Strumming the Guitar Basics

The first element of learning to properly strum a guitar is to learn how to hold the guitar pick. The short video below demonstrates how to practice strumming the guitar strings without being too concerned about finger position and in fact, just strumming the guitar strings without the fret hand touching the strings at all.



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Choosing guitar strings

Choosing guitar strings doesn't have to be difficult. The first step to choosing your guitar strings starts with the type of guitar you have or the style of music you want to play.

There are nylon guitar strings for classical style playing, nickel guitar strings for electric guitars. They can also be stainless steel guitar strings, however nickel is far more popular.

For an acoustic guitar, you are likely to want bronze guitar strings, with the first three strings being stainless steel.

Those are the three major differences in choosing your guitar strings. The video below recaps the information in this blog and also provides a visual for your information.




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Guitar Basics - Getting started

If you are thinking about learning how to play the guitar. It is important to consider what items you will need to get started.

The first decision is to decide which type of guitar you are going to choose. The two basic types are acoustic or electric.

If you choose the electric guitar, you will also need to choose a quality guitar chord, and a quality amplifier.

You are also going to need a guitar strap, possibly a guitar case, and a backup set of guitar strings.

The video below covers most of these key points.



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You can Tune a Guitar

Next to knowing how to change your guitar strings, knowing how to tune your guitar is probably equally as important.

There are several more advanced guitar strings tunings, such as drop 'D' and other creative tunings to give you those different tones, which we will cover in later posts.

Today we will cover what is called the standard guitar strings tuning.

Your strings will sound in the following notes from top to bottom - E-A-D-G-B-E. There are several ways to accomplish getting the tuning of your guitar completed. The easiest of which is through the use of chromatic tuners, which you can find for very reasonable prices.

There are also methods like harmonic tuning, which again will be covered in later blogs.

The video below will focus on the simplest of tuning methods, which utilizes learning the note positions on each guitar string to subsequently tune each consecutive string.



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Guitar Strings and Accessories

This blog is designed to help answer questions about guitar strings and guitar accessories, as well as anything related to music.

Let's start with learning how to change your guitar strings first.

The video here demonstrates the easiest way to change your guitar strings:




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