How to Develop Your Guitar Sound: A Guide For Beginners

When it comes to playing guitar, one of the most important things to learn is how to develop your guitar sound.  A guide for beginners. This depends highly on what style of music you like.

 

What draws you to want to play that kind of music? It doesn’t matter whether you like strumming rhythm or playing solos.  All these things can contribute to you discovering how to develop your sound.

 

Learning Tips For Playing Rhythm Guitar

If you’re drawn to the rhythm aspect of playing guitar, you want to learn how to form chords.  Learn how to pick and strum them.  You want to learn how to develop good timing and create a practice schedule designed to accomplish this.

Start by learning a few basic beginner chord shapes like G C & D.  These chords are played within the first few frets and once learned can aid you in learning many cool songs.

 

Learn to strum these chords up and down with the picking hand.  This will allow you to establish rhythm and timing.

 

Third, you learn to move between chords in certain time intervals to create rhythm.  This can take some time to accomplish.  But, if you give it a try you will be amazed at how bits and pieces of songs you recognize start coming out of your guitar. And that’s when the magic starts to happen.

 

Learning Tips For Playing Lead Guitar

If you’re drawn to the lead guitar aspect of playing, then you want to focus on learning scales.  You also want to work on practicing finger exercises to develop strength.

 

Later, more advanced techniques will allow you to master speed and agility.  Timing is also very crucial in this aspect of playing and designing a practice schedule for this type of playing is needed as well.

 

One thing about playing lead guitar you want to remember is that it takes much more discipline to accomplish than just playing rhythm. Like playing rhythm, there are certain things you want to learn.

 

First, some basic scale forms.  Start with the major scale (Do Ra Me…) second, move to the minor pentatonic scale patterns and the infamous blues scale.  Third, work on finger exercises to develop dexterity, speed, and timing.

 

Learning Tips For Setting Goals

Setting Goals is another aspect of guitar playing that is very important to keep you on track.  This allows you to choose what it is you want to accomplish.  Check to see how you are doing at accomplishing it and what more you need to do to accomplish it.

 

This is where most people who try to learn guitar on their own, fail.  They have no destination.  No top of the mountain they’re trying to reach.  They just grab the guitar and start learning.  They don’t focus on what needs to be practiced daily.

At first, they start all enthusiastic but then after a while, they lose steam and sometimes just give up.  Which is never a good thing.  So don’t do this.  Get focused, and decide where it is you want to go with your playing.  Make a plan to get there, get to work, stick with, it, and eventually feel great when you reach it.

Insights To Your Favorite Players

If there is someone in particular who inspires you,  then look into his style of playing.  Think about what kind of chords they play.  Look at what type of scales they play.  Find out what kind of rhythm patterns.

 

Determine what kind of equipment.  An answer to all these questions will contribute to you learning how to develop your sound.  You could even light your guitar on fire.  But I wouldn’t recommend that until you start making bank as a guitar singing Rockstar!!

 

Every artist has a uniqueness that they bring to the table.  Because they took the time to develop the sound they wanted.  Most even went a step further by developing their unique image as well.

The band Kiss, are master in this area when it comes to the artistic development of sound.  Also, image, and stage persona you can’t get more unique than KISS.

 

Study and put into practice the development of your unique brand of guitar playing.  Like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc.  You will have to do the same.

 

Get serious about playing guitar

Get serious about your guitar playing.  What is it you want to accomplish?  Who most inspires you to play and start working at developing your sound?

 

Write these things down and look at them.  Write out a plan of steps needed for their accomplishment.  Set forth at once to put this plan of yours into action!  One little step at a time is all that is needed and before you know it, you will start seeing some progress.

 

Stay excited and stay committed.  When it’s all said and done you will learn how to develop your sound and become an inspiration to others.

 

As these people mentioned above have done for millions around the world.  Even if your inspiration is to family and friends, you will find that the guitar can be a guiding light to a much brighter future.

 

Dive deeper

If you are serious about getting started playing guitar, I recommend you look into taking some lessons.  This can be done in multiple ways.  You can seek out a private instructor.  You can find group lessons at your local community center.  Or, you can choose to learn online from YouTube.

 

In addition to that, you can also learn from online courses or method books.  When I started way back when we didn’t have the internet or YouTube, so I had to learn from what was available.  Books and magazines.

 

This turned out to be a blessing because method books were written in a step-by-step format.  Lessons were presented in a chronological order that allowed me to progress quickly.

 

Naturally, I bought more books and progressed with my learning.  Now all these years later, I have authored and self-published my method books.   These can be found in multiple places on the internet.

 

The best place to get them though, would be in my Etsy Shop bookstore.  Here you wi find all the books I have authored and self-published.  And, for someone just getting started, I recommend the book,

 

Learn Guitar: Simple Method For Beginners

Learn Guitar: Simple Method For Beginners is a great starter guide.  Presented in a step-by-step method that can easily be learned by anyone.  Even if you have no previous musical training.  You will learn such things as:

 

• How to hold the guitar

• How to tune the guitar

• How to choose the right amp

• How to use a guitar pick

• What chords to earn first

• How to strum chords

• How to create rhythm

• How to read sheet music

• And, much, much more.

 

If you are serious about playing guitar and think that this option might work for you, I recommend you take a look at my Etsy Shop Bookstore.  In addition to that, if you decide to purchase this book or any others, you will receive a 25% discount and a “personally signed to you” author copy.

 

Lesson conclusion

No matter what option you choose to go with, the main thing is to just get started.  Get a guitar, get an amp, and get on YouTube, seek out an instructor, get a book, or purchase an online course.  With so many options for learning nowadays, there is no reason to not do it.

Make it your resolution that this is the time to do it.  Don’t worry that you might have tried before.  Or that you’ve always wanted to but just haven’t.  You can do it.  And I am here to help you every step of the way.

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to read and as always, if you need any assistance feel free to contact me.

Best of luck, and until our next lesson, take care.

Sincerely, Dwayne