Musical Instrument Guide

Knowing how to play musical instrument is fun and enjoyable, especially when you are learning to play your favorite music songs. But, not everyone can play song just by hearing it; you will need to have a sheet music in order for you to be able to play that particular song.

And that brings out a question: are you willing to pay for the piano sheet music, guitar sheet music, saxophone sheet music or any other instrument sheet music?

If you are willing to pay, then it is quite easy as there are many online websites that are selling them through download. If you don’t want to pay, as in most people, then, it will be a bit harder as it will take a much longer time for you to find free sheet music.

Despite that, you can still find and download free piano and guitar sheet music online, though most will be classical sheet music as they mainly sit in the public domain. You may be able to find pop, jazz and some popular of contemporary piece, but, it will be very rare.

Here are a few ways that you can go about to find free piano and guitar sheet music.

Search For It

Hit the search engine like Google, Yahoo or MSN and try to search for very detailed terms for the sheet music you are looking for. Don’t simply go for the term “sheet music” as the scope is too wide and you will have a hard time searching. For example, if you are looking for Celine Dion sheet music, enter terms like
Celine Dion free sheet music
My Heart Will Go On free sheet music

Guitar Tablature

If you are skilled in improvisation, this method will be very useful regardless whether you are pianist or using other musical instruments. As guitar tablature gives you the lyrics and chords of a song and is available for almost any song, you can try to play the chords and get yourself familiar with the melody and rhythm. You will be able to get a good feel on how to play the song.

Forums

There are many musical forums available and you will meet many like minded people there. You can exchange opinions, seek advices and even get new sources for sheet music in the forum. People are generally friendly and helpful, so, check out the various forums.

Notation software

Notation software is a tool that helps to translate the Midi music files into sheet music and all you have to do is to look for the Midi files for your favorite song; and it is a lot easier to look for the Midi files than the sheet music on the web. Take note that there is paid and free version notation software, with paid version having more functionality. For the purpose of just getting the sheet music, the free version will be sufficient

Knowing how to play guitar hero song will not bring you the same level of satisfaction and accomplished feeling that one have when playing the real physical guitar. If you know how to play the guitar, you can play all different types of music, be it folk, country, rock, jazz, or any other types and you can play it anytime, anywhere.

As in any other musical instrument, learning how to play the guitar required a lot of practice, patience and perseverance. You need to be persistent and not give up at the first failure. Do not expect to learn how to play the guitar on your first try.

If you really want to learn to play the guitar well, you must make sure that you have a guitar and if you don’t, then go ahead and buy a guitar or there is no way you can do your own practice.

Learning how to play guitar required a strong coordination and communication between the muscles of your hand and brain. Before you start your practice, do some stretching and warming up so as to loosen the tension in your muscle. You must ensure that you are very relax, free of any tension, stiffness, discomfort, or pain because it can get worst when you start practicing.

For the first few times, your fingers might get sore as you do a lot of strumming and picking. That is natural, do not give up. After a few sessions of practice, you will get used to it and they will get better. It is also essential that when you first started playing the guitar, try to practice daily, but keep the session short.

Okay, now you are ready to start playing the guitar with the following steps.

1. Tune your guitar

It is important that the guitar is being tuned as it will affect the sound being product when you do strumming and picking. Doing this will also help you to get familiar with the string and fret combinations correspond with which notes.

2. Read guitar tabs

Guitar tablature or guitar tabs are a simple method of transcribing guitar music. This is a very popular method used to learn new playing techniques or to learn your favorite songs. The basic idea is to look at the guitar tab as if you look at your guitar; with each line corresponds to a string, and each number tells you which fret to hold down when plucking that string.

3. Hold the guitar

Sit on an armless chair and place the guitar in your lap with the back touching your chest. Assuming you are right-handed, rest the body of the guitar on your right leg and use your left hand to grip the neck of the guitar. Your right hand will strumming or picking individual strings. Vice versa for left-handed.

4. Play the guitar

It should be the most difficult of all especially you have no one to show you physically how to play the guitar. You can try strumming using either a guitar pick or your fingertips. Strumming consist of downward and upward direction, and no matter which way you play, you need to sweep across all of the strings with even pressure and steady speed.

Next, try to play a chord, meaning a group of notes. For a start, learn how to play a few key chord and practice till you can move comfortably between them without losing your rhythm. When you can play a few chords well, you can then pick guitar song to learn and play. Start from the easier songs, those with fewer chords and slowly moves on to the harder one.

Quite simple, isn’t it? As stated, the most difficult is the strumming and playing chords. Try to get someone to guide you along and you should be on your way to playing your favorite songs soon.

Have fun with guitar playing!