Beginners guitar lesson #1: How to hold the guitar, pick strings and fret your first note! Chris Bird. ... you'll have the guitar's body perched on your right leg with the neck in your left hand.

In bar 1, start by playing a 3rd fret note on the first string followed by a 5th fret note. The curved line joining the notes indicates that you should use a hammer-on. If there was no curved line you ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring ...