Guitar Finger Picking Exercises

So you have your new guitar, and you're ready to start learning to play. Of course, you're very excited. And perhaps a little uncomfortable, too. Now, let us know your new guitar to start a long and rich friendship.

Always remember to treat your guitar the same way you treat a person you are fond. Pick it up slowly and carefully. Stroking it. Handle it with care. Learn to have a sense of care with love, not a feeling of fear.

Now, let's follow the steps below, so you will become familiar with your new guitar:

• Get your new guitar tune, or set it yourself, at least about (which is the subject of a new article soon).

  Sit up straight with your foot in left leg on something five to six inches tall. Feel your body, legs and arms relaxed.

• Place your guitar on the left leg raised. The machine set-up should be the same level as your head. Place your right arm over the guitar body. On your left hand, as you do not will fret any string up to now, no matter where you put it, as long as it does not interfere with the sound. Try to feel more comfortable.
• As the next steps will be talking about strings, you must know, first, that the guitar strings are named, from bottom to top: first (thinnest), second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth (the thickest) string.
• Well, let's take action! Make a downward stroke (strumming), playing all six strings with the nail of the middle finger right hand. To do so, not too slow nor too fast. Do it tenderly. Wow This was his first sound out of your guitar! Did you like it? Of course you did. You can do better? You bet!
• Try again. And again. And again. Not less twenty or thirty times. Every time you play it, try to figure out what you do not like, and concentrate on doing better next time.
• Do the same strumming downward, but now with the fleshy part (not the nail), the right side of the tip of the thumb. Again, do it, not too slow nor too fast. And do it with tenderness. No less than twenty to thirty times. Focusing on making it better each time.
• Now, play the sixth string, fifth and fourth, with a downward motion to pull the right hand thumb. No matter, now, if you pluck them with your fingernail or with a fleshy fingertip. So, without interruption, and a movement to boot up, play the third string with your index finger, the second string with your middle finger, and the first string with the ring finger. Again, it does not matter, for now, if you pluck them with your fingernail or with a fleshy fingertip. Play all strings slowly, you're not strumming.
• Not less than twenty to thirty times, concentrating more than ever, to do it better.

Do all exercises From now on, you will bear in mind that each time you play your instrument in its second most important goal (see the first of a new article coming soon) will be a sound quality: a clean sound musical. Do not forget that, even for a second single: sound quality!

Well, now you are certainly much more familiar with his guitar.
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Luis BONVIN has a life of guitar playing and teaching. He wants to help people to learn, step by step, how to play guitar. To further discover how quickly and easily you can play guitar, please visit his Beginner Guitar Lessons Website. Let him know about your interests or leave your comments at Beguiner Guitar Squidoo Lens.

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