De Guzman, Christian D.

BSE-English 2-1

How to play a guitar...

Do you know how to play a guitar? Are you amazed by your classmates who know how to play it? And does it ever come to mind that you would want to be one of them? Well, now is the time for you to learn how to be like them, or at least, a little bit like them.

We all have that side of us whom we know, is eager to learn how to play a guitar, and how it feels like to amaze his\her classmates with the use of it. Just a small tip before we truly begin, you should have someone who would teach you, this is based from my own experience and it truly helped me in learning how to play a guitar. Having someone to teach you can help you learn how to play a guitar a lot more easier, and they share their experiences to you, how they learned it, how they began, and other things which could inspire you to be more eager. That will be that, now back to the topic.

The first things you should learn when trying to play a guitar are the basic chords, how each of them look like and how they could be formed. It is easy to know how the chords look, the hard part is to apply them on a guitar, this is because you would need to move from one chord to another, which can be quite confusing. Doing this requires you to remember how each chord is formed, and how you would be moving from one to another. This was something I hard a hard time learning at first, but after a long time of practicing, I did it.

The second thing you should learn is how to strum the strings. Strumming can be both easy and difficult, this is because following the specific strumming pattern of a song is not really needed. You can strum it how ever way you like, as long as it is at beat and following the rhythm of the song. Since you are just starting to learn how to play a guitar, a simple strumming pattern would do. The complex strumming patterns can wait, just take your time in learning the simple ones first. Learning this was very fun for me, because it allowed me to be creative in the way I would be strumming throughout a song.

Those two thing are pretty much all I could share to help you. The rest is up to you, if you really are eager to learn,the difficulty wouldn't matter. Just one small request before I go, really do try to learn how to play a guitar. Because it is something you would really enjoy playing while bonding with your friends and family. For me, I consider it as something better than just being in a room with your friends who are having their own world's even though they are just a few inches away. And if you're in the middle of nowhere and without a source of electricity, a guitar would really be useful.