This Should Be Everyone’s First Guitar Lesson

there are apps for tuning

My ring finger doesn't have the coordination for this

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Thanks!

What am I meant to do if I have big hands? Am I just doomed

I struggle with fretwork as my hands and fingers are so big.

i watched your video and learned how to do the A major, and then i went watch marty's beginner cords video but he did the A major without the pinky finger. Which one should i do, should i practice both of them?

i have chonkey fingers so it keeps sounding muted, any recommendations

21:32 E maj to A major

Maybe a basic question, but the closer I fret to the...fret, the higher the pitch gets because I'm sort of "stretching" the string over the fret. Am I just pressing too hard?

I started as a bass player and for me it’s “eat and drink grapes, b** eat”

I've got a Guitar Tuning app on my phone.

Thank You This is Terrific.

I'm >30 years old and the father of a toddler. I can count on one hand the number of times I've touched a guitar, let alone strummed one, but I bought a secondhand guitar less than a week ago after deciding I wanted to give it a go. This video is SO helpful! It took me a couple of days to even play the E chord decently; I kept muting at least one string every time I adjusted my fingers. It was frustrating. But I kept practicing and all of a sudden, sitting in the dining room in the middle of the night, something just clicked and now playing the E and A chords feels almost natural - and I was struggling with them less than 20 minutes ago! Your teaching style is great for absolute beginners and very encouraging.

It’s ok, Eddie wasn’t that great a musician.

Get an electronic tuner. Super inexpensive. Tune up in seconds.

Very interesting

thanks

thank you markiplier

Thank you sooo much

Great’. Thank you!

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15:40 does anybody know how to do this? It’s so hard.

I get confused with two different E strings

I recently retired and decided to follow one of my dreams and finally learn the guitar. I stumbled onto your site and watched this intro and decided to give the course a go. I just picked up a used Strat and am waiting for my mini amp to arrive and will then dive into it. Thank you for making this course available and doing so in a manner that is easy to understand, can be done on my schedule, and won't make me take out a second mortgage.

24:30

and where might i find lesson 2??

This was so good someone get me lesson 2 ASAP

this was one of the most helpful videos that I have seen. Thank you :)

I’m the 1.5 percent

sad to say im officially apart of that 1.5%, its been a good run

Learn to play Clapton chords, thumb over top as mentioned, no need to play chords with 6 notes, the piano never does 🙂

16:00 I have a problem whenever I try to play the E cord my finger touches the G string. I don’t have fat fingers ima fairly skinny guy any tips?

Where are your other lessons?

My finger on the D string while playing A MAJOr sounds dont vibrate it sounds of, i then changed the the finger placement and then it sounded right.... Im confused on how it should sound

At this point I don't care if my fingers hurt the sound is amazing it makes my heart melt

Thank you so much, really. I had no idea where to start with guitar, figured I'd go the same route as piano and just start learning songs. This conditioning is already making me feel so much better about playing guitar, I had no idea how I was supposed to make shapes with my fretting hand. The spider exercise and repetitive motions between E and A is really helpful

Tspmo

Mr Teach Markiplier you already taught me more than my guitar teacher did😭 (im also a piano player for like 7 years already)

Ok. Here we go!

Thank you markiplier!❤

If you want to play a song with only the two chords here, I recommend the verses from "Doesn't Remind Me" by Audioslave. It's got a really easy strumming pattern and I'm finding it easier to practice more if I'm sort of learning a song.

is tunafish cool?

I have no idea what I’m doing wrong with the part where you put all 4 fingers on the e string and literally can’t get past that, it goes completely mute and it buzzes

15:48 my hand is so small I can’t do that without the top of my palm touching the e string, if I manage to fix that then my pointer is touching the B string instead. I’m trying to tell myself I’m gonna figure it out but I havnt got passed that part in this day for 4 days now.

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