Why Do You Want To Learn Guitar?To start this article off, we would like to ask you a question… Why do you want to play guitar? This may seem an unusual question, but when you think about it, it’s one of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself as a guitarist. But have you ever asked yourself this? If you don’t know why you want to play guitar, you don’t know what you must practice to meet your targets. |
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Do you want to play a few chords that you can sing along to? You may want to learn a specific style of music. If that’s the case, you don’t need to be learning the other styles just yet. For example: If you want to learn to shred, you don’t need to be practicing blues chords or fingerstyle. This isn’t to say you can’t mix styles. The key issue here is focus. If you want to get good at something, you need to focus on it exclusively and not be sidetracked by other things. If you are learning a guitar tab, keep studying that guitar tab until it’s finished and you can play it all the way through. Don’t just learn the easy parts, and then skip to the next tab. Because that’s the long way round to your end result. It takes discipline to do this. But if you want to improve, you need to have some self discipline. It’s important to know why you are trying to learn guitar, before you start practicing – because if you’re practicing the wrong things, your just going to be wasting your time. Unless you enjoy being stuck in a rut with your playing, that is. How can you get what you want, if you don’t know what you want in the first place? So here’s something to focus on before you start practicing. Is what you’re practicing going to bring you closer to achieving your guitar playing goals? There really is endless information out there (especially on the internet) and you don’t want to fall into the trap of information overload. You can surf the net forever reading articles, tips, tricks, techniques, and lessons. You can go to your local bookstore and find endless amounts of guitar method books, but it’s all meaningless unless you know what you want to learn and where you want to go with it. So before you pick up your guitar, ask yourself why you want to do it. You may find that you are going the long way round to getting what you want… But by doing this, you will be able to find your own short-cuts to get where you want to go faster – which means it will feel like you’re progressing much faster. |