Guitar How-To

There are two elements to a guitar song. The chords and the lyrics. Each of these lyrics has to be inside you so that you can sing the words or play the chords without thinking. There is no trick to it – it is just a matter of knowing your stuff. Let’s start with the guitar chords. One thing that will help you know your guitar chords really well is to learn to play in time. Don’t be happy with just more or less knowing the fingerings for the chords, but work hard at getting your chords playing a steady four beats to the bar. Use a metronome, you can download them for free from the net. Don’t be easy on yourself with this, learn the fingerings and the beat simultaneously. Don’t spend too much time on learning the fingering alone. Having more than one element to learn and putting quality into the learning will speed up your chord learning rather than slowing it down.

Learning the words to the song is easier on the surface, but once again, quality is the key. Learn HOW to sing the song, work on your phrasing. This will help to burn the words into your soul.

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