How to Play Guitar - Lesson One

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Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar? Well it's easier than you think. If all you learn is three chords you could be playing songs already. One of the first songs I teach you to learn after you learn the first three basic ones C, G, and D major is "There she goes" by Sixpence None the Richer. Personally I recommend learning them as opposed to learning tabs because the learning-tabs-first-approach causes confusion because differences in tabs for the exact same song can vary widely. I am not anti-tabs. I am just suggesting you learn a few basic chords first which will then make it easier for you to learn more and more. This will open your eyes to complex tabs and open the opportunity to learn more music.

The first three basic chords I'm going to teach you are G, C, and D. G looks like this. Play it. Lift your fingers off the strings and re-finger it again doing it faster and faster each time. Thats G. Next is C. It looks like this. Play it. Lift up your fingers, re-finger the chord a few times again. Now play the G chord. Now play the C chord. Jump your fingers back and forth a few times from chord to chord so you get the transition down.

You don't have to be perfect at it. Lets move on to the D chord. The D chord looks like this. Play it and re-finger it as few times. Now go back to the G chord, play it. now go back to the C chord play it. Now go G to C, D to G etc. Practice moving your fingers back and forth, from chord to chord. You'll get faster the more you practice. Now play those chords in order G,C, D there she goes. Congratulations you've completed your first guitar lesson! In lesson number two you'll learn three more chords that will enable you to play even more songs!