Basic guitar lessons

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Today we are going to impose on our good old uncle YouTube to give us some basic pointers on guitar playing. How to hold a guitar pick is a good start so here’s a video breaking up the simple job of holding a guitar pick into a series of small movements –

And while we are on the subject, I couldn’t resist including a picking tutorial from the great Eric Johnson –

How to hold the guitar is another whole area that needs intensive work if you are going to have years of guitar playing without doing yourself an injury. This is one of many videos on the subject:

It will always be valuable for you to go back to the basic principles behind the physics of guitar playing. So bookmark these videos and keep them for when you feel that you’ve gone stale in your practice.

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