Nuts & Blogs

The amount of people looking to learn the guitar is increasing every year as the internet fills up with video tutorials aiming to help you. The problem is that for some reason people think it will be easy to learn, they see only 6 strings and wonder ‘how can it be?’, well the answer to that is very hard!

If you do want to learn then the first thing you need to do is buy a course like the Jamorama one, or you could find a tutor to learn with. Then you need to practice what you learn every day, as much as you can, to help build up the strength of your fingers and their dexterity, as well as allow you to move between chord shapes easily. Then you need to spend time to wrap your head around the theory side of music, how to read music, how to read tab, what time signatures are, what scales are etc.

I think it is the practice that really stops people in their tracks, at first it isn’t going to sound like anything as you’ll be buzzing the strings constantly as your fingers touch strings they aren’t supposed to, but then even as you get some chords going then you won’t be able to move between them quickly at all. Even just changing between chords is going to require hours of dedicated practice so you can actually do it fast enough to play a recognizable song, and it may takes months to do it for enough chords to play a small repertoire of songs.

The moral of this article is that you can definitely learn to play the guitar, but just don’t rush in thinking you will playing Led Zeppelin in a week’s time.

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