Why You Need To Practice More When Learning Guitar

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. People tend to think that learning the guitar will be easy though, they see it only has 6 strings compared to the 70+ keys on a piano, and they assume they can master it quickly – which is not the case at all.

The first step you need to take if you want to learn the guitar is either grab a course like the one mentioned in this Jamorama review or you need to find someone to give you 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. Then one thing people neglect when they practice is the theory side of things, so set aside time every few days to sit down and go through how to read music and what modal harmonies are etc until you know it off by heart.

I think the biggest problem people have when learning the guitar is practice. They assume that after an hour they will be sounding good and can then build on that skill, except you will probably be buzzing the strings for the first week as you learn, then every time you learn a new chord you will struggle with it, so practice doesn’t always sound great, but it is necessary. You need to spend hours and hours just trying to change quicker and getting those chords right, it can take weeks or even months to get to the point where you have mastered a series of chords and can play them without hesitation.

So the moral of this article is that you shouldn’t believe people when they tell you how easy it is to learn the guitar, expect it to take months and be hard work and then you won’t get disheartened when you only make slow progress.