Learn how to play guitar

It's alway nice to have a guitar thats comfortable playing. It makes it a lot easier to learn and makes more fun to learn to play. Before buying a guitar I recommend borrowing or renting one. That way if you lose interest you don't have a guitar thats just collecting dust or perhaps ends up on ebay for cheap. Plus it helps to get the feel of the guitar and understand its comfortability. Some people may think the guitar strings are what's making the guitar uncomfortable. It can but not always.

One of the easiest ways to learn how to play guitar is through guitar tabs. Guitar tablature (tab for short) is a system of notation that graphically represents strings and frets of the guitar fretboard.

e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G--------------------------------
D---------0-----------------------
A---------------4------------------
E---1-----------3--------------------

The graph above is what a guitar tab looks like. When reading guitar tabs you look at the left of the graph. Which tells us which string to pluck. So in this tab we are going to pluck the E string. Next we see a number. Which tells us which fret to place our finger on. So we are going to place our finger on the first fret. Often times in tabs there are zeros. Which they mean just to pluck that string open without placing any fingers on any frets. After the zero we see two numbers that over lap. Which that means you pluck both of those strings at the same time.

There are many of places to find guitar tabs. You can find them in guitar magazines, on dvds and you can even find websites that have them. One of my favorite websites to for guitar tabs is http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/