o Certain Madness: December 2011

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Learning Basic Guitar Chords

For the meantime, i will introduce you to basic guitar chords that don't yet requires too much finger-pressing on your part. The vertical lines in the illustrations signifies 6 strings numbering from 1-6 from the right side, which means the number 1 string is the smallest treble string from the floor going up to the number 6th which is the biggest bass string closest to your face. The horizontal lines signifies the frets on the fret board of the guitar. The numbers placed on top are the fingers to use in executing the chords, they are:

forefinger-1, middle-2, ring finger-3, pinkie or small finger-4 and the thumb-T.

The letter "O" means that that string is also being played but not pressed on. The letter "X" ( in some chord charts) or the absence of any number or letter on top of every vertical line (guitar strings) means that, that string is not to be played. When you see a letter "T" on a chord pattern, it means your thumb must press that string. For now you can use a single downward strum with your thumb just to hear the sound  of a chord. Be sure you place your fingers inside the fret board space and not on the fret (horizontal line) itself to produce a better sound. Take time to execute proper finger positioning, check that all the strings you pressed on and the ones that are not pressed are both sounding clearly and practice these as often as  you want for your left hand to familiarize the chords.


Below is the G chord illustration. Here you can see the strings with the sign "O"(as in open strings) just above the vertical lines  (guitar strings) signifies the strings are to be played.
   



Here we can see the symbol "X" in the C chord.
                               
                      


Monday, December 19, 2011

Guitar Lessons For Beginners

Learning how to play guitar is a nice welcoming move for something that knocks at your door of self-improvement. Music is therapeutic and fun. Yes there's hardships learning every instrument but these things can be reduced down to small efforts coupled with achievement appreciations, dream and certain goal that you're up to. Not only is the nature of the work which are to be looked into as being helpful in its nature but also we must also learn that our small appreciation of our tasks done, our dreams and goals are also therapeutic ones to help us solve the hard parts of accomplishing a thing. The time one may allot about learning guitar can be easily included within those of leisure times. I suggest having online guitar lesson is the best as it allows you spacious options whatever things come in priorities anytime.

If you are a parent and wants your child to take guitar lesson, first see to it that your child have shown such interest by seeing them motioning the play, the gestures of the players, or sometimes their asking you in no time to buy a toy instrument. Its a good choice to enable your child to spend his/her internet time into a more educational and beneficial with the advantage of a lifetime usability. Musical training can make children healthier in all aspects, - physical, mental, emotional and social. We must no let their interest in music wasted in such useless genre and music applied to games. We must teach our children to learn to appreciate music in a more noble and balance way. And one of this is to tackle their interest in learning how to play a musical instrument of their interest. Since children nowadays are busy having too much not important activities online, having them learn guitar online will make it diverted into a useful attitude and that is through learning and discipline.
Dealing with guitar lessons online, here i can give you good judgement on how its comparatively better to have online guitar lesson: