This Is The Biggest Hurdle 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.

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 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 I guess I am saying that yes if you want to learn the guitar then it is cool, it is fun and you can do it, but go into the process expecting it to be slow and painful at first or you’ll just quit when you don’t get fast results.