Learning Guitar tips for very beginners

What is the exact method in learning guitar? This is a question which has inspired since the day one of learning guitar as my music expression. And yes I’m a beginner for a life time. I have seen so many guitarists and virtuosos with their bright achievements and at some point I feel so down just by hearing their compositions. But I’m not a quitter. So I made this blog as my approaching method in learning guitar. Yup, by sharing what I’ve learnt so far and asking responses around the internet, again and over again then learn the new knowledge I got from doing that. That is my guitar learning system.
What I got so far actually is very helpful, and I’d like to share them here as Learning Guitar tips. Some tips for beginner guitar players just like me. Here are some of them.First, choose your own guitar. It’s kind of difficult thing, because, as a beginner, we can’t be sure which guitar suits to our learning. Well, there you must have friends whom you trust to accompany you to guitar shop, or, you read carefully about guitar around here on the internet. Some technical stuff those can’t be ignored about guitar is:
Woods. Regular guitars are made from woods and definitely you can’t miss this. There are so many kinds of woods for guitar. Mahogany, maple woods, alder, nyatoh woods, rosewood are among them. Each has its own characteristics in building the output sounds.  What we really must concern is, the wood must be dry and strong.  All guitar brands put this on top priority.
Crafting and precisions. Both hand-made and machine-made guitars need to be precisely built. This is vital point that you can’t ignore. Some guitars just fit to our hands and we ne need to try them at guitar shop before we buy them.
Pickups and other accessories. Latest technology made them possible to get the highest quality and precisions. The bridge, headstocks and guitar strings are things develop rapidly these days, you can read more details on the internet about this and get amazed on how far they go for this. Second, tune the guitar. For me, tune guitar strings learning is the basic idea to deliver us to the next level. Without this knowledge, we will wandering around and achieve nothing in progress. The standard tuning for guitar is:
– High E for the first string,
– B for the second string,
– G for the third string,
– D for the fourth string,
– A for the fifth string,
– Low E for the sixth string
It is known by the name EADGBE tuning (last E is for the smallest string) and I think that all of us need to know this before we learn chords and lead playing or any other skills. You can get help in tuning your guitar with guitar tuner online here.

Third are notes and their intervals on guitar. The dots on guitar help us mark the notes. All things about scales and modes, circle diagrams or other kind alike, need to be converted on guitar fretboard so we can translate the notes fluently.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (C D E F G A B) is the best thing to start. You can use guitar learning software if you want to. Indeed it helps a lot.

Fourth is learning guitar chords. After we learn about the notes, the next thing is finding out about how those notes build the chords. Chords consist of notes that played in one at a time. There are various ways to approach this section, so far stuff that comes in handy when we learn the chords, and at least there are basically five kinds of chords:
Major chords        : consist of 1-3-5 (C – E – G)
Minor chords        : consist of 1-3b-5 (C -E flat -G)
Dominant chords    : consist of 1-3-5-7b (C – E -G -B flat)
Diminished chords    : consist of 1-3b-5b (C – E flat – G flat)
Augmented chords    : consist of 1-3-5# (C – E – G sharp)

Pick only your favorite songs to learn guitar. There we will have the never-end spirit in learning  guitar songs learning is my best way.

Of course this is only a brief guitar lessons. There will be more detailed posts about all these. This tips I made is for beginner guitarists who want to know some stuff the guitarist can’t be ignored. I hope this helps. Any responses, please?

Choosing Guitar Strings brands

you’ve just back from a guitar shop, or your guitar order has arrived then you found yourself lying on a couch with a guitar on your side. Big grin on your face, suddenly your brain said something, “i got a guitar! so what’s next?!”.. “plug it and play it loud? shred all along the fretboard? licks and arpeggios? or play the minus-one and jam along with it?”.. nahh.. you gotta tune your guitar first and make sure everything’s ready before you rock. and i think we all agree about one thing here. first we have to replace the guitar strings with the new one.

Guitar Strings
Choosing Guitar Strings

nobody is satisfied with the factory guitar strings. some of guitars were on shop display for too long. dirt and strings rust came along with the package. we all need to replace them with the new one and i believe that a brief of electric guitar strings reviews i share here will helps.
here is what i got from wikipedia about electric guitar string sizes:

The following table displays the gauges in inches: (Note: strings in dark gray boxes are wound. All others are plain.)

Name 1
(e)
2
(B)
3
(G)
4
(D)
5
(A)
6
(E)
7
(B)
Extra super light (8–38) .008 .010 .015 .021 .030 .038
Extra super light plus (8.5–39) .0085 .0105 .015 .022 .032 .039
Super light (9–42,52) .009 .011 .016 .024 .032 .042 .052
Super light plus (9.5–44,54) .0095 .0115 .016 .024 .034 .044 .054
Regular light (10–46,56) .010 .013 .017 .026 .036 .046 .056
Extra light w/heavy bass (9–46,56) .009 .011 .016 .026 .036 .046 .056
Medium (11–49,59) .011 .014 .018 .028 .038 .049 .059
Light Top / Heavy Bottom (10–52,60) .010 .013 .017 .032 .042 .052 .060
Medium w/wound G string (11–52,60) .011 .013 .020 .030 .042 .052 .060
Heavy (12–54,62) .012 .016 .020 .032 .042 .054 .062
Extra heavy (13–56,65) .013 .017 .026 .036 .046 .056 .065

I’ve tried few guitar strings brands and here’s my results.

– first brand which got my attention is D’addario guitar strings. It is well known and I’d been using D’addario electric guitar strings for many times. it has good tone clarity but for my playing, it doesn’t come with age ( i used .008 size package for D’addario experiences) i could broke the second and the third string (but not the first string!) in the next two months after i installed them on my guitar. the price is okay, not too expensive for my budget and i had good times with d’addario strings. you can check them here for detailed information.

– the next brand is, of course Ernie Ball guitar strings. a bunch of virtuosos use this brand, for me the price is affordable. its tone clarity is great and I’m happy about its various sizes options. for my playing, Ernie Ball electric guitar strings has accompany me in knowing guitar strings sizes and experiencing the different tones of each size options such like Ernie Ball® Extra Slinky, Ernie Ball® Super Slinky and Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky . the durability is fine, mostly i use .009 size package for ernie ball experience,  it’s about 3-4 months age before they sound dull. it is one of my favorite brand, you can get the detailed product information here.

Ernie Ball guitar strings
Ernie Ball® Hybrid Slinky with hybrid size to accomplish the strings tone needs

– There times i want to try other guitar brands, and i found my luck with Gallistrings. this brand is affordable and i trust my budget on this one. it has similar durability with previous strings brands i’ve mentioned and galli strings electric guitar strings comes with reasonable price. my friend once referred me this brand and i’m satisfied by it. it is made in Italy,you can check its details here.

– and so far what i can get for my guitar is Elixir® Strings. somehow its price is way up more expensive than other I’ve mentioned here on my post in my country, but check this out, i kinda guarantee you that Elixir® Strings electric guitar strings tone lasts longer than any other strings brand does. a year of no-breaking strings and the tone is acceptable. no rust. I’ve used .010 size package and yes maybe their tone decreased a little, but it’s a big OKAY for my sound. but again, the price is included into my considerations. see the Elixir® Strings products and put your guitar strings order here.

guitar strings choices

well. that’s my experiences about guitar strings brand, just a few maybe, but I’m sure that will help other guitar learners to decide before they tuning the guitar.