First Beginner Guitar Lesson - Day 1 - Beginner Guitar Lesson | Guitar Tricks

Get Guitar Tricks Full Access - 2 weeks FREE: What should you learn on your first day of playing guitar? Here are the things that are worth learning in the first 10-15 minutes of picking up a guitar. 1. First you'll learn some terminology about the parts of the guitar so that we can communicate better. This includes: -The body -The neck -The headstock -The bridge/tailpiece -The tuning pegs -The frets and the fretwire, and their numbers -The strings and their names -The pickups (or sound hole if acoustic) -The volume, tone knobs, and pickup selector switch 2. Next you'll learn how to hold the guitar when sitting down. You should have three contact points between the guitar and your body. The first is the curve of the guitar body to sit on your thigh. The second is for the back of the guitar to rest against the front of your body, and the third is for your forearm to touch the front of the