Kid Guitars

When they are just starting out, many kids have a hard time focusing on the actions of two hands at once. This ability to multitask effectively will come with practice; in the beginning, it’s best to simply remind kids not to stop strumming. It’s perfectly understandable that most of a child’s attention will be focused on fingering the fretboard. After all, the right hand just has to strum along, right?

In fact, the role of the right hand is slightly more complicated than that and certainly more important than it would seem. In addition to strumming, the right hand must operate as a sort of metronome, keeping time with each upward and downward strum of the strings. If this motion stops for any length of time during the course of a chord change, all timing with kids electric guitars will be thrown out of whack.