This guitar lesson for beginners will show how to tune a guitar, how to hold a guitar, how to fret notes, and how to read guitar tab. The objective of the Paluzzi Guitar video and book series is to help establish a foundation of guitar fundamentals by applying various playing techniques (rhythm, fingerstyle, and soloing) to various styles of music. The more playing styles and techniques a guitarist can learn, the more diverse and self-sufficient a guitarist will become. A self-sufficient guitarist can then teach themselves, communicate with other musicians, and even write their own music once a solid foundation of fundamentals is established.
The Creative Guitarist Method Series was written and designed by Kevin J. Paluzzi of Paluzzi Guitar Instruction in San Diego, CA. For more information on private guitar lessons and books from Paluzzi Guitar, go to:
There really isn’t any one particular playing style or technique required in order to classify someone as a guitarist. For example, Andres Segovia, the Beatles, and Carlos Santana are all considered legendary performing guitarists, but each has his own particular style or technique (fingerstyle, strumming, and soloing) for playing. Every guitarist will have their own personal preferences when it comes to what style of music they would initially like to learn. Some may have a more-specific goal (singer/songwriter, soloist, etc.), while others may prefer a more general or overall approach to learning various playing styles and techniques. This series of books and videos from Paluzzi Guitar are designed with a ‘pick and choose’ topic format (songwriting, soloing, etc.) so that once the Guitar Basics are completed, the guitarist can decide to focus on whatever topic he or she wishes study.
This Paluzzi Guitar lesson video is for absolute beginners who want to learn how to play guitar. For the beginner who has never played or even held a guitar before, this guitar lesson for beginners will explain getting started in order to begin learning to play some basic guitar songs.
Contrary to popular belief, learning how to read standard notation (piano music) isn’t necessary in order to become a great guitarist. Guitarists can learn to compose, perform, and communicate musical concepts without having to read or write a single note of standard notation. Think of any famous guitarist or group you may like and picture them on stage performing. The odds are they will not be sitting on chairs reading standard notation.
Those guitarists who focus more on the technical aspect of sight reading are more likely to become studio or classical musicians, while those who focus more on the creative aspects of playing are more likely to become songwriters and performers in their own right.
When a beginner is told that reading music isn’t required, the typical response is: ‘Oh... so you just go by ear then?’ There is much more to it than just learning by ear. In fact, most guitarists who are classically trained wish they knew how to compose, improvise, and learn ‘by ear’. The ability to sight read beyond just single-note melodies takes years of practice, with the result being an acquired technical skill, but no applicable knowledge of how to be creative with the guitar.
Most aspiring guitarists would rather learn be creative instead of becoming a studio or classical musician. This guitar lesson will take the very first initial steps that will enable beginners to start teaching themselves how to learn and play songs without having to rely on using standard notation.
Frets are the metal bars that lay across the fretboard. The fret numbers begin with the first fret, which is located closest to the headstock. The total number of frets on guitar will vary depending on the model, with a typical range being between 19-22 frets on most guitars.
Guitar Tablature, also known as guitar ‘TAB’, is a written form of music specifically designed for guitar players. Once the beginner student knows the ‘Three Sets of Numbers’, the next step will be to read guitar tabs to immediately begin learning some basic guitar songs.
Compared to having to learn how to read standard notation, which takes years to master, understanding how to read a guitar tab only takes minutes. All the beginner guitarist needs to know to start reading guitar tab are the ‘Three Sets of Numbers’.
For those guitarists whose primary focus is to sing and strum along to songs, understanding and using chord symbols will be more of a priority than using guitar tablature. Once a guitarist develops a decent chord vocabulary, reading the details of guitar tab will be unnecessary as chord symbols above lyrics will be all that is needed to play basic strum-along songs.
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