re: Teaching child guitar?

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I’ll tell you how I wish I learned.

Remove the hi and lo E, and the A.

The D, G and B strings can create major and minor triads as well as both inversions over 3 frets. I always thought the B string was a problem, until I realized that being tuned that way is what makes the guitar so versatile. They are also the strings that provide the frequency which the guitar usually sits in the mix.

So you are able to play most songs with just those three strings, while using a max of three fingers to do so. Play your favorite songs out loud and try to follow them.

If you can learn that, adding more strings is very intuitive in what role they will play. There won’t be this unnecessary need to play all six strings when you first start, which is still difficult to do after nearly 20 years of playing for me.

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