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Left hand (Fretting hand): Guitar posture: Let your arm naturally hang from the guitar; don’t try to rest your left elbow on your left knee. Develop a curve of your fingers, curved enough so that in the process of hitting some strings of the frets you are not muting other strings. Don’t stretch your hand if it is uncomfortable. To avoid this place your thumb in a better spot in the back of the neck to improve nature reach of the frets When playing frets try to get as close to the front of the frets, but not on top of them. Right Hand (Stroking Hand): Hold the pick in-between your thumb and leftmost knuckle. Strumming should be one fluid motion of the forearm. Strumming primarily with the wrist may cause pain and won’t sound as good. Do not hold onto the pick too tight and do not pluck strings too hard. When playing guitar you should feel little resistance between the guitar and pick, as if the pick were gliding on the strings. To begin learning rhythm try to find an online metronome and follow the tempo with just the strokes and no chords, or use the app ”Riff Station” to contrast you accuracy when following a beat. Learning Music: You will learn faster and better if you learn slow so you won’t hit any notes. The more you repeat, the easier tunes become. Look for patterns in tablature and chords.

Reading Tabs: Virtually any song tabs can be found online, just search the name with “tabs” or chords “depending on what you want”. As a beginner learning for rhythm start with chords and use tabs to find the riffs for those songs. The first thing you will notice about tabs is that there are six lines. They represent the six strings of the guitar. They look like this: e -----------------------B -----------------------G -----------------------D -----------------------A -----------------------E -----------------------Rember that the high e is indicated in lower case, therefore the highest notes marked are placed lowest on a guitar. If the strings marked are different it means the song is to not be played in standard tuning Read from right to left, like reding. Numbers represent frets. If there is more than one number, it represents strumming. The x means a string is not to be played e --0--0--0--2--2-------------B --0--0--2--3--3-------------G --1--1--2--2--2-------------D --2--2--2--0--0-------------A --2--2--0--x--x-------------E --0--0--x--x--x-------------These special symbols are techniques to hit notes that give things flavor. p = pull off h = hammer on b = string bend \ = slide (downward) 
 / = slide (upward) ~ = string vibrato Let's explain these symbols with a tab: e |------------------------------------------------| B |------------------------------------------------| G |-----------------------9-11-11h12 12p11--9h11---| D |-9-9h11--11p9--9-11/12--------------------------| A |------------------------------------------------| E |------------------------------------------------| Ninth fret on the D-string hit twice then hammer on 11, pull off on nine. Play the eleventh fret, then slide to twelve. Repeat on the Gstring.