Beginner Guitar Lessons

Welcome to beginner guitar lessons. Dune here and there are several questions that I would like you to consider as you start on your quest to become a guitarist. Firstly, what style of guitar music would you like to play? What are the parts to the instrument called? What techniques should you learn to enhance your development? Is it necessary to read music? How much time should you spend practicing? Should you get private lessons? There are several others that will come up but I am going to endeavor to help you answer these questions as we move along. At the outset let me say that the guitar is a wonderful and brilliantly designed instrument. The inventor had to be a genius. The basic parts of the instrument are as follows: the headstock, the neck and the body of the guitar. (Things differ a bit when you have an acoustic or an electric instrument) Some electric guitars don’t have a headstock but that is for another discussion. Forgive me if this seems very basic but I wanted to start at the beginning. The headstock will have tuners on it and the top of the neck will have a nut where the strings cross. Then there is the fret board and the frets, which are the wire pieces on the neck. Then you have the body of the guitar, which has a sound hole (acoustic) or pickups (electric) or some have a combination of both. Then you have the tailpiece or the saddle, which is where one would string the instrument. We will continue with beginner guitar lessons in the next post…