Learn How to Play Guitar

  1. Guitar Anatomy Before you learned to drive a car, you were taught about all the knobs, buttons, and gears. Same goes with learning how to play guitar. Before you can start playing, you need to know where everything is and what everything does. From the bridge to the headstock, take some time to  get to know the guitar . Here,  this might help . It’s a visual anatomy of all the components for both acoustic and electric guitars. We recommend looking over something like this to fully understand how everything works. 2. How to Hold a Guitar This may seem elementary, but if you’ve never sat down with a guitar before, you might feel totally lost. Learning  how to hold a guitar properly  by positioning your left hand on the neck and right hand over the soundhole are essential to creating the best possible sound out of your guitar. Lefty? Not to worry, there are solutions for you! One fix is to flip the guitar strings around – completely reversing the strings – and hold the guitar with yo