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The single most important thing in learning to play guitar is being relaxed. If you put too much effort in and become tense your muscles will also become tense causing your fingers to become more tense and you will find it much harder. Remain relaxed and take things one step at a time. The next most important thing is the position in which you hold your guitar. Obviously, if you are left handed then you will need a left handed guitar though I will write this article as though using a right handed one.

Before you can learn to play anything on your guitar you must learn how to tune it in. There are a number of ways of doing this. If you have a piano or an electric keyboard you can tune it to the relevant notes or you can use a pitch pipe or digital tuner. The notes of each string of the guitar from top to bottom (thickest to thinnest) are E, A, D, G, B, E. Once you have tuned in your guitar, are in the playing position and keeping your muscles relaxed and staying calm you are ready to begin learning to play.

I would recommend by starting to learn a few basic major chords. Chord charts are relatively easy to understand and there are many books available detailing most chords. It's a good idea to choose three chords from a song which you can then learn to play. First, learn the positions of the chords on the guitar and practise changing between them whilst strumming. It is also important that you learn to play in time so it's a good idea to use a metronome or some kind of drum beat to play along to.

Once you have mastered both strumming in time and changing from chord to chord fluently enough, you can then work on playing parts of the song that consist of the chord structure and then go on to learn any extra chords and complete learning the entire song. At first, the notes you are playing may sound muted or chuggy but with plenty of practise, every day, you will automatically find yourself playing the notes clearer and more defined with better precision. You need to train your fingers.

Learn and memorize as many major and minor and other various chords that you can and keep practising changing between them and strumming. Once you feel you can play adequately and know enough chords it is a good idea to learn some scales and modes. Scales may seem boring to learn at first and pointless, but trust me, later on when you wish to play lead guitar your scales and modes will help you enormously.

Practice scales and modes regularly, take it slow at first to your capability and gradually increase the tempo a little bit each couple of days. Remembering scales is not as difficult as seems at first, just remember that if you are playing the C major scale you would start on fret eight on the top E string (C) and your fingers would follow a certain pattern. To play the G major scale your fingers would follow exactly the same pattern but start on fret three (G).

Now you need to practise both strumming in time, changing from chord to chord and memorize and fluently play your scales and modes. Once you become fluent in playig scales you should learn about the dynamic techniques used in guitar such as hammer-ons and pull-offs, bends, slides, artificial harmonics, harmonics and chugging. Start incorporating these techniques one at a time into your practise sessions, mastering each one seperately then regularly practising all the ones that you have learned.
Remember, practise makes perfect when learning the guitar.

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