By Paul Clews / First Steps For Guitar
Getting To Know Your Guitar
Get to Know Your Guitar (acoustic)
Get to Know Your Guitar (Electric)
Care For Your Guitar 1, Keep guitars in a case 2, Keep guitars in a dry safe place 3, Keep guitars out of direct sunlight 4, Clean it with a soft lint free Cloth 5, Change your strings regularly 6, Put the correct strings on your guitar
Finger Nails Keep the nails on your fretting hand short. This will enable you to use the tips of your fingers when holding down chords and single notes. The nails on your strumming or plucking hand can be short if you intend to use a plectrum. However some players use their nails for finger picking. If you aspire to this style you can grow you nails on this hand.
How To Hold The Guitar
How To Hold The Plectrum
A Major O O O
D Major X O O
Things To Remember 1 How to hold the guitar 2 How to hold the plectrum 3 A major chord 4 D major chord 5 Use the tips of your finger 6 Learn to change chords smoothly