Welcome to Play Your Guitar In 48 Hours Or Less: The Ultimate, Quick-Start Guide For New Guitarists! The lessons in this guide will put you on the path to learning guitar quickly and easily.
You could be well on your way to playing your first song on the guitar by the time you finish studying these lessons, or at least be able to “fake it” enough to impress your friends.
Whether you’ve struggled to learn guitar in the past, or are completely new to the instrument, I think you’ll find the unique approach offered in this guide to be very helpful. Learning your instrument can and should be a rewarding process.
In my experience, the reason most beginning guitarists give up in frustration is because traditional music instruction fails to provide relevant (read: “contemporary”) contexts for putting theory into practice.
There’s a good chance that you are wanting to learn guitar in order to play rock, blues, folk or country music — or maybe even classical or Spanish guitar? In other words, you want to learn your instrument through the same style of music you’re most likely to play on it.
Most instructional books for guitar, however, start you off with mind-numbing exercises where you are asked to learn, for example, the first few notes of the open-position scale for the key of C by playing things like
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
Boring!
Don’t get me wrong, there is a benefit to learning such simple melodies. The well known lullabys, anthems, folk songs and other standards from childhood are second-nature to most of us, and this helps the beginner train the ear to associate notes with their proper names.
However, it is just as reasonable to say that a majority of would-be guitarists have modern melodies (like The Beatles’ “Taxman” or Nirvana’s “All Apologies”) seared into memory — and these melodies are equally valid for use in learning your scales and chords!
While I can’t promise you’ll become a ‘guitar god’ overnight, I can promise you that you’ll get some entertaining examples of scales and chord progressions as used in popular music.
So, pay close attention to the material and make sure you practice as instructed, and you’ll start to sound like a real guitar player in no time!
