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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Basic Guitar Chords and Proper Finger Positions

Other beginners may still encounter some confusions in reading the chord chart so i think it will be much better if we have an illustration of the proper finger positions on the fret board. Be sure that all the pressed strings sound clearly and the open strings are not muted by other fingers during the chord playing.
 
Its important to curve your fingers in pressing the strings so as not to touch other open strings. I personally prefer to learn beginning guitar lessons without using a pick to acquaint ourselves to different tones of our fingers when strumming or plucking the strings. For me its important to learn to connect our bare fingers to the instrument first before we use guitar picks. While we started to enjoy how we improve in chord execution, we must not disregard how the strings sound individually because sometimes there exist some unnecessary buzz in each strings we play. Though it seems you can already sound the string, sometimes it has a distorting sound not usually noticed when you strum a chord wholly. The beginners often neglect to check how individual strings sound cause they are preoccupied in the joy of being able to sound a chord.


    
When you reached the proper finger stretched position the first time you sound a chord, always remember this needed effort for speedy finger positioning familiarity and dexterity. Constant practice is a must. Start by a single downward strum by your thumb and make your left hand fingers just adapt to strum time duration of the right hand for acquiring balance familiarization.


  


After you had learned to execute properly these first group of basic chords by a single downward stroke of the thumb, you must add some extra right hand activity. Lets say by these basic chords, learn to play by adding an upward stroke after every downward thumb stroke motion thus you can have an alternating downward (thumb) and upward (forefinger) strokes at a repeating count of "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and" and continue that until your both hands feel some extended effort to continue for another set of counts.


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