Learn how to hold a guitar the right way. Holding a guitar in the proper manner is the first step in your beginner guitar lessons. Here’s how you do it correctly.
If you want to learn how to play a guitar, the first thing you should know is to hold it right. How you hold the guitar is very important if you want to play it right.
Holding the Guitar
The first and the most important step in learning to play the guitar is to learn how to hold the guitar. If you don’t hold the guitar correctly, it is most likely that either you will be uncomfortable and drop the guitar else what you play may not sound good.
How to Hold the Guitar while Standing
For those of you who prefer to stand and play the guitar, you need to stand straight and pick the guitar up and hold it in a way that the back of the guitar touches your stomach or chest area. The neck of the guitar should be parallel to the floor and the thickest string should be closest to your face and the thinnest should be close to the floor.
Here are some key points for you to remember:
How to Hold the Guitar while Sitting :
For those who prefer sitting while playing the guitar, it should be held in such a way that the guitar rests on at least one of your legs. The back of the guitar should touch your chest/stomach region and your left arm (if you are right handed) should hold the neck of the guitar and the right hand can be rested on the guitar to play the strings. If you are right-handed, the guitar will rest on your right leg and vice versa if you are left-handed.
Some pointers for holding a guitar while you are sitting:
Now, let us look at how to position your hand and hold the guitar:
Summary
The first step in learning a guitar is to learn how to hold it the right way. You can hold it either standing up or sitting on a chair, whatever is comfortable. However, it is important to remember that either ways, the back of the guitar should be touching your stomach or chest area and your back should be kept straight without slouching. It is important that you learn the right way of holding the guitar very early in your lessons so that you don’t continue practicing wrong guitar practices which makes guitar learning less enjoyable and much harder.
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