How is a Guitar played | Songs with Guitar
Do you have a question in mind : how is a guitar played. Can you learn it, let's find answer in this blog. Anyone can learn to play guitar in 30 days. You can play songs with guitar after some practice. Playing a guitar is all about learning the rhythm, if you can learn few rhythms you can play a lot of songs with guitar. So how is a guitar played just play the rhythm along with the song. Take a 30 days challenge, start now!
In this blog we will look:
1) How is a Guitar played.
2) Guitar you can buy.
3) Songs with guitar.
Before going ahead let's see few guitar that you can buy.
You can watch and see how cool it is to play songs with guitar, You can impress anyone. In this song mashup all chords used are open chords and basic strumming patterns which anyone can play with some practice.
What is a guitar
Guitar is a musical instrument, which has few components
1) Head
2) neck
3) sound box.
Knowing your Guitar is important as you will need to communicate to other music players.
First we are going to be talking about getting familiar with the guitar. The different parts of the guitar.
We'll start with the simple stuff. These right here are the strings. bottom one is the first string and then the numbering system just goes up: 1, 2, and 3,4,5,6. Six being your thickest string. The next part of the guitar that we have are these little strips right here on the finger board. These divide the guitar up into half steps. So that when you're playing, you're actually going to get your tone from placing your fingers just above these frets. Then when we move up further, we get something called the head stock. This is where you're going to place a lot of your strings. It holds the tension of your guitar. It keeps everything nice and straight, and where you can also place your tuning pegs, which is the part of the guitar in which you're going to tune, or you're going to turn these things left or right depending on which way you need to go to tune your guitar you can you online guitar tuner. You're going to see 6 all the way across, or you will see this for a Martin or for some other's like Les Paul's you're going to see it on both sides like this. The next part that we're talking about is the nut. This is what holds the strings in place for your guitar, so that you don't have as much tension going on (on just the tuning pegs). It allows your guitar to stay in tune for a longer period of time. If you move on down the fingerboard , it takes us to the body. This on an acoustic guitar (as most acoustic guitars) is a hallow body, which means that you have a sound hole here. This is where your sound is going to come out and you have the most sound if you strum over the sound hole and everything like that. I have a cutaway on this body here to make it so that I can reach my higher notes when it comes time to do that. Not all guitars have that, again that's personal preference on how you wish to play. We follow down , here is the bridge of the guitar. This is what keeps your guitar in place with the body. These pin pegs is what will hold the string to the bridge on an acoustic guitar. Which applies enough tension where you can keep it in tune when you put it in tune? The next part we have is the pick guard. This is just basically (when you're strumming) and you hit your guitar it will protect your wood from any scratches that you're going to put on it.
How is a guitar played | How to play songs with guitar
To play songs with guitar perfectly you have to use both of your hands one hand for changing the chords, other hand for strumming.
How you can practice and learn to play songs
1) Practice strumming for 10 days :
You can learn basic strumming pattern. Strumming is a combination of up and down stocks. Which is denoted by 'U' and 'D' respectively.
Basic strumming pattern
The most common strumming pattern is with down stocks, you can play some songs with guitar only with down stocks. That's easy right?
Second pattern that any one can play is 'DDUUDDU' ,As I told you strumming is combination of ups and down stocks you can play many songs with this rhythms.
Third pattern that is most commonly used is 'D UDUD UDUD DU', You noticed a space in between a stock it is the gap, gap duration depends on the rhythm. And last 'DU' in the pattern is called the filler, which is used to change the chords.
2) Practice changing chords for 10 days :
Changing chords can be difficult in starting but trust me you can learn very quickly.
You can take a look at the chords chart for the simple open chords for reference.
You can also play bar chords
First focus on the open chords position in the guitar and then move to the bar chords position. There are some other chords called power chords these chords you can skip as of now.
Basics Chords progression
You can play many songs even on 2 chords : most basic chords progression are
1) D-Am2) E-D.
You can use 3 chords progression : most common chords progression are
1) E-D-Am2) E-D-G3) D-Am-C
You can use 4 chords progression : most common chords progression are
1) G-D-E-C2) E-C-G-D
3) Practice combination of strumming and chords change for 10 days:
Now you can play the combination of strumming and chord change, This is pretty cool you can now play different rhythms, few songs and after some practice you can play songs with guitar.
That's it you have to practice guitar for 30 days and you can play many songs with guitar .
Let's look for the few songs that you can play with guitar.
Songs with guitar Hindi
Gulaabi Aankhein – Sanam
Pehla Nasha
Soch Na Sake
O Oh Jaane Jaana
Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse
Pani Da Rang
Nazm nazm
Ae Dil HAi Mushkil
Pehli Nazar
Phir Kabhi
Main Hoon Hero Tera
Zara Sa
Dooba Dooba Rehta hoon - Mohit Chauhan
Give me some sunshine - 3 Idiots
Aada t- Jal
Woh Lamhe -Jal
Roobaroo - rang de basanti
Ambarsariya - Fukrey
Lukka Chuppi- Rang de Basanti
Pal- KK (Artist)
Yaaron dosti -KK
Tanha Dil - Shaan
Baatein Kuch Ankahee si - Life in a Metro
Main tenu samjhawan - Arjith singh
Tujhko Jo Paaya -crook
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Things to think before buying your 1st guitar
Let's talk about picking out your first acoustic guitar it's a question many people ask and I've been thinking about some different aspects to share with you about getting that first guitar so the first factor to think about when picking out your very first guitar is obviously your budget and I am leaving this thing up to you, you can get guitar in any price range. You will need some accessories, no fancy accessories are needed, I would suggest a clip-on tuner and a simple gig bag you know it's a soft bag that the guitar can be held in there and you'll be good to go so once you got your budget figured out you got to figure out what kind of guitar to get , now guitar can have steel strings on it the other kind of strings that you would find are called nylon strings which are those clear plastic looking strings the nylon strings are more typical with classical guitar or Spanish guitar where's the steel strings or more common with pop funk blues you know the contemporary styles and I feel like most of you will like so let's go for steel string.
Now there's also different shapes and sizes of guitars now , you might not want what's considered a jumbo guitar which would be even bigger than others you can also find guitar style called a grand auditorium however the most common shape of acoustic guitar that you're gonna find is the classic dreadnought shape there's also jumbo guitars which are obviously bigger boomy or louder but they're also gonna probably be a little bit more uncomfortable to start with but then you also have what are called parlor size guitars which are a little bit smaller and skinnier and then you also have what are called 3/4 size guitars. My recommendation is just go for standard size don't think much on this.
Another thing that's gonna be really important is the action and what the action means besides you know something that's exciting it's not as exciting as it sounds but it's it's actually the distance of the strings off the fret-board if the distance of the fret board and these are the strings to higher, higher up the harder it's gonna be and the more strength that's gonna take to get a clean tone out of it so you want a guitar with low action it'll be less frustrating to get those clean tones out and to get going playing songs.
Another feature that's on different types of guitars more advanced guitars usually is this little cutaway now this as a beginner this cutaway is not something that you're really gonna want to worry about because when you're learning you're going to spend most of your time up in this area this is more for when you're reaching up and doing soloing you're gonna see different woods like cedar and mahogany and if you're not sure which one sounds better to your own ear you may want to have a friend try out different guitars and have you stand you know maybe 10 feet back and listen to the ones that sound good to you so also you're going to have different choices on the finishes and gloss that goes on the guitar now I find with the more affordable entry-level guitars you're gonna get what's called a satin finish which isn't as shiny no the layer is less thick you can kind of feel the wood through it but you're gonna save a ton of money with a satin finish
You're ready right now to head over to and learn how is a guitar played and play songs with guitar.
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