Beginners Guitar - 5 Strategies

By: Richard Reynolds

Beginners Guitar Tip Number 1 - Don't just play the guitar.
Practice.

There is a great discrepancy between playing the guitar and
practicing the guitar. Usually when we play, we are simply
entertaining ourselves and in order to do that, most of us like
to play the things which we can play fairly well. Practicing
guitar involves performing things that we are not able to
accomplish and is normally quite demoralizing, which is the
reason why most student guitar players do not like to practice.
However, it is only by practicing the things that we are not
able to perform on guitar that we will improve.

Beginners Guitar Tip Number 2 - Pay Attention.

Playing guitar accurately takes a great deal of attention. After
you have played for some time, it will get more natural but you
will usually find that when working on a new technique or
complicated passage that it will necessitate concentrated
attention in order to master it. The more attention you focus on
a problem the more rapidly you will solve it.

Beginners Guitar Tip Number 3 - Stay relaxed.

If you struggle while you work on your music, then that stress
will continue to haunt you far into the future. The muscles have
a extremely good memory and they will remember all the stress
that you produced while mastering that new tune. If you would
like to play guitar easily, then you have to apply much less
effort right from the beginning.

Beginners Guitar Tip Number 4 - Play slowly.

You will need to work on your songs or pieces at a speed where
you can play them precisely and in a relaxed manner. Nearly all
of us practice way too rapidly. This leads to stress, which
tenses our muscles. We then learn our new tune with that stress
in our hands and fingers. It is much less difficult to master a
new tune by starting off relaxed than it is to try and get free
of that stress later on.

Beginners Guitar Tip Number 5 - Monitor your progress.

It is extremely encouraging if you can discover that you have
actually made progress in learning guitar. I suggest that you
keep a record of all the techniques that you are working on. On
this list might be such things as, chord progressions and
scales. You will then note on a daily basis metronome speeds,
etc. At the end of the week, you can examine your improvement.

Here is how you might use this technique. For example, if you
are having difficulty moving rapidly from a G7 chord to a D
chord, the very first thing to do is set a metronome at the
tempo where you feel at ease performing the chords. Then settle
on your target. Every day make a note showing your metronome
speed. You will then be able to examine your improvement. It is
extremely gratifying to see your metronome tempo progressively
increasing.

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