Day 1 - 28th Jun 2011

After many a changes to the day for the inception of my journey thru music - 28th, June 2011 was the lucky one. Hurrah!!! I get to go along with a friend to the class by walk. It was just the first day enthusiasm that kept me going by foot. 'Coz it all vanished from the very second class. So we started for the class by half past four coz it was supposedly a bad time from 3 till 4:30 IST. We met Sian and kicked off with our lessons on the basics of guitar.


Know your fingers
For beginners its better to sit on a arm less chair and learn. So the guitar would be resting on your lap and your right hand holding the pick and glided over the guitar.
The thumb is used to hold the back of the neck of your guitar and the rest four fingers to fret the guitar.

And now that we know how to hold the guitar this was the first exercise I was told to practice to get my fingers accustomed .

The numbers on the left indicate the strings. So the sixth string is the thickest string and the one closest to your face. And 1st string is the one closest to your lap. 

So start from playing open on the 6th string and then take your index finger from the fretting hand and press down the 1st fret in the 6th string  and strum your pick downwards. 

Now you use the finger marked 2 and press the 2nd fret and again strum the 6th string with the pick. Repeat this for the 3rd fret.

Now move on to the 5th string and play open, 1st, 2nd, 3rd frets. Repeat this for all the strings Once you are done with this, try playing this backwards - starting from the 1st string to the 6th in the exact reverse order (3rd fret to 1st fret)