Trying my hand at guitar
So my pretty wife has her guitar lying around at home, and I decided that I want to try and learn to play. So I found an awesome online tutorial at http://guitar.about.com/od/guitarlessons/u/lessons.htm.
Then last night I finally decide I will have my first lesson. I read through the first parts to get to know what the terms are, the head, neck, fret, etc.
The first little exercise is an exercise to practise your picking. Actually, before that it’s how to hold the guitar right so that it feels a bit more comfortable. Well, their comfortable is definitely not my comfortable. Anyways, the first exercise is quite easy. You use your thumb, index finger, middle finger and ring finger to pick at string 4,3,2 and 1 in that order. At the same time trying to keep a rhythm going. I found that relatively easy, but will need to practise it a LOT more.
The next exercise is what is called the Chromatic scale. This exercise is to get your fingers use to pushing down on the strings and hearing how it sounds. You basically start with the 6th string first. You pick at it, and listen to the note. Then you use your index finger to hold down the first fret, pick it and then listen to it again. Then you hold down the 3rd one, and listen again. And so on and so on. You then continue to the 5th string until you’ve done them all. Now this is where the fun started. Being able to hold down the strings without touching any other strings at the same time is going to take some practice.
Holding your fretting hand in just the right place twists your hand in such a way that you can only keep at this for a few minutes at a time. In the beginning I suppose.
Well, let’s see how this progresses! 