first guitar lesson – Guitar Lessons with Birdsnake

This lesson is the first guitar lesson you should watch. You will learn to play some basic chords and notes, and how to pick or strum.

We will learn some basic guitar strumming patterns, talk about switching guitar chords, play some single notes, and just go over the absolute basics of playing guitar.

Here are the chord charts for the basic chords from the video:

When you practice switching chords on guitar, just take your time. It will get easy over time, and you will get faster at guitar by practicing slow.

Here are the alternate A major chords I discuss in this guitar lesson:

I suggest learning the first shape, which I call the Mel Bay A chord because it was in the standard Mel Bay guitar books (https://amzn.to/2W8bCoz). This way your hands and brain can get used to your fingers fitting into the space of the guitar. Over time you should transition to the bar version or the 234 version which I labeled “Birdsnake A chord” above.

The cheater version of the A chord is just that, a cheat. As you develop as a guitar player there is not time or place where your fingers will be in that order across one fret, so it’s a bad habit to start.

Just for fun, here’s the 0-3-5 tab

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