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Notes on tuning using a web based tuner: http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/
I’d suggest you tune from right (highest note) to left
There are several options on this tuner:
- It gives either a guitar sound or a tone (I prefer the guitar sound)
- There is a delay which can be varied but hitting the space bar repeats the note.
- The “auto advance” is a useful check of each string once tuning has been completed.
At least you can get experience in deciding whether their strings are higher or lower than the computer.
I would suggest adult supervision to begin with. It’s important you don’t overtighten strings as they will break.
A tip is to deliberately slacken the string a it and then tighten to the correct pitch.
Click to download
MBC simple guitar chords (pdf file)
Photos of chord shapes (pdf file)
Guitar Materials
We believe its important that people feel they are able to achieve early success so our method is to teach tuning and a few simple chords with appropriate tunes.
This page contains links enabling downloads of materials including songs
Click to download MBC “My Guitar Book”
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Guitar for Beginners |
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Chords (new) |
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1 |
Parts of guitar |
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Tuning |
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3 |
Basic Chords |
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4 |
Drunken Sailor/ MBC Guitarists Song |
Am, G / C, G7 |
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5 |
Eleanor Rigby |
Em C |
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6 |
Kumbaya/ Happy Birthday |
C G D |
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7 |
Twist & Shout |
C G D |
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8 |
Wimoweh |
C G D |
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9 |
Stand By Me / Puff the Magic Dragon |
C G D Am Em |
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10 |
Love is All Around |
G Am C D |
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