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Learning to play the guitar can be an entertaining and satisfying experience.   There’s nothing better than performing in front of your friends and family by playing some popular songs.  Unfortunately, it is not easy to learn guitar for beginners especially if you don’t know where to start.  It takes time to figure out how to play the guitar, and if you are impatient, you may quit before you are able to play anything worthwhile.

To learn the guitar requires you to master the fundamentals.  First off, your guitar needs to be in tune, otherwise every note you play will sound awful.  Without tuning your guitar on a regular basis, your strings will become stretched and sound distorted.  The standard tuning for a guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E.  Although there are other tunings, it is best to start with this one first.

Once your guitar is in tune, you can start playing some notes with it.  To play a note, take one of the strings, and press down on it on one of the frets with one finger, and pluck at the string with your other hand.  Play around and do the same thing with different frets on the same string. Congratulations, you are playing the guitar.

Now that you can play a few notes, the next step is to learn to play some basic chords.  Using a guitar chord chart, find a few simple chords to try and play.  It will take some time to train your fingers to play chords properly, but don’t give up.  You will get the hang of them, and eventually you should be able to go back and forth between a few alternate chords at once.

It may become a little boring playing these simple notes and chords.  There is nothing that will inspire your guitar learning faster than being able to play your first song.  For this, you should find some guitar tabs to play.  Guitar tabs are great because they allow you to start playing songs without having the ability to read sheet music and there are tabs for almost any song.  The tabs are a simple diagram that displays the 6 strings of the guitar along with numbers that represent the fret you should press for each note.  What you should do is just pick an easy song to learn and practice it until it becomes natural for you to play.  Take your time, and you will be playing the song in no time.  Although there is still much to learn, you are well on your way to learning to play the guitar.

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