The
First Step to a Beginning Guitar
Lesson is to
GET GOING!!
Nothing in
this world worth doing comes easy
and the same is true about guitar
lessons for beginners. Learning
to play takes some time and
effort but a good tutorial will
put you miles ahead.
I recently
got my first guitar, a Fender
Squire – a beginner guitar,
apparently infamous for it's lack
of quality. Naively exuberant, I
showed it to my jazz cat friend,
Damon.
“Oh no
man,” he groaned, staring,
“tell me you didn't just get
taken?” He then picked up
the Fender and proceeded to ruin
my day, showing me how the
octaves didn't line up, how the
action was lousy and the bridge
rattled, and a few other things
wrong with it that I couldn't
understand.
“Thanks
Damon,” I said, gritting my
teeth, “thanks a
lot.”
“Sure,
no problem, he replied apparently
not picking up on the irony. From
that auspicious beginning, I set
out immediately to get a beginner
guitar lesson.
Naturally,
I began my search on the
internet, where such services can
be had for free, and immediately
googled several thousand
beginner
guitar lesson
sites.
Absolutely worthless.
I've never
played a musical instrument
before, and after watching a
small image of some goateed dude
strumming on his axe beside a
diagram showing little numbers in
circles which was supposed to
somehow explain what he was
doing, I can't say I was any
closer to knowing how.
An Actual
Beginner Guitar Lesson
Story
My first
real beginner guitar lesson was
actually from Damon. He smiled at
me and glowered at the Fender, as
if it was a hated ex of his I was
now, unknowingly, dating.
Now this
was a real guitar lesson for
beginners – he even held my
hand for me, and placed it on the
strings. I found out what all of
those numbers were in that
supposed beginner guitar lesson
video I had just watched: they
were symbols to show me what
frets to put my fingers on and
even which fingers to used.
“So,
when do I learn to play this
stringed instrument,” I
asked Damon as my beginner guitar
lesson came to a close.
Apparently my attitude irked him.
“Well,
if I give you some homework, you
going to stick with them and
practice?” he asked, raising
an eyebrow. “Man,” I
said, “I just want to play
some songs.” He directed me
to a tablature site on the
internet, where I could download
files on how to play all of the
simplistic music which I adored
to my hearts content.
My first
beginner guitar lesson was also
my very last one. That didn't
matter to me – I learned
enough to play a little rock and
roll, which is really all that I
wanted. And, if I can do it, so
can you!
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