Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

Overview

“In this lesson, you'll learn how to play your first note and chord and read chord charts. We'll start with simple chords like E minor and build from there.”

In this video lesson Michelle Joyce addresses the topic: Your First Note and Chords, which is part of the Domestika online course: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song. Join Michelle Joyce and learn to play guitar. Master the basics with structured lessons on chords, rhythms, and practice routines..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, you're gonna be learning how to play your first note, your first chord, and you're gonna learn how to read chord charts. So let's start by playing your first note. Just pick any string. Congratulations, you just played your first note. Now let's go ahead and place our finger somewhere randomly on the fretboard and press down on a string. That is also a note. Now the difference between the first note that I played and the second note that I played is that this one was open. And what that means is that I didn't use my fingers to press down on the string. So when I played the s...”

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Course summary for: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

• Level: Beginner
• 381 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Music & Audio

• Areas

  Music, Music Production