Translation of Leçon de guitare sommaire from French to English
This is a guitar
I do not play classical guitar
I do not play Flamenco
I play basic guitar
I am a basic guitar teacher
I am not here to entertain you, but to instruct
Now, if some find it amusing to laugh, I can also entertain
I can instruct while "entertaining," for a maximum of thirteen and a half years
After that, I retire
Basic guitar lesson
A guitar is an instrument in the shape of a guitar
Which has six strings
If we split the guitar in two down the middle
(Which is not advisable)
We get two halves of a guitar
And 3 strings on one side, 3 strings on the other
These 3 top strings are therefore called the bass strings
In "classical" guitar!
In "basic" guitar we do not call them: we ignore them!
The big difficulty of basic guitar
Is to avoid touching these top strings
Which are called "the bass strings"
So let's not fiddle with the guitar with all our fingers
Let's use only the thumb
As its name suggests "thumb" it doesn't count
Thumb, it's for fun, "haha! Haha!"
Enough laughing, first lesson
The two chords
In basic guitar, we have two chords
It's a lot, it's not too much
To perform these two chords
We have a left hand with a thumb
(Which doesn't count, haha) and an index finger
With the index finger, we will press on the nearby strings
(That is, not too far)
Either on this string (which we will therefore call the "B" string)
Or on that string which we will therefore call the "E" string
And we will get the following two chords
"Bling" and "blang"
It's very easy, bling
It's easy but you must not touch the adjacent string
Bling and blang
As I showed earlier
Exercise for next time, on a clean notebook
Ten lines of "bling," ten lines of "blang"