How to Play Electric Guitar For Beginners

There are very few things in life as rewarding as learning to play a musical instrument, and there are even fewer things as beautiful as an electric guitar. However, learning to play the guitar takes a lot of patience and can be very frustrating at times. While it's very important that you stick to some sort of structure if you want to make good progress, it's just as important that you learn an easy song every now and then so you don't feel like you're going nowhere slowly.

Most how to play electric guitar for beginners articles offer a step-by-step guide, including steps such as "buy a guitar", "learn the chords" which quite frankly are pretty redundant if you ask me. The most valuable advice I could give someone learning to play the guitar is to be patient, find some type of course (there are tons online now, stick to the free versions until you're 100% sure you want to learn how to play the electric guitar) so you avoid making long-term mistakes, and learn a new song every now and then.

Learning to play the electric guitar is exactly the same as learning to play the acoustic/classical guitar with the exception that the steel strings hurt your fingers and the fact that it's electric. It's advisable that you begin learning on a nylon string guitar first, but it's up to you.

While learning how to play electric guitar for beginners there are a few picking songs to try that I learnt in my beginner stages, and I'll list them below for you to have a look at. When learning to play the guitar it's important that you follow a structured lesson plan, and there are plenty of online courses available, rather stick to the free versions though until you're sure about learning to play the guitar.

How to play electric guitar for beginners songs: (sorry I can't include the links, but you'll find the tabs at www.ultimate-guitar.com)

Blink 182 - Adam's Song
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Bloc Party - Biko
Blink 182 - What's my age again (intro)