Here’s a guitar lesson for beginners on guitar strumming.
One of the most common things that I’ve heard from you fine folk is you’re having difficulties getting strumming down properly. In this lesson on guitar strumming, we’ll cover a very simple rhythm that you can use to practice your strumming, however I also talk about things like how to hold your pick, and a very important one… which strings to play.
As always, leave a comment below the video and tell me what you think about it.
When I was first learning guitar, a friend of mine wrote a song that had this cool passing note (an F#) in between the G chord and the Em chord. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and practically forced him to teach it to me.
I’ve since discovered this is about as common as sliced bread, but I still use it frequently anyways, because it sounds cool.
The cool thing is, is that for a beginner it is very easy to learn how to throw these notes into your playing, and you get the satisfaction of hearing your playing sound like something more than the usual strum-strum. =)
(It’s been 15 years, but I still remember some of the early victories learning guitar!! =)
Anyways, here is the lesson. Don’t forget to tell me if you loved it or hated it! You can leave a comment just below the video. Enjoy…
A lot of you beginners have mentioned to me that you’re at the stage where you’re working on chords, so I thought that today I would bring you a handy little video which very simply focuses on open chords, how you play them and what they sound like.
I’ve included a chord chart beside each one I teach right inside the video.
The major chords that are covered in here are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G
The minor chords that are covered in here are: Am, Bm, Cm, Dm, Em
I fully realize there are a LOT more chords out there, but with the handful I’ve just listed you can play probably 90% of the songs that are out there. Cm doesn’t even need to be in that list, I kind of threw it in because it is just like Bm, but moved up 1 fret.
If this lesson is about the right speed for you, you might consider checking out Jamorama. Their entire course is chock full of these types of examples, though done much more professionally than I’ve done here! =)
Ever wondered how to tune a guitar by ear? Well, here’s a cool trick that I use to tune my guitar by ear.
Wherever possible, you should try to get a reference note. If you can hit a note on a piano, or from another guitar, or whatever, that’s great. Just try to make sure the note you work off of is in tune. You can even get a tuning fork and use this method with that.
If there’s nothing around, that’s cool, don’t worry about it. At least your guitar can be in tune with itself. Knowing how to tune a guitar by ear can really benefit you if you’re playing at a campfire gig out in the boonies!
I use this method when I don’t have a guitar tuner handy, or when I’ve just recently tuned and there’s one string that’s going on the fritz. I can then adjust that string back into tune with the others really quick using the harmonics you’ll see in the video.
Ever wondered how to tune a guitar by ear? Well, here’s a cool trick that I use to tune my guitar by ear.
