Guitar Lessons and Practice: The Most Critical Fact

You are learning guitar because you want to play on your guitar your favorite music, and you want to enjoy the feeling of drawing out of your guitar those enticing sounds.

And you want to learn to play your guitar in an optimum way, so you will awaken the admiration of everybody listening to you.

And you can achieve your goals, when you take into account a few and very important concepts, specially when you are self-teaching.

I will not tell you that they are easy. I will tell you that you can definitively do them, just putting will and work. Like everything deserved in life.

Let us go through them.

Attitude: It is the main thing you must have in mind. I am talking here about a strong and decided state of mind and body that puts you on the track of all the effort needed to meet your goals. Without hard work you will not get anything great in life. You won't even be a fair guitar player.

Listen in a different way: Until now most likely you listened just to enjoy it. From now on, you will listen to music to enjoy it and learn from it. You will listen trying to find out how the player is playing every specific part of the piece; what is the player intending to give; what difficulties is the player encountering, and how is he/she going through them; how would you like to have that part played.

Practice daily: Yes! Practice daily! Not less than two hours a day (one in the morning, and one in the afternoon, evening or night). I told you that it would be hard.

Practice efficiently: During the time segments you assigned to practicing, do just that.

Practice. Practice the lessons, exercises, scales, chords, pieces you must practice. Be clearly sincere with yourself. Do not fool yourself, thinking that you are doing your practice when you are only playing something you like to play and not what you must play.

Play with others: Whenever possible, specially when you have reached a playing knowledge and skills (and it is not required very much), play sometimes with other guitar players.

You will be surprised about how much you can learn.

Look for a teacher: Yes. Look for a teacher. If you are learning to play guitar on your own, there will be a time when you will need the guidance and advices of a guitar teacher.

There are many things than cannot be written and read. They must be shown and explained over the guitar itself. And I guarantee you that you will be amazed about what you will learn.

Remember. Attitude, change your listening habits, practice daily and efficiently, play with others whenever possible, and have a teacher to make your knowledge perfect.

There is no mystery in learning to play the guitar, but though rewarding it is a way of hard work.

Take it like that, and you will become a very good guitar player.

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