Why didn’t anybody tell me this when I was teaching myself to play guitar?

Sometimes teaching yourself to play guitar can seem like a hopeless case. You spend hours alone in your room fruitlessly struggling to change between chords. And strumming can be a compete nightmare.

It’s hard to understand why your strumming sounds so bland and monotonous compared with the music you hear on the radio.

When I got my first guitar I was so excited. This was it – the beginning of something special. I knew I had the will power and drive to master my new instrument and I was willing to put in the work.

I was determined to teach myself to play guitar but I was about to hit a major roadblock:

• I couldn’t get the hang of strumming and my rhythm was terrible
• I didn’t know how long to spend practicing every night
• I didn’t know what chords I should be learning

When I look back at it now I realize I didn’t even know where to start.

The problem was I wasted so much time messing around trying to find the easy way to learn guitar that the situation began to look hopeless.

After months of fruitless practice my fingers were red raw with pain, my strumming hand had cramps and the idea of playing amazing solos was a distant memory.

So how did I turn this miserable situation around? What were the key ingredients I was missing when I started to teach myself to play guitar?

Well, after several months of wasted time, energy and cash I learned several important lessons.

Here are 3 key points I learned:

1. Buy a good guitar from the off. By starting to learn on a good guitar you can save you months of wasted time and effort. The one really big mistake I made when I first started was buying a cheap guitar.
2. Have a plan and follow it. When you continuously change your focus you never get anything done.The best guitarists are focused and learn one thing at a time
3. Do waste hours practicing things the wrong way. If you spend night after night practicing the wrong things bad habits will form and you will never get rid of them. It’s important to make sure you are learning the correct techniques and methods.

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Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Football
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