Beginner’s Guitar Lessons in Nottingham
Just starting out? You’ve come to the right place.
Are you thinking about learning to play guitar? I’m highly experienced at teaching beginners. I don’t believe anyone should learn music they don’t want to learn. So I only teach popular music – not nursery rhymes! To start with, try the exercise below.
Got any questions about learning to play guitar from scratch? Give me a call on 07814 272649 or email me.
Lessons from home
Prefer to learn to play guitar at home?
I’m happy to provide guitar lessons at locations in and around Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. See the list below for areas I cover.
If your area isn’t listed below, but you’re looking for guitar lessons in Nottingham and surrounding areas, please give me a call now on 07814 272649.
A great guitar exercise for beginners:
A good place to start would be to place your fingers on the strings, just behind the frets and practise the finger per fret exercise in order to get your fingers strong and used to the guitar.
To do finger per fret, place your first finger on the seventh fret of the thick E and press down. Place your thumb directly behind the fret board on the rear of the neck and imagine your hand to be a clamp. The thumb pressing up and the first finger pressing down. Press just hard enough to sustain a note without the string buzzing. Now place your second finger on the eighth fret on the E string and repeat the above, then finally the third finger on fret nine and finger four on fret ten.
Points to note here are that you might not be able to stretch far enough to have all fingers pressed down at once when you reach fingers three and four. It is ok to lift up finger one and two at this stage. Also finger four might produce a buzzing sound to begin with. This is perfectly normal.
Don’t over-do this exercise. It’s a warm up only. When you have completed frets seven to ten move on to the A string.
The strings are as follows: E A D G B E
