If you are reading this and Valentine’s Day is past, you can still try to learn a song as a gift for the one you love. You could try some online guitar lessons for beginners. Some of the beginner guitar lessons are for learning to play in several hours. It is possible to go from knowing nothing about playing a guitar to learning a basic song!
Imagine how impressed that someone you love (or someone you want to notice you or are trying to get a date with) would be if you showed up and played a song for him or her as a valentine gift.
Online Guitar Lessons:
Everyone knows there are tons of videos to watch at YouTube. The guitar lessons available online are mostly good (but not all of them are great). You can find funny or humorous guitar players, serious players who give you lessons, and awesome, inspirational guitar teachers. That may not be a good starting place – there are entire websites with beginner guitar lessons that are better.
With so many online guitar tutorials and videos, it’s getting easier to learn to play any instrument, especially the guitar. You can become overloaded with choices with all the online guitar lessons (acoustic and electric) and types of music being taught. Take the time to find what is best for you. First of all, check out the information at.About dot com, where you can find good introductory, free lessons (you can visit their site and do a search for free guitar lessons). Just remember that a guitar course for free might not be the best source for the best instruction.
Often new guitar players start learning to play an acoustic guitar (though some people start learning on an electric guitar). To learn the basics, the guitar you have may be ok to use. We’ll talk next about some guitar buying tips, in case you need a new guitar or don’t have one.
Tips on Buying a Guitar
First, do some research about whichever type of guitar you are going to buy (acoustic or electric). To get more knowlegable about the guitars that are currently manufactured and sold, do some online research or visit a guitar shop. Just learn and look at the guitars, don’t buy one yet.
Second, if you have friends who play guitar, ask them what they recommend or see if they will go guitar shopping with you.
Third, be patient and don’t be impulsive about your purchase.
Fourth, if you can’t get a friend to go with you, have someone in the store play the guitars so you can hear the differences of their sounds.
Fifth, take your time and try out as many guitars in as many stores as you want to. This will help you get the feel of which guitar sounds and plays best for you.
Sixth, if you find a guitar you want, talk about any deals that the seller can make – they are often able to sell it to you for less than what is on the price tag.
Seventh, don’t forget to buy a guitar case – a hard shell case protects the guitar best.
If You Are Serious about Learning to Play Guitar
It’s best, if you are a beginner, to have a program that is specially designed to take you through step-by-step – starting with basic knowledge such as how to hold a guitar, guitar tuning, and learning basic chords. Without knowing some basic chords, you won’t be able to start making real guitar music – you’ll just be making noise!
If you want to learn quickly and have something to show for it as soon as possible, don’t start with learning scales or other technical, advanced stuff. If internet lessons aren’t best for you, there are lessons on DVDs or CDs that teach easy guitar songs. If you don’t need to learn in the next week you could get a guitar course on CDs or DVDs which allow you to learn without being online. This is a really comprehensive course on DVDs (only look at this if you are serious) – Learn and Master Guitar.
So quit banging around on your guitar and take a few hours to learn to play a song for yourself or for your Valentine.
