Free Guitar Lesson - 1

The first step to start learning guitar is to feel the guitar :-). Yes, One of the good way to start with the guitar class would be to draw the Guitar in your notebook by looking at a real guitar. This drawing would enable you to learn about the shape & parts of the guitar.

The drawing here was done by me directly using sketch pens without any pencil drawing :-)

The main hallow wooden frame that makes the main part of the guitar is termed as the 'body' of the guitar. The body in one way lookes like a human body with a little bit of tummy :-)

On the frontside of the body is the 'Bridge' that has the 6 strings anchored over it and 'Sound Hole' that is normally round in shape. It is over this Sound hole, you should pluck the strings so that the sound is clear.

Just like our body, the instrument has a 'neck' & 'headstock'. But, the guitar's neck is very long like an ostrich :-) The neck has a series of 'frets' that refer to the piece of metal piece itself on the neck and the space on the neck between two metal pieces in the neck. For a Right hander, the Left hand fingers will be placed between the frets while the Right hand fingers pluck the strings over the Sound hole/Rosette.

The headstock has the 'tuners' and 'nuts'/'pegs'.The 6 nuts/pegs act as the brain in its head that control all the 6 strings . Just as six senses are controlled by human brain, the 6 strings are controlled by the nuts/pegs in the guitar's headstock :-)

A guitar has 6 strings only. Even if the guitar is very very expensive, it has only 6 strings :-)

If you are a Right-hander, the left hand should be placed over the neck and the right hand should be used for plucking the strings over the sound hole on the body. The other way to look at holding the guitar is to have the thickest string towards your face and the thinnest string towards the floor.