Road Strings

-- Welcome --

First and foremost ...

Road string is proud of you for having the courage to take the dawning task of picking up the guitar

Are You Ready?

Equipments you need . . .

Road String recommends a guitarist have this basic guitar pack to start their journey.

  • 1, An Acoustic Guitar
  • 2, A Guitar Pick

An Acoustic Guitar (We recommend the acoustic for beginners)

As you know, the pick is important to create effective sound from guitar.

-- The Basics --

Now that you're setup with your tools, let's get started with the basics.

fig. Guitar Fretboard Diagram

"The Guitar Fretboard is a built upon the standard musical alphabet which follows as" A - A# - B - C - C# - D - D# - E - F - F# - G - G#

Guitar Frets (The lines that crosses the parellel lines vertically on the above diagram) have specific pitches that allows us to play all the notes on the musical alphabet

So "FRETS" arrange the musical alphabet notes on the strings of guitar, meaning on the "E" string, the first fret would play as the "F" note (Because F comes after E), then the arrangement will follow as

fig. Complete Guitar Fretboard Diagram

-- Strumming Open Strings --

Open Strings refer to strings which are played without placing your hand on any the frets

-- Basic (Cowboy) Chords --

The Chords you are about to learn unlocks 90% of music for you.

E Minor: Strum Down while fretting the indicated spots

E Major: Strum Down while fretting the indicated spots

A Major: Strum from the 5th string down while fretting the indicated spots

A Minor: Strum from the 5th string down while fretting the indicated spots

C Chord: Strum down while fretting the indicated spots

G Chord: Strum down while fretting the indicated spots

D Chord: Strum from the 4th string down while fretting the indicated spots

-- Roadstring's Pick Of Songs For You To Learn --

These songs are written and can be played with the common chords you learned above.

For What it's Worth

Buffalo Springfield

Wagon Wheel

Old Crow Medicine Show

Redemption Song

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Hurt

Johnny Cash

No Woman No Cry

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Something In The Orange

Zach Bryan

Thank You