How To Hold a Guitar

Series Summary

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar? Here's your chance. So, pick up a new hobby and learn to play the guitar today for free! The birth of the guitar is one that is not exact but guitar-like instruments have been used since ancient times. Through the years, people have learned to play this instrument with practice and determination. You too can learn to play the guitar if you are willing to put some work into it! Whether you are just beginning, or have never held a guitar before, this video series will lay out the basics of the guitar.

The collection of guitar lessons in this free video series will teach anyone what they need to know to learn the fundamental basics of playing the guitar. Watch as our expert explains the parts of the guitar and how to properly hold the instrument. Learn how to strum the guitar and how to sing and play at the same time. By the time you are finished watching our expert series, you will be playing scales and doing the blues guitar shuffle!

Video Transcript

"In this segment, we're going to talk about how to hold the guitar. Here's your guitar; your right hand, your left hand. Put the guitar over your right knee. If you're left handed, you might want to get a left handed guitar, in which case the whole thing would be backwards. But even some left handed people like to play a right handed guitar just so they can kind of like go to someone's house and you know, pick up any old guitar that's there and play the right handed. So it's your choice. But I got it, my right hand over here ready to strum. My left hand comes under the fret board right here. Just like that. So you see this, I'm not holding it like this at some crazy angle. This part of the guitar right here was made to fit right on your thigh just like that. So that's how you hold the guitar. And you want to be loose with your hands. You want to be loose with your hands. This wrist is going to come under as we're going to learn chords. It's going to come under so I'm not going to be like this. But I'm really going to let it come under like this. This is basically how you hold your guitar."