Left hand (Fretting hand):

Guitar posture:
Let your arm naturally hang from the guitar; dont try to rest your left elbow on your
left knee.

Develop a curve of your fingers, curved enough so that in the process of hitting some
strings of the frets you are not muting other strings.

Dont stretch your hand if it is uncomfortable. To avoid this place your thumb in a
better spot in the back of the neck to improve nature reach of the frets

When playing frets try to get as close to the front of the frets, but not on top of
them.

Right Hand (Stroking Hand):
Hold the pick in-between your thumb and leftmost knuckle.

Strumming should be one fluid motion of the forearm. Strumming primarily with the
wrist may cause pain and wont sound as good.

Do not hold onto the pick too tight and do not pluck strings too hard. When playing
guitar you should feel little resistance between the guitar and pick, as if the pick
were gliding on the strings.

To begin learning rhythm try to find an online metronome and follow the tempo with
just the strokes and no chords, or use the app Riff Station to contrast you accuracy
when following a beat.

Learning Music:
You will learn faster and better if you learn slow so you wont hit any notes. The
more you repeat, the easier tunes become.

Look for patterns in tablature and chords.




















Reading Tabs:
Virtually any song tabs can be found online, just search the name with tabs or chords depending on what
you want. As a beginner learning for rhythm start with chords and use tabs to find the riffs for those songs.

The first thing you will notice about tabs is that there are six lines. They represent
the six strings of the guitar. They look like this:
e ------------------------
B ------------------------
G ------------------------
D ------------------------
A ------------------------
E ------------------------
Rember that the high e is indicated in lower case, therefore the
highest notes marked are placed lowest on a guitar.
If the strings marked are different it means the song is to not be
played in standard tuning
Read from right to left, like reding.
Numbers represent frets. If there is more than one number, it
represents strumming.
The x means a string is not to be played
e --0--0--0--2--2--------------
B --0--0--2--3--3--------------
G --1--1--2--2--2--------------
D --2--2--2--0--0--------------
A --2--2--0--x--x--------------
E --0--0--x--x--x--------------

These special symbols are techniques to hit notes that give things
flavor.
p = pull off
h = hammer on
b = string bend
\ = slide (downward) / = slide (upward)
~ = string vibrato
Let's explain these symbols with a tab:
e |------------------------------------------------|
B |------------------------------------------------|
G |-----------------------9-11-11h12 12p11--9h11---|
D |-9-9h11--11p9--9-11/12--------------------------|
A |------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------|
Ninth fret on the D-string hit twice then hammer on 11, pull off on
nine. Play the eleventh fret, then slide to twelve. Repeat on the G-
string.