Letter to beginning guitar players.
Dear friends, It’s good that you’ve picked up guitar.
I know that guitar will definitely enrich your life. Since you start learning guitar, I want to ask you why you picked up guitar. Did you pick this up to make your own music? Play your favorite songs? Get rich and famous? Play music for your church? Or just to play with your buddies? Whatever reasons you have, I’m sure that learning guitar is something respectable and valuable.
You know that learning guitar will make your dreams and goals to be true. You have images or dreams of you which you can be when you get good at guitar playing. Mine was to make a Jam band and play music for people. It is such a great and exciting feeling to have that images and dreams in your head. It makes you just feel good.
However, as a beginner, learning guitar can be overwhelming and confusing. I know how it feels. You don’t know where to start. Unless you have a professional to teach you how to play guitar, it is very hard to collect information and learn guitar by yourself. I’ve been there. Information is everywhere, not organized or structured. Lessons for beginners on line just aren’t comprehensive enough to teach beginners to continue to learn guitar. Many beginners give up guitar playing because they can’t teach themselves to intermediate level where you grasp bit about this instruments and have sets of skills and knowledge that allow you to teach yourself how to play guitar. However, it is very crucial that you, as a beginning guitar player, pull yourself to be in that level.
You come to this site because you were reading one of my articles, searched around, and click links to this page. Whichever case you are, I’m glad that you made it here. I’ll provide you with useful tips for beginners. Info sections above are basic information which beginning guitar player should learn as foundations. There are my lessons for beginners. Also, I’ll post my articles that will help beginners to learn to have foundation knowledge to become a guitar player.
As a beginner, learning this information is very valuable. A beginner will have basic understanding of this instrument to dig deeper and deeper. As you learn more and more you will find yourself to have your own style of music, have practical skills to play, know how to make your own music, and how to enjoy music.
For beginners there are many traps that will hinder you from becoming good guitar player. First, when you first start learning, your fingers will hurt. Beginners won’t know effective ways to learn fretboard. Beginners won’t know how they can build chords and scales. Without professional assistances you will find it hard to understand and have these skills in your pocket. In my lessons, I’ll add what I learned when I was a beginner. I had very hard times to learn. When I look back if I just got someone professional to help me, I could’ve learned guitar much fast and effectively. When I was a beginner, I encountered many difficulties that without professional help I had them hard to overcome.
I have made lessons comprehensive enough for beginners. Learn all Info sections if possible. It will give beginning guitar players to have basic understanding of guitar. My lesson will cover basic to intermediate. I’ll show you from how to tune your guitar, to how to build your own chords and understand scales. It is comprehensive information I’ve gathered and learned. Also, I’ll add tips to enhance beginners to be better, and warnings about traps and difficulties to let you know how to overcome to be better guitar player.
If you find my lessons useful and informative, please stay in touch with me. I’ve made this site for one of my dreams as a guitar player. I want to build social network of guitar players around globe. I’m planning to travel all around the world. I’ve been traveling since I was in 6th grade. I’ve been to many different countries. Traveling and music are two of my favorite hobbies. I would like to travel around the globe, at the same time I want to meet musicians in different area codes to play music. If you can learn guitar comprehensively and with professional help, you will be able to have your own color in 2 or 3 years. I would love to get in touch and play music when I’m around your area. It will be fun. And this is one of reasons why I picked up guitar.
For beginners, this proposition may sound out of hand. However, just start playing guitar and fall in love with it. I’m sure you will have same desire to play music with different guitarists. Okay, I think this is enough of me talking.
I look forward to hear form y’all. Have fun playing.
Bye~
Hansol-
I know that guitar will definitely enrich your life. Since you start learning guitar, I want to ask you why you picked up guitar. Did you pick this up to make your own music? Play your favorite songs? Get rich and famous? Play music for your church? Or just to play with your buddies? Whatever reasons you have, I’m sure that learning guitar is something respectable and valuable.
You know that learning guitar will make your dreams and goals to be true. You have images or dreams of you which you can be when you get good at guitar playing. Mine was to make a Jam band and play music for people. It is such a great and exciting feeling to have that images and dreams in your head. It makes you just feel good.
However, as a beginner, learning guitar can be overwhelming and confusing. I know how it feels. You don’t know where to start. Unless you have a professional to teach you how to play guitar, it is very hard to collect information and learn guitar by yourself. I’ve been there. Information is everywhere, not organized or structured. Lessons for beginners on line just aren’t comprehensive enough to teach beginners to continue to learn guitar. Many beginners give up guitar playing because they can’t teach themselves to intermediate level where you grasp bit about this instruments and have sets of skills and knowledge that allow you to teach yourself how to play guitar. However, it is very crucial that you, as a beginning guitar player, pull yourself to be in that level.
You come to this site because you were reading one of my articles, searched around, and click links to this page. Whichever case you are, I’m glad that you made it here. I’ll provide you with useful tips for beginners. Info sections above are basic information which beginning guitar player should learn as foundations. There are my lessons for beginners. Also, I’ll post my articles that will help beginners to learn to have foundation knowledge to become a guitar player.
As a beginner, learning this information is very valuable. A beginner will have basic understanding of this instrument to dig deeper and deeper. As you learn more and more you will find yourself to have your own style of music, have practical skills to play, know how to make your own music, and how to enjoy music.
For beginners there are many traps that will hinder you from becoming good guitar player. First, when you first start learning, your fingers will hurt. Beginners won’t know effective ways to learn fretboard. Beginners won’t know how they can build chords and scales. Without professional assistances you will find it hard to understand and have these skills in your pocket. In my lessons, I’ll add what I learned when I was a beginner. I had very hard times to learn. When I look back if I just got someone professional to help me, I could’ve learned guitar much fast and effectively. When I was a beginner, I encountered many difficulties that without professional help I had them hard to overcome.
I have made lessons comprehensive enough for beginners. Learn all Info sections if possible. It will give beginning guitar players to have basic understanding of guitar. My lesson will cover basic to intermediate. I’ll show you from how to tune your guitar, to how to build your own chords and understand scales. It is comprehensive information I’ve gathered and learned. Also, I’ll add tips to enhance beginners to be better, and warnings about traps and difficulties to let you know how to overcome to be better guitar player.
If you find my lessons useful and informative, please stay in touch with me. I’ve made this site for one of my dreams as a guitar player. I want to build social network of guitar players around globe. I’m planning to travel all around the world. I’ve been traveling since I was in 6th grade. I’ve been to many different countries. Traveling and music are two of my favorite hobbies. I would like to travel around the globe, at the same time I want to meet musicians in different area codes to play music. If you can learn guitar comprehensively and with professional help, you will be able to have your own color in 2 or 3 years. I would love to get in touch and play music when I’m around your area. It will be fun. And this is one of reasons why I picked up guitar.
For beginners, this proposition may sound out of hand. However, just start playing guitar and fall in love with it. I’m sure you will have same desire to play music with different guitarists. Okay, I think this is enough of me talking.
I look forward to hear form y’all. Have fun playing.
Bye~
Hansol-
If you want to know why I picked up guitar, read through.
Let me tell you about me. If you don't want to hear it, you can jump to INFO sections to start learning.
I've been playing violin for about 10 years. I loved it. That sound of strings somehow captured me when I first heard it. I still remember when my dad, who is classical music 'Fanatic,' took me to a string concert. There was a soloist. She played sound that made me to feel 'Something,' something that I could not explain. That sound only allowed me to feel it.
That experience, that sound resonated in me for awhile. So I asked my mother to buy me a violin. Since my parents loved classical music, they were thrilled by the fact that I wanted to learn violin. They bought me a violin 2/4size and got me a tutor. They were wishing to hear proud son playing violin for them to relax.
Wrong Idea! Only sound I could make was this absurd noise that can be only compared to ‘Scratching Noise.’ But I was still pleased with my music because I was making ‘Sound.’
I've been playing violin for about 10 years. I loved it. That sound of strings somehow captured me when I first heard it. I still remember when my dad, who is classical music 'Fanatic,' took me to a string concert. There was a soloist. She played sound that made me to feel 'Something,' something that I could not explain. That sound only allowed me to feel it.
That experience, that sound resonated in me for awhile. So I asked my mother to buy me a violin. Since my parents loved classical music, they were thrilled by the fact that I wanted to learn violin. They bought me a violin 2/4size and got me a tutor. They were wishing to hear proud son playing violin for them to relax.
Wrong Idea! Only sound I could make was this absurd noise that can be only compared to ‘Scratching Noise.’ But I was still pleased with my music because I was making ‘Sound.’
I Love Playing Music. I sure you love it, too.
As I got older I realized that I can only play collection of sounds, not ‘Music.’ I’ve only learned to play scales and music pieces. I never learned how to collect sounds and put them together to build music. Violin was too hard to do such thing. To me, it only shined when other instruments and symphony were supported. I began to lose my interest in violin. Although I still participated in Orchestra, I had lesser of eagerness to pursue violin.
During that time, I first encountered Guitar.
I was an exchange student from Korea. I stayed in U.S with a host family. They were great people. One of the best blessings in my life was to become a family with them. My host brother, Nick, played bass guitar, and he had friend John-Michael who could play ridiculous guitar. He came over to jam with Nick and I figured that’s what I was searching for.
Guitar. Oh, guitar.
Guitar was exactly what I needed. It has six strings so I can build chords and allows me to play with different feel or grove. Unlike violin which only can play two notes at the same time and has less chordal quality, guitar had everything. I could play note by note, could play chords with embellishing tones, and tap strings to make bits, and so on.
So, I said ‘screw violin,’ and picked up guitar.
My host dad, Pat, ran instrument business in Memphis. He saw that I was into guitar. From his kindness he bought me an acoustic guitar. I held on to it every day. I came back from school, and I played until dinner, and played until I sleep, and played bit more in my dreams.
I truly enjoyed playing guitar. It lets me to play sound and music in good harmony. But I don’t think I can make the sound that got me into music. I still lack pieces to make my music to sound in such ways to make me and listener to ‘Feel,’ rather than understand.
I created this website to post on my journey towards that sound. I’ll post useful information and my own revelations to keep record of my musical journey.
Thank you for visiting my site. I wish y’all can find good use of what I post.
I wish you best luck for your journey.
Once again, Thanks for visiting.
-Hans-
During that time, I first encountered Guitar.
I was an exchange student from Korea. I stayed in U.S with a host family. They were great people. One of the best blessings in my life was to become a family with them. My host brother, Nick, played bass guitar, and he had friend John-Michael who could play ridiculous guitar. He came over to jam with Nick and I figured that’s what I was searching for.
Guitar. Oh, guitar.
Guitar was exactly what I needed. It has six strings so I can build chords and allows me to play with different feel or grove. Unlike violin which only can play two notes at the same time and has less chordal quality, guitar had everything. I could play note by note, could play chords with embellishing tones, and tap strings to make bits, and so on.
So, I said ‘screw violin,’ and picked up guitar.
My host dad, Pat, ran instrument business in Memphis. He saw that I was into guitar. From his kindness he bought me an acoustic guitar. I held on to it every day. I came back from school, and I played until dinner, and played until I sleep, and played bit more in my dreams.
I truly enjoyed playing guitar. It lets me to play sound and music in good harmony. But I don’t think I can make the sound that got me into music. I still lack pieces to make my music to sound in such ways to make me and listener to ‘Feel,’ rather than understand.
I created this website to post on my journey towards that sound. I’ll post useful information and my own revelations to keep record of my musical journey.
Thank you for visiting my site. I wish y’all can find good use of what I post.
I wish you best luck for your journey.
Once again, Thanks for visiting.
-Hans-
