Beginner guitar lessons usually tell you to learn specific chords, which are called the major chords, then the minor chords and so on and so forth, but they never explain why these chords are important and why you should learn them first.

These beginner guitar lessons will emphasize the boring part of music: training, but it will also include the reasons behind exercises and specific chord progression. When it comes to guitar training, there are a few basic exercises which you should master.

The most famous is the 1-2-3-4 exercise of which I am certain you have heard before. But just to be sure I will illustrate the basics of this exercise. The notes you play are the first 4 frets of a string of your choosing, in the progression 1->2->3->4. The left hand fingers you use are all four fingers, one for each fret, index for 1, middle for 2 etc. You should do this exercise about 5-10 minutes a day without break. After you get the idea you can start to improvise and change it.

For beginner guitar lessons the basic chords are enough, there are 7 major chords and 7 minor chords, all within the first 4 frets. Once you know them you can start to understand them, if you move the chord 1 fret up then from say..E major it becomes F major. The trick is that you have to consider the free strings too, so you have to keep the index finger to illustrate the free strings. Once you have that down you begin to realize the similarities between chords and which chord is which.

Try different techniques and see what you can figure out. A small tip to end these beginner guitar lessons, when you are playing the guitar, try and never have the same session twice, at some point change a chord, an exercise or whatever; it will make you enjoy it a lot more.