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Learning to play the guitar
Ok, so my friend and I made this list of things we want to do before we graduate highdchool, and one of the things on the list was to learn how to play the guitar. Now, I've grown up around music, my dad's sside of the family are strong musicians and most of them know how to play the guitar. So, naturally, I had no trouble getting a guitar and some exercises to help practice, whereas, she has yet to get a guitar. So she said it was fine that I started learning before her. So, last week, I got the guitar and sat down and practiced for a few hours. Basically, the first week, I was just trying to build up calic [sp?] so it wouldn't hurt as much when I moved on to the hard stuff. So, I was talking to my friend on the phone while I was practicing, and she said I sucked! I told her I had just picked the thing up a few days ago, but she said I should be way ahead of where I am right now. So, to my question, I'm I really not learning it as fast as I should? I've been practicing for a few days and I've already got a few notes and a chord down. Is this acceptable for 1-2 weeks of practicing? Thanks!
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Firstly, good on you and your friend for making your list and settig goals for yourself.
You need to practice at the very, very least of one hour a day, no matter how much it hurts to make sure you build up calisus on your fingertips, make sure you are pushing the strings down with the very very tip of your fingers at all times to build up calisus in the right place and to get into the habit. You may need to cut your fingernails a little to make sure you can push down on the very tips of your fingers. Even if it stings the pain will go away after about 15 minutes of practising.
You won't really need notes to play guitar. I've never played anything with notes. You will learn tab later on when you progress a little.
The most important thing to learn for you right now is chords.
Just start off by learning what A, C, D, E, F and G chords are. Then you can learn Am, Dm, Em ect. Maybe try to learn three a day and practice changing between each chord and you will get quicker and quicker until you dont even need to look at what you are doing.
But you say you've played for 1-2 weeks? That's quite a lot of time really, you should know more than one chord by now. Most people would know 4-6 chords and be able to change between them after 2 weeks. After a month or so you should be able to do this without even thinking.
My suggestion is to just follow what I have said above and probably start all over again from scratch. Get someone you know who has played guitar for a while (eg: your dad) to put draw some chords in tab form on a piece of paper and put the name of the chord above each one. You can then practice each of these every day until you can change quickly between them.
Hope I have helped you, please let me know how you go coz I would love to hear back from you.
Best of luck <3
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