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Hey all, I'm Shawn, 38 & fresh to the guitar. Yesterday was my very first day at getting stuck in (probably spent a little too long at it - finger tips feel like I burned them on a stove!). I spent my first hour awkwardly & awfully strumming between D & A chords, but hey, I'm excited for the months ahead. I intend to follow the tried, tested & trusted Justin Guitar lessons to see if I can get myself going. Looking back on this first video I can already see the importance of reallyyyyyy slowing every thing right down & it reinforces the need to let things naturally develop in its own time. Oh, and I need to get to grips with holding the pick properly. After just one hour I can highly recommend recording yourself practicing if you don't already! I noticed there's not a great deal of content around showcasing absolute beginners & it's clear to see why - seasoned amateurs & pros tend to sound a lot better! So, I decided to start this channel to not only periodically document my own progress from the very first day, but because I thought it may also be useful & intriguing for other beginners to watch both now & further down the line. A sort of way to truly realise that we're not alone all frustrated & wondering if things could ever possibly get better. Well, I'm going to find out if they do, anyway! If you fancy offering motivation, encouragement, tips, a chat etc. do feel free to follow along! https://youtu.be/zT9ij0RV4M4

That's excellent, and well filmed, for this purpose, so well done. There is, however, a problem with the tuning. The low 'E' (the sixth string...) is OK, but all the other strings are tuned too low. It may be easy to fix, if you do the following... Play the 6th string (the low 'E'...) at the fifth fret. This note will be 'A', and the 5th string should be tuned to that note. Tune up the 5th string, then, until the 6th string/5th fret and the 5th string 'open' sound the same note ('A'...). Once that is done, play the 5th string at the 5th fret (the note is 'D'...), and tune up the 4th string, open, until it is that same note. Once that's done, you can check you're on track by playing the 6th string 'open', followed by the 4th string, 2nd fret ('E', an octave higher in pitch...). Assuming it's all good, we continue by playing the 4th string at the 5th fret ('G'...), and tune up the 3rd string to that same pitch. Once again, we can check that the 'open' 5th string and the 3rd string, 2nd fret sound the same note ('A'...) an octave apart. Now for the tricky one (not really, but it changes slightly here...). Play the 3rd string at the 4th fret ('B'...) and tune up the second string to match that note. Now for the last one : play the 2nd string, 5th fret ('E'...) and tune up the 1st string to that same pitch (the high 'E'...). If you now play the 6th string 'open', followed by the 4th string, 2nd fret, then the 1st string 'open', you should hear a low 'E', and 'E' an octave higher, then the high 'E'. Read this through again carefully, and try it out; reply here once it's done, or if you have questions or issues. From there, once successful, we can start looking to chord shapes and how to finger them. Firstly, though, the guitar must be tuned as described above. Over to you, and well done, again. Douglas

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It sounds like the E and A strings are tuned to the same note. Do you have a tuner?

For learning chord fingering we only want clean tones..!

There's nothing like a lesson or tip from somebody actually physically there with you.

My son-in-law,who is an accomplished guitarist came to stay with us recently and he couldn't resist picking my the electric guitar up as soon as he saw it. He said it was beautifully set up and suggested it was probably technique that was at issue and made a few suggestions for improvements for both my left and right hands, and even after a few minutes of playing after following his advice I was much happier with the sound from the acoustic and the electric. I still need plenty of practice but at least it is another step and I suddenly feel like I am improving.