Learn And Teach Yourself Guitar
Learn how to play and teach yourself guitar, from absolute beginner level, right through to being a professional guitarist.
If you want to teach yourself guitar but don’t where to start, you’ve come to the right page. This page will give you the information you need to teach yourself guitar and to get you started on your journey towards playing fluent and flowing guitar.
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Let’s begin the online guitar lessons…
Hand Positioning
Keep your wrists and hands relaxed. Otherwise the strain may cause injury.
Now you can progress to the next segment. Our goal in this session is to get familiar with being able to play the A and D major chords as well as becoming familiar with reading guitar tablature or a tab from an instruction sheet.
Alright, let’s begin. Firstly take a look at the neck of the guitar in the diagram below and familiarize yourself with it.
Neck Of The Guitar
Notice in the picture above that each string is given a number. When you hold the guitar in your playing position, the number 1 string will be at the bottom and the 6th string will be at the top.
In the bottom of the picture you can also see word “tuning”. The word “Tuning” refers to the notes the guitar strings are tuned to. This is an example of a regular tuning called the standard E tuning. A standard E tuning consists of notes E, A, D, G and B, which you can see on a music sheet.
You may have noticed the note E on strings 1 and 6. The E on the first string is referred to as the high E. The E note on the sixth string is referred to as the low E.
Getting to know the Chords
Next, as you are learning to teach yourself guitar, let’s get familiar with the chords of the guitar. A guitar player will use various different chords so he/she can make riffs or progressions which then can be used for creating guitar songs.
A chord is simply three or more notes played simultaneously. To get an understanding of a chord, refer to the diagram below (from the Jamorama guitar course) which shows a chord. In this diagram you will notice that there are two chord diagrams.
In the diagram you’ll see a real life guitar being used which is an example of the diagrams used in the Jamorama guitar course, which shows you how to teach yourself guitar.
These types of picture diagrams can also be found in many more guitar courses.
The 2nd diagram is a standard chord diagram that you may see in some books, but they are not as helpful when learning guitar. Knowing what a standard chord diagram looks like is useful because you may wish to use this type of diagram when drawing chords on paper.
As discussed earlier, a chord is a combination of 3 or more notes played simultaneously.
The fingers are then numbered accordingly and these numbers are then added to the chord diagram sheet.
Now its time for you to see a full cord diagram. In the full chord diagram below, there is an example of the A Major Chord.
A Major Chord in a Chord Diagram
Below you can see a diagram of the A major chord. On this diagram you can see numbers 1, 2 and 3. These numbers refer to your fingers.
On the top right of the diagram above there is a red spot. This red spot is on the sixth string. What this spot tells us is not to play that string. You can, however, play the remaining strings.
Here’s a human touch to the A Major Chord diagram.
The D Major chord
The D Major chord is made up of notes D, F# (F Sharp) and A. As you can see the fingers are numbered accordingly.
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