Handy widget for beginner guitarists
Check out the Space Trainer, a low-cost, blissfully simple tuition aid for beginner guitarists.
Designed by Essex guitar teacher Kelvin Pratt, it’s a clip-on frame that helps new starters get their fretting hand in the right position from the off for those all important first-position chords. It forces you to approach the fingerboard from the front to help let notes sound clearly. “Necessity was the mother of invention,” says Kelvin, “because I was always holding people’s fingers up when they go flat on the fingerboard. I tried putting a pencil on there to help, but it kept falling out, so I came up with these.”
Space Trainer is designed for the first three months of learning first-position chords, though you can’t use it for barre chords or anything more involved.
We think it’s a good idea, and well worth a punt for pure beginners at £5.
Tags: beginner, Guitars, Learn to play
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I bought one of these from the web site and it works i have ben able to play those beginners chords