Don’t Get Distracted

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If you’ve ever joined a band, you know how weird that can be. If you get good at playing in a band, you can make your life a lot more fun than it would ever be otherwise. It doesn’t matter if you know all the guitar and bass parts and you can sing and you are a perfect song writer, if nobody knows about you then you are screwed That’s just he way it is. Life doesn’t want any more bands. There are far, far too many of them. You can’t keep track of them all anymore. No one can, except maybe Google.

Once you understand that, then you’ll realize that the reason o play guitar isn’t to become a famous band member. Nobody wants that, nobody likes that, nobody will let you do that anymore You’re just stuck with the life you’ve got and that’s how it will be for the rest of your life. You will have to play guitar for a different reason. You will have to play the parts of acoustic guitar with your friends not because you think that you will be famous, because you wont’ be, or that you will be rich, because you definitely won’t be, but because you want to use the guitar to expand your mind, to make what you think about bigger and to get things in your mind to calm down.

Getting distracted can really ruin your ability to play guitar. There are a lot of ways around that. One really good way around getting distracted when it comes to stuff like this is to simply leave your guitar where you are all the time. That will get rid of a lot of distractions by removing a bunch of steps between you and your destination. That is a very important thing to consider when you’ are working with getting your stuff together and making your guitar serve you instead of you serving it.

Where to Get the Best Advice on Learning Guitar

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Jess at a guitar lesson

If you’re one of the many thousands of people looking to start learning guitar, you’re no doubt assessing the different options and starting to scratch your head at the wide array of opportunities available to you.

When I first began learning guitar, I relied heavily on friends of mine who were at a more advanced level of playing. I was still at school at the time and used to spend break times in the music room with my pals going over scales, riffs and chord progressions from all our favourite songs.

This was a great way to get started because it was cheap and I was on a limited budget. Several of my friends were also classically trained musicians so they knew what they were talking about.

Not everyone has the luxury of musical friends to give their early playing career a boost in the right direction, though. So what would I have done if I had no-one to turn to for informal coaching?

Why Online Guitar Lessons are the Best Start

Well, I have to say that, knowing what I know now, I would probably have started off with some online guitar lessons. There are a good number of free online guitar lessons available which can get you off to a great start.

Just search around on Google and you’ll quickly see there are thousands of enthusiastic guitarists out there willing to share their knowledge with you.

If you follow along with some of these lessons, you’ll quickly get up to speed on the basics of how to hold your guitar, how to hold a pick, learn some basic chords and even basic scales. Before long you’ll be playing along to your favourite songs.

This is a great way to get your fingers stronger and allow you to hit the ground running when you get face to face lessons.

Why I recommend Face to Face Lessons

Online guitar lessons are a great way to learn certain techniques and theory etc, as is a good guitar textbook. However, you really can’t beat face to face lessons with a qualified guitar teacher.

The reason for this is that they will give you immediate feedback on how you’re doing. If your technique is not correct, they will tell you. If the intonation of your string bending is not spot on, they will also tell you.

But most of all, they can tailor the lesson to your individual requirements. This is why I think they are good value despite being much more expensive than online lessons.

So, for the best results, start with online lessons to get the hang of things and so that you get the best value out of your lessons with a tutor. Once you’re starting to get the hang of it, head along to your local guitar teacher for face to face lessons where you’ll get tuition that will make a big difference to your playing ability.

Try this website for a good beginner’s guide to learning the guitar – http://www.guitar-instructions.org/.