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How to Tune a Guitar to Itself Using the Fifth-Fret Method
Tuning a guitar to itself using the fifth-fret method is an important and useful guitar skill. The fifth-fret method is the most common type of relative tuning, and it's all you need if you're planning [more…]
How to Find Notes on a Guitar
Finding notes on your guitar is not the same as reading notes on sheet music. To understand how to find notes on a guitar, it helps to break up the neck of the guitar to see where all the notes lie. [more…]
The Anatomy of an Acoustic Guitar
All guitars share certain characteristics that make them behave like guitars and not violins or tubas. Understanding the anatomy of an acoustic guitar is important for understanding how to make music with [more…]
How Guitar Strings and Frets Work
Guitar strings create musical sound through vibration. Understanding how strings work with frets to create specific vibrations (and therefore specific tones) will help you to understand why your guitar [more…]
The Anatomy of an Electric Guitar
All guitars share certain characteristics that make them behave like guitars and not violins or tubas. Understanding the anatomy of an electric guitar is important for understanding how to make music with [more…]
How to Evaluate a Guitar
When you go shopping for a new guitar, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of guitars available in every style. It's important to know how to evaluate a guitar's quality to ensure that you are getting [more…]
How to Properly Hold a Guitar
Whether you sit or stand while playing the guitar won't affect your tone or technique. What can make a difference is if you're not holding the guitar properly. Most people prefer to practice while sitting [more…]
How to Position Your Left Hand for Acoustic Guitar
Your left hand should fall in place very naturally on the neck of the acoustic guitar. When you play the guitar, your hands should be comfortable and relaxed. If you don't use correct left-hand positioning [more…]
How to Position Your Left Hand for Electric Guitar
Proper electric guitar technique will help you more quickly get to the point where you can rock all night without your hands cramping or hurting. Paying attention to how you position your left hand [more…]
How to Position Your Right Hand for Pick-style Guitar Playing
It's important to learn how to position your right hand for pick-style guitar playing. If you use an electric guitar, it's almost exclusively played with a pick, whether you’re belting out rock ’n’ roll [more…]
How to Position Your Right Hand for Fingerpicking Your Guitar
If you eschew such paraphernalia as picks and want to go au naturel with your right hand, you should try finger-style playing, or fingerpicking. Fingerpicking [more…]
How to Read a Guitar Chord Diagram
Although you don’t need to read music to play the guitar, you will want to learn how to read chord diagrams. Musicians have developed a few simple tricks, such as chord diagrams, to enable them to communicate [more…]
How to Properly Hold a Classical Guitar
To sound authentic when you play classical guitar, you must play it in the classical style. That means you have to follow the specific rules about how you hold the guitar, position your hands, and play [more…]
How to Position Your Right Hand for Classical Guitar
To sound authentic when you play classical guitar, you must play it in the classical style. After posture, learning how to position your right-hand is the most critical consideration for achieving a true [more…]
How to Position Your Left Hand for Classical Guitar
Classical guitarists play their instruments quite differently from that of any other guitar style. When you're learning how to position your left hand for fingering frets in the classical style, try to [more…]
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