Absolute Beginner Guitar Lesson 5 of 9

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These series of videos are aimed to someone who has never played electric guitar before and would like to try it for the first time.

Do not watch it out of order since the material covered is shown progressively.

By the end of it, you will learn how to play to main riff of:

.Smoke On The Water
.Satisfaction
.Pretty Woman
.Stairway To Heaven

Category:

Music

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• Guitar
• Lesson
• Smoke
• On
• The
• Water
• Satisfaction
• Stairway
• To
• Heaven
• Pretty
• Woman

[xxPr0totypexx]

Hey,im very new to guitar, and i just wanted to ask. When i play my guitar my fingers sort of slant and it is very hard to parrallel my fingers on the 6th string, also my wrist hurts....is this just a phase i have to grow threw? btw nice set of vids

[guitarvoicing]

yes. Most likely you will find your own technique as the years go by. However if it hurts too much means your are too tense. You need to relax otherwise you will injure yourself. The parallelism of the fingers comes from classical guitar techniques.

[Lovemyfans5]

so guitars doesnt have notes like eminor it just goes by string letter and fret number.

[guitarvoicing]

These are chords. Group of notes played together. Em or Eminor is one example of a chord.

[NJerseyDoll]

Great Video!! Really helps builds confidence for any absolute beginner like myself to play the guitar.

[luttman23]

Wow thanks for this, you're a brilliant teacher - most of these you-tubers are just too eager to show off. Cheers mate, I just bought a guitar and I can already play a riff! :D

[MysteryJimmy]

I have a question. How did you get use to alternative picking because i cant even though i've tried many times. Any suggestions or tips?

[danzalman]

one how do i make guitar sound like yours 2 can u write it down for me lol??

[TheEquestrianForever]

I got my guitar for my birthday, New Years..and I love it I have no clue how to play but once I get going (Im going to have lessons) I aen't gonna stop

[iwatevaho]

@savagekid94 hell yeah dude I also got an epiphone it's a les Paul special 2 and I agree even if you mess up you just keep trying I got the first riff Down pretty fast but the second one took a while

[savagekid94]

@benzilla04 LOL i got a Epiphone Gibson :D its difficult but every time i mess up i want to try again. i cant stop!!

[trucker132]

@benzilla04 i feel like im gonna get frustrated with this haha. I also got a guitar for Christmas. I got a jackson.

[benzilla04]

I can't actually believe how difficult this is.. Just playing these xDD Lol thumbs up if you got a guitar for christmas :P

[mitakadai1]

Awesome. Thanks! looked at some of the other beginner vids but found this series to be the best.

[FilipeVialpando]

OMG I AM MAKING MUSICCCCCCC ^^ TY SO VERY MUCH

[kavdeman]

@aro8910 as this guy said in earlier videos, your action may be too low. for learners its better to have it high, that means have the strings high up off the fret board which takes more pressure to push in but is easier. also your fingers will just adjust and get tougher over time :D

to change your action, look to the bridge near your pickups, you should have gotten a little alan key with you guitar for changing the adjustments on it (if electric) :D