The Super Basics!

So, I'm taking this class where we are graded to do what is being called a "personal quest" where we have to do something that isn't related to the class, but where we grow as people to benefit ourselves and hopefully others will gain from our endeavors as well. Hopefully. Anyways, I saw it as a perfect opportunity to learn to play the guitar. I have always wanted to learn and my boyfriend is AMAZING at it and I'd love to have something, like music, in common with him and he has already expressed his up-most joy in my attempt in learning this thing.

I had downloaded an app to help tune the guitar, which was super handy! I definitely recommend it! It worked fine (apparently) and took all of 1 minute to download.

The first tid-bit of knowledge I was taught about playing was a couple different chords. I currently have them up on a whiteboard in my room, but there are a bunch online that you can access that are a lot less messy, but it is really nice having them where I can see them everyday. I don't have them all up there, but just the basics!

This is what I have in my room right at this very moment:

There are also different versions online, like.....

http://mos.musicradar.com/images/Guitar%20Techniques/162/open-chords.jpg

This is obviously much prettier than what I have on my wall and with a little more info, but I like having something a little simpler so it's less overwhelming!

What I did initially was just try playing these chords, not worrying about my strumming, but just trying to get it to sound like its supposed to. Its also really helpful to play each string individually when doing this, at least a couple times so you can pick up if one of your fingers isn;'t holding down the string enough or whatnot.

Happy strumming!