How to Play Acoustic Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Strums & Beats
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at GUITAR LESSONS: bit.ly Welcome to Acoustic Guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love. As you click from lesson to lesson, check out the other elements in the video player. The Jam tracks, Text, and PDF’s all support the lessons taught on video. TrueFire on Twitter – www.twitter.com TrueFire on Facebook – www.truefire.com
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October 18, 2011 - 12:40 pm
Man you are hot
October 18, 2011 - 12:43 pm
i already sing, play piano and violin but i wanna learn how to play the guitar but my families not that rich to let me learn another instrument so this really helps… plus if I could I would help to pay but i can’t cause I’m only 14 xD
October 18, 2011 - 1:17 pm
@Mrninjaclutch like strum with ur thumb? pretend its a pick lolz & @TheUnkownguy9999 why dont u just buy a new one? xD
October 18, 2011 - 1:27 pm
my hand herts… >.<
October 18, 2011 - 2:25 pm
Im starting to learn to play the guitar on wednesday, thats when im buying me guitar, im starting with a £90 guitar, instead of buying a shit one which ill have to replace when i get more advanced xxx
October 18, 2011 - 2:38 pm
@PilotGery1 so is mine ^_^
October 18, 2011 - 3:07 pm
when he said ‘lets listen to drumbeats’ i was like YEAHHH!!!! because i already play drums
October 18, 2011 - 3:13 pm
He knows how to stretch more than a whole yoga class.
October 18, 2011 - 3:56 pm
don’t laugh at disco! it was cool once.
October 18, 2011 - 4:36 pm
@TheUnknownguy9999 What happend it broke ?
October 18, 2011 - 5:02 pm
i wish i could get my 6th strig of my guitar back
October 18, 2011 - 5:32 pm
you can learn everything from youtube
October 18, 2011 - 6:13 pm
How do you do this without a pick
October 18, 2011 - 6:59 pm
@Zozage135 cover the strings not too tight
October 18, 2011 - 7:36 pm
isnt muting the strings kinda break or rip part of the strings o0f the guitar?
October 18, 2011 - 8:32 pm
ohmigod i can’t even mute it properly
October 18, 2011 - 8:37 pm
the first beat sounded like micheal jackson billie jean
October 18, 2011 - 8:45 pm
thank you so much *hugs
October 18, 2011 - 9:35 pm
when i watch your videos i don’t know what your doing half the time so i get confused id like to be able to see what your doing can you show what your doing id love to be able to play guitar some day please zoom in on your notes and stuff i love my guitar
October 18, 2011 - 10:27 pm
@ImAnEviilGirl2469 If it’s open strumming. Go to an online tuner. It’s just too high pitched,
October 18, 2011 - 11:12 pm
You got to love youtube for learning guitar. Such an Amazing resource. Im using it as the foundation for a great new beginner guitar course. Would love to have your feedback on it!
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October 18, 2011 - 11:41 pm
my guitar strumming sounds lyk a harp… :-/ is tht bad?
October 18, 2011 - 11:46 pm
this is soooooooooooooooo helpful:)
October 19, 2011 - 12:01 am
Love how he does the same “beat” for both songs xD
October 19, 2011 - 12:34 am
Thanks !!