Learning A Guitar
The acoustic guitar is, in certain circles, often wrongly thought of as a poor relation to the electric. However, nothing could possibly be further from the truth. When played in the hands of an expert, the tone, warmth, clarity and cleanliness can be utterly, utterly, jaw-droppingly stunning. Shivers down the spine, arm-hair on end sort of stunning.
Learning an acoustic guitar should be a really satisfying experience. The programme you use to learn, though, is ultra important. Some methods are incredibly ineffective and the likelihood is you’ll not improve, you’ll become increasingly frustrated and in a short while you’ll smash the stupid thing into a trillion pieces aka Pete Townsend. So, before you enroll on any tutorial course, you need to satisfy yourself that the tutors:
1. Know what their talking about. This might sound like a given but too many ‘experts’ have relatively superficial knowledge and try to ‘fatten up’ the content of the course with useless junk.
2. Know how to present effectively. You may be the greatest guitarist the world’s ever seen but that goes for absolutely nothing if you can’t put the information across in an educational and involving manner. Make sure the tutors credentials are up to scratch. Who have they worked with in the past to lend them credibility?
The acoustic guitar is an ideal starting point for beginners as it serves as a bridge to all guitar styles and techniques. Many of the worlds’ best electric guitarists started off on an acoustic. If you can play an acoustic, the electric will seem comparatively easy, due in no small part that strings don’t need to be pressed so hard.
Like all things in life that are worth doing, the key to success is practice and patience. And practice. If you don’t put in, you won’t get out, pure and simple. However, once you begin to become semi-competent, the satisfaction and lifelong pleasure you’ll derive will be worth the effort x 100. If you’re even the tiniest bit interested go and give it a try. You’ll regret it if you don’t.
Learning to play the guitar was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. It’s given me massive amounts of pleasure that I can’t begin to describe, and I’ve met so many strangers that I now count as friends through our mutual love of music. I’ve been playing in a band for almost 20 years and I’ve never grown tired of the buzz of playing live on stage. It’s nothing short of magical.
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