hole, bridge, headstock, guitar neck, tuners and the nut. All the parts of the guitar have an important role in sound that comes out of your guitar.</p>
<p>When one of these doesn&#8217;t work properly then the sound of your guitar will be different or will disappear. Even a great guitar player could never play well because the guitar is not in good conditions.</p>
<p>When you start to learn how to play the guitar then you also have to know how to hold the pick. When people are doing their <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/beginner-guitar-lessons/"title="" >beginner guitar lessons</a> sometimes they don&#8217;t use a guitar pick. It is best to always use a guitar pick so you don&#8217;t hurt your fingers and it will also sound better. When you hold the pick you have to have an open hand and you palm should be facing you. Keep a relaxed fist and hold the pick between your index finger and your thumb.<span id="more-6"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-34" title="How to Play Guitar" src="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/wp-content/uploads/How-to-Play-Guitar.jpg" alt="How to Play Guitar" width="200" height="200" />Buying a product with <a href="http://howtoplaytheguitar.net/guitar-lessons-for-beginners/"title="" >guitar lessons for beginners</a> is an important decision because it will be your first contact with the subject. Before you buy one of these products you should read about guitar basics that you can easily find on the Internet for free. On this site there are many tutorials and you can learn a lot without paying anything.</p>
<p>Many people learn to play the guitar without paying for lessons or for other products. I started playing the guitar about 10 months ago and have been able to learn a lot quicker because I bought a few of these courses and found one that was perfect for me. If you want to save time and learn quicker then it is a good idea to invest some money on one of these courses because you can learn in a quicker and concentrated manner.</p>
<p>There are different types of guitar, the acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, etc. The most common one is the acoustic guitar and most people start learning that one first. After that you can go to the electric one with no problems because everything is very similar. The first acoustic guitar appeared at the end of the sixteenth century and the electric guitar&#8217;s came around in the thirties.</p>
<p>If you want to learn to play the electric guitar from scratch that is no problem, both guitars work with the same principles and the lessons work on both. With an electric guitar you can do more and the main difference is that the sound is amplified. It is always a good idea to know how to calibrate and tune your guitars yourself and to know as much as possible about the technical side of your music instrument.</p>
<p>The first thing that new guitar players should learn is how to tune their instrument. We have an article on how to tune a guitar and you can read more about that later.</p>
<p>Once you know how to tune your guitar you can start learning the guitar scales. All the guitar lessons have information and tutorials on scales. The first thing you have to know is what finger you should use on each string. As a rule of thumb, the thumb is not used to touch any strings although that the pros do that. All the other fingers are used to press the different chords and make your music.</p>
<p>When you know that you can start playing something. You should start out with an easy song to memorize and internalize the finger movements and become used to the guitar. Practice makes perfect! Good luck. You can read more articles on how to play guitar and start getting better!</p>
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