Easy Guitar Lessons

Welcome to your first of many easy guitar lessons. Well, actually a pre-lesson.

First, we're gonna talk about the body of the guitar. There are three basic parts on guitars. They are the body, the neck, and the head.

The body is the bottom of the guitar, where you usually strum.

The neck or fret board is the part of the guitar with all of the frets and it's where you'll be positioning your fingers for chords.

The head is the place where all the funny knobs are. These are for tuning the guitar which we'll talk about in a short while on this page.

Now we're gonna talk about the strings. Each string is a note, starting with the low E (the thick string on the left below). Next is the A string, then D, G, B, and the high E. Please see the photo below. The thickest string is the low E. The thinnest string is the high E.

Most guitars just have these six strings but if you're exotic, you could be on a 12 string guitar or some crazy 20 string thing that no one has heard of!

There are many ways to tune a guitar. The most easy way to tune a guitar is to use an electronic guitar tuner. These can usually be found at your nearest music store or online. You can find a good one for about $30 to $40.

Another method to tune a guitar is to use a piano. To do this, simply play the note on the piano of the guitar string you are tuning until the guitar string sounds like the note on the piano.

The last method I'm going to talk about it tuning by ear. If you've memorized what the string is supposed to sound like, then congratulations! This is not an easy thing to do.

Now you're ready to move on to easy guitar lessons. If you have any questions about the subject of this page, contact me.

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