Greer - Learn How to Play Guitar in 30 Days: Guitar Chords and Guitar Lessons for Beginners

Learn how to play guitar in 30 days!

Guitar chords and guitar lessons for beginners

Morgan Greer

Table Of Contents

Introduction

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The guitar is probably the most popular musical instrument in the world. Almost any style or genre of music can be played on it. It's portable, practical and of course, it is cool! You can learn how to play guitar in 30 days with this easy to follow eBook.

After youre through with this eBook, you should be able to be able to perform like a pro in front of your family and friends soon enough!

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Chapter 1 Learn how to play guitar in 30 days!

Can you really learn how to play the guitar in 30 days and play like a pro?

In order to become a good guitar player, you need to have a program. It doesnt matter how long you play the guitar everyday as long as you set aside at least 30 minutes of focused practice to get everything right.

If you follow this plan, you should be able to start playing like a pro after a month. Give at least 30 minutes of focused practice for each day listed below and you should be able to perform not only for yourself but for your family and friends as well!

Use this chapter as a guide as you go through the chapters. Mark each day and log in just how much progress youve achieved on the guitar.

The 30 day guitar plan for beginners

Day 1 Introduction to your guitar. Get to know the parts of your guitar. Find five songs you want to end up playing by heart and with enough expertise by the end of 30 days. Refer to Chapter 2 for the parts of your guitar.

Day 2 Introduction to chords. Based on the diagram in Chapter 3, go through each Major chord pattern at least 5 times, positioning your fingers on the right strings and frets and applying pressure to it. There is no need to strum yet. You only need to get your fingers acquainted to the positioning of your fingers on the fretboard. Make sure you stretch your fingers well and good before attempting to perform any of the chords. Refer to chapter 3 to understand Major chords.

Day 3 Play the A Major and the E Major chords at least 10 times. Switch between A and E to get your fingers acquainted to changes. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes. By now you know the drill, refer to chapter 4. The next few days should have you flipping back and forth after finishing a chapter.

Day 4 Play the C Major, D Major and G Major chords at least 10 times. Switch between C, D and G to get your fingers acquainted to the odd positions. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes.

Day 5 Play the B Major and F Major chords at least 10 times. Switch between B and F Major to get your fingers used to applying pressure with your index finger on all strings to get the right sound. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes.

Day 6 Play the A Major, C Major, D Major, E Major and G Major chords respectively at least 10 times. Switch between A, C, D, E and G Major to loosen up your fingers. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes.

Day 7 Play the A Major, B Major, E Major and F Major chords at least 10 times. Switch between A, B, E and F Major to get your fingers used to applying pressure with your index finger on all strings to get the right sound and releasing the index finger for the basic chords. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes.

Day 8 Play the C Major, D Major, G Major, B Major and F Major chords respectively at least 10 times to get your hands used to splaying your fingers and applying pressure for the barre chords. Do it slowly at first and pick up speed every 5 minutes.

Day 9 Play all 7 Major chords from A Major, E Major, C Major, D Major, G Major, B Major and F Major respectively at least 10 times. You can also do the correct progression by doing A, B, C, D, E, F and G Major in quick succession to get your hands used to the finger positions.

Day 10 Play the B minor and F minor chord at least 10 times. Make sure you speed up your chord changes every 3 minutes.

Day 11 Play the C minor and G minor chords at least 10 times. Speed up chord changes every 3 minutes.

Day 12 Play the A minor, E minor and D minor chords at least 10 times. Speed up chord changes every 3 minutes.

Day 13 Play the B minor, F minor, C minor and G minor chords at least 10 times each and speed up chord changes every 3 minutes.

Day 14 Play the B minor, F minor, A minor, D minor and E minor chords at least 10 times while speeding up chord changes every 3 minutes.

Day 15 Play all the minor chords and make sure to speed up changes every 3 minutes.

Day 16 Play all of the Major and minor chords in quick succession one after the other and speed up the changes after each run through.

Day 17 Play the flat and the sharp for each of the 7 Major chords in quick succession. Remember that when you move up one fret, youre basically doing a sharp and if you move down one fret, thats a flat. Remember that there are no flats or sharps between B and C as well as E and F!

Day 18 Play the flat and sharp for each of the 7 Minor chords in quick succession. Remember to speed up chord transition and finger positioning every time you complete one run.

Day 19 Play all the minor chords as well as the flats and sharps between them.

Day 20 Play all the Major chords as well the flats and sharps in between them in quick succession.

Day 21 Play all of the major and minor chords as well as the flats and sharps in between them. Getting through this exercise should prepare you for the next task which is to play an actual song.

Day 22 By now you mustve gotten tired of practicing the chords. This time your practice will involve an actual song. One of the easiest chord progressions on guitar is the G D Em C chord progression. Many popular songs use this and it is quite easy to play.

Songs to learn:

Green Day When I Come Around

Journey Dont Stop Believing

Lighthouse Family High

Adele Someone Like You

Richard Marx Right Here Waiting

Day 23 Do a run through for all the chords youve learned from Day 1. This should warm your hands up enough to add some more songs to your repertoire.

Songs to learn:

Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne

Five for Fighting Superman

Beyonce Halo

Kelly Clarkson Stronger

Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight

Day 24 As with the previous day, do a run through of all the chords from day 1 and learn these songs:

Maroon 5 Payphone

Jason Mraz Im Yours

Coldplay Viva La Vida

Train Soul Sista

One Republic Good Life

Day 25 Do a run through of all 15 songs learned from the previous days. You should be able to notice that the predominant chord pattern used is G D Em C. This will form part of your initial repertoire and should be good for about an hour and fifteen minutes of music.

Day 26 Add a few more simple songs with a different chord progression than that of the first fifteen songs in the list.

Songs to learn:

4 Non Blondes Whats Up? (A Bm D A)

Ronan Keating When You Say Nothing At All (D A G A)

Hoobastank The Reason (E C#m B A)

The Script The Man Who Cant Be Moved (G Em Am C)

Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit (E A G C)

Day 27 Time to learn more complicated songs with more chord progressions involved. For the entire chord progressions, you will need to go online to search and download the entire tablature.

Songs to learn:

Eagles Hotel California

The Calling Wherever You Will Go

Christina Perri Jar Of Hearts

Edwin McCain Ill Be

Dishwalla Counting Blue Cars

Day 28 Run through all of the songs youve learned particularly the first 15 songs. Add 3 songs of your choosing to the list. You can search for all the chords and lyrics through the internet if you need help.