Playing the guitar is very fun and it is a great activity in my quite time and especially in a jamming session with my friends and band mates. The best thing when you are able to play the guitar well, you can do what you want and you can be as creative as you want.
But learning how to play the guitar is very exciting and challenging. When you start learning how to play the guitar and when you are already on the process of learning and training your Physical and Head Skill. You will be amazed that playing guitar is very simple to learn and understand.
Let's start here..
Learning the guitar requires 2 important skills
1.) Physical skills
Learning to use your body and hands and where to place your fingers to play chords, scales and songs.
2.) Head skills
Leads to a total domination of fretboard. It's about understanding the "WHY" of chords and scales and how they work together. Plus understanding how the guitar fretboard is organized, and how to "navigate" your way around it without fumbling or making mistakes.
Learning how to play the guitar means you are willing to embrace the "World of Music". But don't worry were not going to study all the branches of music or how and where it cam from.. etc..
In playing the guitar we must understand that we must have the basic foundation of in music theory. Because you cannot start without basic music foundation. Especially on all things you want to do you need a concrete foundation. For instance, when making a building; you can't start on second floor first and you must have a foundation before you go to the second floor.
In learning guitar, to be a good / excellent guitar player. It is not recommended to go to the advance level first. You must have to learn the BASIC.
What is a Chord/Chords = chord / chords is also a key and it is a Family of 7 different notes that all harmonize with each other.
These are the C - D - E - F - G - A - B chords
And there are 12 Keys all in all that you can actually play based on our western scale of music and made up of half and whole step in other term 1 semitone and 1 tone.
See the picture below
Showing all the 12 keys, this is the Note Circle
