Take private Electric guitar lessons in Christchurch

Is the Electric Guitar Played With a Pick?

When it comes to the electric guitar, it becomes a bit more complex. An electric guitar is usually played with a pick.

Styles of music such as Funk, Rock and Metal, Bluegrass and Rock&Roll, among many others, are primarily played with picks, but Jazz, Soul, Pop and Blues, although most of the time are played with a pick, they can also feature fingerpicking and sometimes that’s what makes them sound the way they do.

In the electric guitar repertoire, there is also a mix of picking with a pick and fingerpicking. It is called hybrid picking. It is found primarily in Jazz and maybe pop. Bluegrass and country may feature it as well.    

What’s First When Having Electric Guitar Lessons?

The first thing that any beginner guitarist should learn is exercises for rhythm and coordination. When learning guitar, you might encounter a lot of information about scales, chords, arpeggios, and so on.

But the first thing to understand and experience on the guitar is the fact that both right and left hands work in different ways, but are coordinated.

Think of the harp and how both hands do the same thing. Now think of the piano, both hands - although mirrored - do the same thing.

Now let’s take a look at the guitar: the right hand plays the strings, such as a harp. The left hand presses on the frets like a piano. Both hands are moving and executing the instrument in different ways, and it is this combination that makes the guitar sound.

So when beginning learning guitar, you could start by practising a simple chord on the left hand, something such as the E minor or E major and fixing your fingers to the frets. While pressing down, learn a simple strumming pattern on the right hand and strum the strings in a consistent fashion.

This combination of fixing the left hand, plus strumming, is the basis of coordination for the guitar. And while coordinating your hands to play the instrument, you are also practising playing in rhythm, which is a fundamental aspect of studying music, not just for the guitar but for any instrument, even voice.

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The Benefits of Having Electric Guitar Lessons

Practising with a guitar instructor might be the best alternative. The benefits of taking guitar lessons are several, but primarily, we can focus on two: discipline in your practice and lessons tailored to your needs.

Lessons are usually one hour per week, but getting better at a musical instrument will require brief but consistent practice from your part.

Then, students and teachers can review what was practised during the time between their lessons and address concerns and questions that might have arisen. And students under the tutelage of teachers whom they meet on a weekly basis may have a better chance of having a consistent routine, only due to the fact that they are engaged in a weekly session with an instructor.

It is thanks to these guitar lessons that progress and improvement may come at a consistent rate, and your experience practising the guitar may be a very pleasant one, as you can witness your abilities and skills expanding steadily.

Studying with a teacher is a personalised experience. The teacher will address the challenges and difficulties that are specific to your relationship with the instrument, or any other aspect of music, for that matter.

Practising with a teacher might be the best alternative as well because it is a human experience; learning with another person with whom you can communicate, ask questions, bring out your concerns or just someone to whom you can explain in great detail the challenges that you encounter as you learn music.

Not to mention the fact that you are practising with someone with whom you can have fun, laugh and enjoy each class.

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