Q. I have played flute for four years and piano for eight. I want to know how fast I could learn to play guitar.
A. Your biggest challenge is going to be to build up your callouses. Star out by playing about five minutes a stretch, two to three times a day, and build up your endurance over the space of about three months. When you get to the point where you can play for at least a half an hour, you should be well on your way to working on changing chords smoothly.
Remember, it isn't learning the chords that is the biggest challenge, it's learning to move from chord to chord smoothly. I start all of my students with the following chord:
E minor seven with a suspension
Emin7sus
All you do is strum across the strings with your right hand while you leave your left hand off the guitar completely! E / B / G is the E minor - D is the seventh, and A is the suspension. If the A was above the D, it would be the eleventh, but since it's below the D (the seventh) it's a suspension - even though there is a third in the chord!
Next you learn the E minor with a Dominant 7th
Emin7
Put your second or third finger on the second fret of the fifth string (A)
6/0 5/2 4/0 3/0 2/0 1/0
Next you learn the E minor
Emin
Put your second and third finger on the second frets of the fourth and fifth strings
6/0 5/2 4/2 3/0 2/0 1/0
Next you learn the E major chord
E
Put your second and third finger on the second frets of the fourth and fifth strings, and lay your third finger right down, where it already is, on top of the first fret of the third string!
6/0 5/2 4/2 3/1 2/0 1/0
Next, you learn the A minor chord
Put your second and third fingers down on the second frets of the FOURTH AND THIRD STRINGS! then put your first finger right down where it is, over the first fret of the second string (You just moved all of your fingers over by one string?)
6/0 5/0 4/2 3/2 2/1 1/0
move around back and forth between the chords until you can make the transition smoothly. Then learn some variations:
E7 - 6/0 5/2 4/0 3/1 2/0 1/0
Amin7 - 6/0 5/0 4/2 3/0 2/1 1/0
A7 - 6/0 5/0 4/2 3/0 2/2 1/0
You have probably noticed that I haven't gone anywhere near the C major chord yet. I try not to show that chord to my students for at least a month, unless they beat it out of me (and some do!)
C - (Actually C/E) 6/0 5/3 4/2 3/0 2/1 1/0 (That's a C major chord with the third (E) in the Bass)
C - (Actually C/G) 6/3 5/3 4/2 3/0 2/1 1/0 (That's a C major chord with the fifth (G) in the bass - which sounds fuller but is harder to play) < You generally play it first finger - 2/1 second finger - 4/2 fourth finger - 5/3 third finger - 6/3 >
I play it 1 / 2/ 3 / 4 though because it makes it easier for me to slide around!
Anyway, that should get you started. Let me know if you need more. Give me a shout and I will be glad to send you anything you need.
What does letters on top of a staff specifies in a music sheet?
Q. There as letters like Am, G, A7 etc. on top of staff in each measure. I know these are called chords but have no Idea how to play them There are also notes on staff which to play notes or chord. Please help I am just a beginner.
A. You're correct, they are chords. When you see them on the top of the staff, that usually a situation where the staff contains the melody and the chords are for the accompanying instrument (guitar, mandolin, banjo, etc). Since a chord is a mix of two or more notes, they're not intended for single-note instruments (trumpet, clarinet, etc).
If you're using a piano, you can finger the chords as long as you know the "recipe" -- the individual notes that make up the chord. Once you know the rules, you can figure out the recipe on your own -- for instance, a "Major" chord consists of three notes ... the "root" (a "C" Major chord has "C" as the root), a second note four half-steps above the root (for a "C" Major chord, the second note would be an "E"), and a third note seven half-steps above the root (for a "C" Major chord, the third note would be a "G"). How you arrange the notes (C-E-G ... or G-C-E, for instance) is the "voicing" of the chord. Sometimes altering voicing yields a different "feeling" for the chord.
There are loads of information sources on chords and chord theory. The site in the "source" below is a nice page of sample piano chords. The second site can help you find sites on chord theory.
How can you play guitar chords/tabs on piano?
Q. I'm trying to figure out how to play "Colder Weather" by zac brown band, on piano. However, I can only find guitar tabs/chords and if i try to play them on the piano it does not sound right at all! Does anyone know how to play piano songs from guitar music?
A. A C major chord is a C major chord. There's no reason a piano player can't look at this:
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/l/lovin_spoonful/daydream_crd.htm
And know what to do.
If you know your chords, then you can look at that and bang them out. C, A7, Dm7... not a big deal. If you don't know how to do that, that's something to learn.
Here's a couple of videos I made about chord construction. They're meant for guitarists, but the information is applicable to any instrument.
http://www.tinyurl.com/lucasmanchords1
http://www.tinyurl.com/lucasmanchords2
http://a.1asphost.com/LukeSniper/ccc.html
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