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Well… just as with any type of guitar playing, the best way to start off is to get a good guitar book, such as Guitar For Dummies, and work through it at your own pace. There are also a ton of great websites that contain chord structures, tabs, and some wonderful advice as far as technique goes.

Don’t be frustrated by your apparent lack of dexterity, that will come from hours and hours of practice. Just plug away.

Go between working on traditional chords and barre chords just to make it more interesting. Who knows, you may want to play rock guitar too someday.

Once you feel that the book isn’t showing you anything new you can think about taking lessons from a professional. Until you have the basics down this step will be a complete waste of money.

Oh, and prepare for some unbelievable pain on the ends of your fingers. Those calluses will come in slowly, but after practicing for a couple of hours you’ll have approximately two days of going between numbness and soreness.

Other than that, the best advice of all is… practice, practice, practice. Oh and persevere.

On a different note (I couldn’t resist) as far as your guitar is concerned you should have it checked out by a professional guitar tech. Having a twisted bridge or uneven frets will only add to your frustration as it will make it difficult to ring the strings correctly. Even Santana can’t make a badly set up guitar sound great.

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There are two areas to pay attention to when you wish to play the guitar well.

1. Technique

For your left hand, you need to have the right technique to position your fingers at the right place so that with minimum effort, you can press each note well and not have a “buzz”.

You need to learn where to position different notes and chords. You need to learn to change chords smoothly. All these, need lots of practice and time to hone. You need to learn these until you can do them effortlessly.

For you right hand, you can do plucking or strumming for a start. Again, you need lots of practice. The thumb usually plays the lower (bass) note (6th, 5th & 4th string), while the fingers are on the higher notes (3rd, 2nd & 1st).

Most of the time, your eyes will pay attend to the left hand, so your right hand needs to be second nature.

2. Theory

Music has a very strong mathematical foundation to it. But the good news is that it has a beautiful artistic aspect in it too.

So you can choose to approach it from either a theoretical standpoint or a musical (by ear) stand point. I started by “ear” and then I augment that with “theory”. By the way, the theory can go very deep, into Mathematics and Physics. Such as most modern day music contains error of up to 11% because of the tampered scale. But we do not want to bore you with that.

Anyway, to start off, learn the theory of “The Circle of 5ths”. For example in the key of C, related chords are F & G7. It’s relative minor is Am, and the other minor chords in the family are Em & Dm; and lastly 1 dimished chord Bdim. You can get all these from the Internet on the family of chords.

Get to learn 2 family of chords well, such as the key of C and key of G, they are the easiest to start with. With these, you can play almost any song already.

Learn your scales, start with the simple ones and you will be one your way.

Closing Remarks

I like the guitar because it is such a simple instrument and it can do so much and very affordable. When you choose a guitar, chose one that is in Pitch, so you do not develop “poor” hearing. It’s very important. Ask a good guitarist to help you to choose.

By the way, the guitar has a history of 5000 years and today, it is still giving so much joy to people and there is still so much to learn from it.