This Is The Biggest Hurdle When Learning Guitar
The guitar is a cool instrument to learn, and more people than ever are trying to master it now. The big problem though is that people think it is going to be really easy to learn because of all the ads that promise to have them playing in 24 hours, or tutorials which make it seem really easy – when actually it is really hard.
First of all you need to get a good course to follow like the one discussed in this Jamorama review, or pay for lessons. Then you need to put in hours of practice every week (preferably every day) to actually get your fingers strong enough to form all the chords, and get used to them so you can move between them quickly enough to actually play a song properly. Plus you need to learn all about the theory side of music, beats, measures, scales, modal harmonies, you can’t just strum those strings any old way and have it sound good!
People seem to think that practicing will just be them ‘jamming’ though, and when they struggle and it sounds awful as they practice, or gets really repetitive, then they give up. You need to stick at it, in time then yes you will be playing full songs as you practice, but to begin with you will be playing little melodies and probably messing them up, it all takes time. You will need to put in hours and hours of practice just so you can start to change between the basic chords with enough speed to actually keep up with the beat of a song, and it may take months to get to that position with all the chords you need for that song.
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.
