Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Learning Guitar Is Not Easy

If you want to learn to play the guitar, then you have to accept the fact that it will not be an easy job. Learning how to play the guitar will take most of your patience and your time. It can even take you away from your other hobbies.

A person who wants to learn guitar-playing should focus on understanding guitar concepts, proper practice techniques like focus and attention span and developing routines towards a better guitar-playing technique.

One must never try to aspire to be a guitar player if he does not have the desire to learn how to play the guitar. A person's desire or willingness to exert effort to learn guitar-playing can play a very big role in his success. If you are just playing the guitar for the heck of it or you are just doing the motions then you better review your priorities. If you are not really interested in guitar-playing but would just like to show off a new skill to your friend then you will only be frustrated later on.

Proper guitar playing is just a matter of letting your fingers learn and remember. Sometimes, your fingers become so rigid you cannot hold the proper strings but in due time, your fingers will remember and will magically play on its own. When this time comes, playing the guitar will no longer be an effort.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Which Guitar to learn on?


There are three main types of guitar that you will encounter. They are:

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Classical Acoustic

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Acoustic

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Electric

Chances are that if you have asked someone if you can use their guitar for a while, it would probably be an old classical acoustic guitar or maybe a steel string acoustic.

These guitars are excellent to learn on because electric guitars require things like leads, amps, speakers and power. With acoustic guitars you only need a pick.

The other great thing about acoustic guitars is that you can’t turn them up loud. When you are learning it is probably better to play on a guitar that isn’t going too be loud, only loud enough so your ears can hear your errors and your good performances.

If you don’t know which types of guitar you want to play on, ask yourself, ‘what kind of music do I want to play?’

Pick a song that you like for its guitar sound. Listen to the guitar sounds and only the guitar sounds. Are they clean, soft sounds? Or are they harsh, heavy or distorted? Generally, acoustic guitars are softer and cleaner. Distorted, heavy sounds come from electric guitars that are plugged into amplifiers and effects units. Can you hear individual notes being picked or are the strings being strummed hard? The harder you play, the thicker your strings need to be. You need to know what style you want to play.

OK you have found a style of music that you like. Try and find out what the band video for that song is and watch it. There will probably be a section in there where the band is playing. In this part, look at the guitarist. Is he/she playing on an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar? What brand is it? What style? If you know the exact guitar from the video, you can ask to play on it at your local guitar shop to see if it suits you.

People play guitar for many different reasons. You need to understand what it is that you want to get out of the guitar. To discover your tastes in guitar music, listening to different styles and genres. Ask musicians at music shops about what kind of guitars different bands use, or ask them what kind of amps/effects those artists use to get that sound.

The answers don’t have to be exact because they will get you thinking about what you need to buy to achieve the sound you are after.

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