| If you want to become a great guitar player, | | | | Teach your fingers to dance. In other words, |
| you need to focus on the three most important | | | | work on keeping your fingers flexible. There |
| things to guitar playing: knowledge, skills, | | | | be doing all the work so it is important that |
| and love. Having one or two out of three is | | | | they are able to tread lightly or heavily as |
| not an option. It is all or nothing and those | | | | needed. Practice finger exercises daily to |
| are what it takes to become a great guitar | | | | keep them quick and nimble. |
| player. | | | | |
| | | | Know how to relax. Beginners often experience |
| Working on Your Knowledge | | | | tension, stress, and pressure when playing |
| | | | the guitar after a long period of time |
| Learn how to read different style of guitar | | | | because there holding their bodies too |
| notes. To take advantage of various | | | | stiffly. Another lesson in connection to this |
| instructional guitar pieces, you should | | | | is positioning. Know the correct positions |
| familiarize yourself with the many ways | | | | for your body and fingers when playing the |
| guitar playing is thought. For instance, you | | | | guitar. |
| could come across with lessons made up of | | | | |
| numbers and letters instead of letters and | | | | One common problem experienced by amateur |
| musical notes. In this case, numbers are used | | | | guitarists is finger lockup. Sometimes, |
| for finger reference while certain letters do | | | | tension building from an elevated arm travels |
| not represent chords but positioning. O is | | | | to your fingers and force them to lock up. |
| for Open, X is for not playing strings, and T | | | | When this happens, people usually just force |
| stands for your thumb. | | | | their fingers to continue playing the song |
| | | | without pause. This is wrong. |
| Familiarize yourself with the history of | | | | |
| guitar making and playing. Learning the | | | | Know how to play both acoustic and electric |
| evolution of guitars will help you appreciate | | | | guitars. It never hurts to know both and |
| more the features of your present guitar and | | | | being ambidextrous at least in terms of |
| maximize its uses. Being familiar with its | | | | guitar type will let you appreciate what your |
| history lets you know now what people in the | | | | preferred guitar type has and the other do |
| past were missing and the potential of the | | | | not while helping you recognize what yours do |
| guitar you are holding. It is easier to | | | | not have and allowing you to compensate for |
| create magic when you know what your wand is | | | | it. |
| capable of, do you think? | | | | |
| | | | Working on Your Love |
| As for guitar playing, familiarizing yourself | | | | |
| with the different styles of guitar players | | | | Listen to guitar intensive songs. Try |
| of old and new will help you develop your own | | | | identifying the chords there using to train |
| unique style, recognize which features you | | | | your ears. |
| wish to integrate in your brand of playing | | | | |
| and learning from past mistakes. | | | | Hang out once in a while with people with |
| | | | similar interests. Talking about your |
| Take advantage of technology. Instead of | | | | favorite topic with people who are able to |
| focusing exclusively on old paper based | | | | understand and share your love will make you |
| lessons, you can also purchase audio and | | | | a better player. |
| video guitar lessons. You can also purchase | | | | |
| guitar learning software programs that will | | | | Rather, you should stop playing and |
| automatically let you know what could be | | | | concentrate on moving your fingers gradually |
| wrong with your playing and the proper | | | | back into its original position. Then, move |
| solution to it. | | | | to the next chord position ever so slowly. |
| | | | Work on getting sensation back to your |
| Working on Your Skills | | | | fingers. Follow this tip and you will play |
| | | | better afterwards. |