How to Fall in Love With Your Guitar After You Buy Your Guitar Online

Before you read this article I want you to ask yourself a question. Do you love your guitar? Do you really love it? Do you have to have it by your side at all times or are you content with it sitting in the closet. I know you have just buy you guitar online and I know you think that you it's the best thing and you want to shred till the cows come home. But what's going to happen in a month from now are you going to feel the same? If you really want to become the best guitarist that you can be then you should continue reading because if you follow my advice you will never look at your guitar in the same way again.

First start by tuning to E-B-E-G#-B-E, or D-A-D-A-D-E, or any other tuning that, when strummed open, sounds sweet and clean and true. Strum open until you can't resist the urge to do something on the fretting side.

Start fretting with one finger, pushing it up and down and all over the place, chunking on all six strings if you want. Count 1 to 4, 1 to 3, 1 to 6, or just 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.....

Do this until you know where to put that one finger to reflect what you want to hear. Do it until, when you have that finger in a certain place, and in your mind you hear what comes next, you can put your finger where your mind suggests.

Start using two fingers, pushing them up and down and all over the place. Notice the patterns-some close together, some straddled, some split wide. Hear what works and what doesn't. Then, notice how anything can work, depending on many things. If you've been using a pick, put it down. Pinch your index finger between middle finger and thumb, and use the index to pluck. Do this until until your two fret fingers and your index plucking finger begin to form calluses.

Stop. Put the guitar away. Go to a museum or a baseball game. Paint a picture. Read poems. Study the films of Kevin Smith or Quentin Tarantino. Stay away from the guitar until your fledgling calluses vanish, or until you can't stand being away from it any longer. Then pick it up again.

One finger, two fingers. Then on to fretting with three. Rebuild the callus on your plucking index. Allow loose pluck-hand fingers to strike open strings whenever and wherever they want. Start humming as you play. Start tapping your foot as you play.

Sit down and play for an hour straight, without stopping. If you can go longer, go. Go until your hands feel mittened by heat, and you're not thinking about anything anymore, but maybe there are tears going down your face. Then, when you realize what has happened to you, it will all fall apart, and you'll have to put the guitar down, maybe for several days.

The rest of your life, you'll be trying to get back into that feeling that just fell apart.
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