Thu 2 Sep 2010
This Is The Biggest Hurdle When Learning Guitar
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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.
If you do want to learn then the first thing you need to do is buy a course like the Jamorama one, or you could find a tutor to learn with. 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 you need to spend time to wrap your head around the theory side of music, how to read music, how to read tab, what time signatures are, what scales are etc.
I think it is the practice that really stops people in their tracks, at first it isn’t going to sound like anything as you’ll be buzzing the strings constantly as your fingers touch strings they aren’t supposed to, but then even as you get some chords going then you won’t be able to move between them quickly at all. Even just changing between chords is going to require hours of dedicated practice so you can actually do it fast enough to play a recognizable song, and it may takes months to do it for enough chords to play a small repertoire of songs.
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.
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