Good teaching materials are good teachers, especially guitars, which are very suitable for self-study. Of course, it is best to have a real teacher, but for most people, it is too expensive to hire a teacher, and some two do not have this condition. There are other reasons, so a good tutorial is particularly important. I recommend Liu Chuan's textbooks.

I especially want to say here, don't just choose the so-called specialized folk guitar textbooks on the market. Most of them are simple chord exercises and well-matched pop songs. They can't play any basic roles except cheating money.

Of course, what I am talking about here is only the playing skills of the guitar itself, and the arrangement of chords and the mastery of artistic conception depend entirely on your musical theory level.

How to learn guitar: Do you want to find a teacher?

If you can find a teacher with a higher level, that is of course the best. If you have friends who are pioneers in this field, that's fine. It is not required how high his level is, but the basic hand shape and finger handling methods must be correct. Because the basic action is the most critical when getting started, once this foundation is laid, we won't take detours in the future.

If you use excellent textbooks like this, you can learn by yourself.

In addition to the formal technical requirements, the most important thing in learning guitar is the atmosphere. If you can find a few like-minded friends to practice together, you can always maintain a passion and stick to it more easily. Recalling the way several people worked together in the dormitory bathroom in college, it was really passionate! It was also the period of the fastest progress.

How to learn guitar: arrange practice time reasonably.

For an amateur, scheduling is a headache and must be handled carefully. Unreasonable work and rest make you get twice the result with half the effort.

We know that the mastery of playing skills is essentially a process of controlling muscles through nerves according to the requirements of music performance, and gradually forming effective conditioned reflex through continuous practice, which needs long-term accumulation. If the practice time fails to meet the requirements, it is impossible to complete the transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change.

The practice time mentioned here includes two aspects, one is the duration of each practice, and the other is the frequency of practice, that is, the time between this exercise and the next exercise. The following arrangements are for your reference:

1, for beginners, because there are few things to practice, there is not much time required for each practice, usually one hour is enough; As for the frequency of practice, my experience is to practice every day. If I really don't have time, the minimum requirement is to practice every other day.

2. For the transition stage from primary to intermediate and advanced, because there are many skills to be practiced, each practice must be guaranteed for more than two hours, and the longer the time, the better. Of course, you can rest for 5 to 10 minutes according to the situation; You must practice every day. No matter how busy you are, you should try your best to find time to reach a new level in a period of time.

3. After reaching a certain level, there is no strict requirement on time. Generally, two or three times a week, more than half an hour each time is enough. But for classical guitar, if we want to break through a difficult skill, such as "finger-pointing", we should lengthen the practice time and increase the practice frequency in a local period of time. Please refer to 2.

In addition, it is best to fix the daily practice time in order to form a rule.

How to Learn Guitar IV: How to Protect Fingers

Fingers are the guitarist's most precious wealth. Take good care of your fingers and don't let them get hurt.

Key points:

1. If your fingertip is accidentally cut, you must go to the hospital to do regular anti-inflammatory work to ensure no further infection and absolutely no scars!

2. Beginners generally feel finger pain, especially the fingertips of their left hands and even blisters on their fingers. This is something that is hard to avoid. Generally speaking, finger pain will disappear in a week or so. To avoid blisters on your fingers, stop immediately every time you feel slight pain in your fingers and practice again the next day. However, blisters can speed up the adaptation of fingers to strings to a certain extent, so once blisters appear, don't be nervous, just stop practicing your fingers and wait until the blisters recede. Generally speaking, once you get blisters, you will never get up again, unless you are too lazy to practice for more than a few months, and then ...

3. Control the amount of finger exercise. Don't practice too hard, especially some advanced skills, too early, or your fingers will be easily injured. One criterion is: if the knuckles feel sore, stop practicing immediately and wait until they recover.