Important Tips To Learn Guitar

Learning guitar could be split into two primary classes - the physical and thetheoretical. The physical aspects of learning guitar are the finger exercises and techniques you use to show your theoretical knowledge to the fretboard. As you are likely to see, one cannot exist without the other. After you have learned those first few chords, basicstrumming/picking patterns and scale fingerings, and also you start to focus more closely on things likeharmony and tonality, there is often an overwhelming feeling that there is much more to learning guitar than just "where to place your fingers".



First thing to note is that music theory can get very profound and sophisticated. It takes years to fully get manytheoretical elements. Therefore, right from day 1, you need patience! In addition, you should be willing to get your head down to read and study diagrams with the same rigoras you would if studying at school/university. This is what puts off a great deal of guitarists with a "quick fix" mindset. Dedicate practise time to bothphysical and theoretical elements daily and the two will marry naturally over time. You'll see!



Therefore, where to begin?



1) Know what intervals are and how they work on guitar



You may have learned a few scale fingerings, however do you understand howspecific intervals make up the unique tonal structure of such scale? Scale intervals, the spaces between each of the scale's tones, are measured in "half steps/semitones" and "whole steps/whole tones", and a sequence of whole steps and half steps in different combinations creates different scales. Intervals are,quite literally then, the building blocks of scales. For example, the major scale's intervals are (where W = whole step and H = halfstep):



1 W 2 W 3 H 4 W 5 W 6 W 7 H 1... (duplicate from 1 again)



So, first you should learn how whole step and half step intervals work on the fretboard, both on one string as well as in the relationship between two strings. For example, a major 3rd interval is madeup of two notes, two whole steps apart. You could either map this interval out across one string (half step = 1 fretspace, whole step = 2 fret space) or across two strings. Mastering intervals prepares you for understanding your wayaround scales like the back of your hand.



2) Know the major scale right across the guitar fretboard



The major scale is seen as the elementary scale western music is referenced against. Even minor scales are notated againstthe major scale's note positions. For example, a minor third is symbolised as "b3 (flat 3rd)" because the 3rd has beenflattened/lowered a half step from its original, major scale position.



In the event that you come across the symbol "#5 (sharp 5th)" that refers to the tone beingsharpened/raised a half step from its initial major scale location. When learning the major scale,it is necessary to get used to seeing the 1st tone - 1 -as the "root note". The note of this root note defines the crucial center of the scale. To change key,merely transfer the root note and the interval structure with it. This is why scale patterns can only be shifted up and down the fretboard to shift key without changing their form/fingering. You can apply this root note/key concept to all other scales you learn.





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