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- ↑ There will be a lot of reading material for you, especially in the first lessons. Unfortunately, I'm not sitting across from you and can't show you what one or the other means. Short, isolated comments during class take much longer to read when they are edited into a book. Advanced guitar players may forgive me if in some places I explain in detail topics that may seem trivial. Please remember that there were times when you were grateful for help. From the readers' reactions and discussions, I know that they have been infected by the fascination of the guitar, but due to a lack of time and perhaps also a lack of money, they cannot afford a teacher, or that there is no suitable teacher to be found in their area. In guitar forums you could see that even the simplest topics can be a problem for beginners. So I give what I hope is an easy-to-understand answer to all the common questions and problems that keep coming up with my students. I have summarized the comments that come during a lesson in a separate chapter. I hope you don't take it personally if I assume that you (like me in the beginning) make all the mistakes that one can make in the beginning. However, if you are a natural and make fewer or no mistakes, then consider the overly detailed explanations as a tip or help if you want to give guitar lessons to even a mere mortal. So don't be put off if it says a lot somewhere. That doesn't necessarily mean it's hard.
- ↑ This finger hook exercise is intended as a demonstration rather than strength training.
- ↑ Contrary to some false claims, it is not forbidden to play the 2nd string from the top of the D major chord . The note A (which is the second string from the top) is part of the D major chord. It may be that some pieces sound better if you have the bass note D (the third string from the top) as the lowest note and avoid the A string, but it is generally not wrong if the A (accidentally or intentionally) but sounds along. And with the simple song accompaniment in the key of D major, almost no listener notices that the note A is in the bass and not, as is usually the case with plucking patterns, the note D. In the Folkdiplom we get into a lot with the plucking patterns pay more attention to the bass tones and then you will automatically get a better feel for the bass tone. Piano players know a D major chord with an A in the bass as a reversal of the basic position. In the key of G major (which we learn from the 3rd lesson onwards), such a reversal doesn't bother us at all. In plucking patterns with an alternating bass, the bass note D is usually struck first. But the lower bass note A is often played as an alternating bass the second time. Avoiding A as the bass note in the D major chord is a completely unnecessary difficulty for complete beginners and ultimately a hindrance to practicing the touches.
- ↑ It would be more correct to draw a capital "D" in this chord diagram because it is a D major and not a D minor, and major chords are usually written in capital letters and only minor chords in lower case. Problem: This would mean that the fingers would no longer fit into the letter so nicely and the nice mnemonic would be ruined.
But for the beginning you can live with the small flaw. - ↑ The circles here in the circle of fifths each correspond to a note. A long-term goal will be to be able to play a major, a minor and a 7th chord for each note in the circle of fifths.
A medium-term goal (campfire and folk diploma) is to be able to play either a major chord or at least a major 7th chord for each note, as long as no barre chords are necessary. Since notes with accidentals almost always result in barre chords, these must be learned at a later point in time (from the rock diploma onwards). To make the medium-term goal easier to see, the "barre chords" have been crossed out for now.
There are only three minor chords that can be played over five or six strings without barre, and are therefore dealt with quickly.