“The internet age has made it far too easy to find all kinds of guitar and music related information for free within seconds. Unfortunately, despite the convenience of modern technology, it hasn’t gotten significantly easier for one to become a TRULY great musician.“
- A teacher can point out details you would likely never notice yourself, such as how you hold your hand/fingers. Many of these seemingly minute details become very useful later at a higher level of skill.
- Teachers can help speed things up for a student. What might take you months to figure out on your own, may only take a few weeks to get down working with a teacher…
- A teacher can point out mistakes you’re making, show you better mechanics and fingerings for how to play something, and encourage you when the going gets tough.
- As you journey along the paths of music, your teacher should choose the routes according to your abilities
- The internet age has made it far too easy to find all kinds of guitar and music related information for free within seconds. Unfortunately, despite the convenience of modern technology, it hasn’t gotten significantly easier for one to become a truly great musician
- Guitar players become frozen by excessive number of possibilities and choices and cannot make up their mind about what to practice to reach the next level of their musical skills
- Guitarists attempt to move from one type of guitar learning resource to another very quickly, not having fully benefited from what they were working on previously and (just as bad) having no idea how the next thing is going to help improve their musicianship.
- Although your guitar teacher’s role is to help you make much faster progress in your guitar playing than you can achieve on your own, it’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that nobody but yourself is ultimately responsible for improving your own guitar playing.
- There isn’t a guitar teacher in the world who can do all of your practicing for you and there isn’t a magic video or book on guitar playing you can study that will make you a great guitar player simply because you watched/studied it.
- Although there is a lot you can do to speed up the rate of your progress on guitar, you must remember that, similar to growing up, some processes simply cannot be rushed beyond the natural course of action
- Learn to be patient during the process of developing your musical skills and remember that the journey of being a musician is a never-ending one.
- “Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.”
- Guitar teachers who understand how to teach “creative application” are very rare…
- Use your teacher, trust your teacher, and if you must, fire your teacher. For many, the teacher/student relationship lasts a lifetime. Search until you find your teacher.
- Never before in the history of guitar has it been possible to run a quick search, sift through a few results, and get the lesson you want in less than 10 minutes…
Yes, the internet has made learning the guitar more accessible than it has ever been… yet most people find out that actually using it to learn guitar is harder than it sounds!
- With so many guitar lessons online these days, learning guitar should be easy… but the best lessons are hard to find, it’s hard to know which information to trust, and this is a whole lot harder than it should be!
- What happens is people go, ‘I want to play the guitar’ and the first thing they do is hit Google: ‘How can I play this?’ and the next thing you know you’ve learned all these tricks but you’ve never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
Resource Links