As a guitar tutor of over 25 years, I have researched and studied the very best ways to teach and the best ways to learn.
The following editorial is aimed at beginners to intermediate players and can cut down the amount of time it takes to master the instrument by many years!
First of all, tuning. Take my advice and get yourself a good quality electronic tuner. This alone can save you months of struggling to tune up your guitar by ear.
You will still learn the skill of manual tuning by repetitively hearing the sounds of the strings when they are in tune. This way, you can learn something with no effort at all on your part!
The next item to learn is the names of the notes on the fretboard. This is enormously important and vital to achieve further expertise in music theory related to the guitar.
I have a technique for teaching the notes on the fretboard that can reduce the time of learning every single note name instantaneously from around 5 years to approximately 1 month!
You simply need to spend five minutes a day doing this, the remainder of your practise session should be spent playing your chords and fundamental scales, pentatonic, blues and diatonic.
Also spend some time rehearsing your licks and playing techniques. Then, close to the end of your session, spend a little time playing anything you want. Just let yourself go and enjoy playing merely for the sake of it.
Here’s a simple practise schedule that will help you become a competent guitar player in record time:
1. Spend 5 minutes just naming notes all over the fretboard.
2. Spend 5 minutes playing chords as well as strumming and picking.
3. Spend 5 minutes playing scales.
4. Spend 5 minutes rehearsing your playing techniques as well as lead licks.
5. Spend 10 minutes practising something you really like or learning a new piece.
That’s a total of just 30 minutes every day. Nowhere near long enough to get fed up but concentrated enough to get the whole lot to stay in your head so that you can summon it up and use it at will whenever you need, for example when improvising a lead solo.
A steady and constant practise schedule is essential to speeding up the learning process, because the mind only learns by repetition.
As a guitar teacher, I see this all the time. My finest students are those that practise a consistent routine.
With any luck, this editorial has made you realise that you are able to speed up the learning process of learning to play guitar as long as you have the discipline and resolve to keep up with the schedule.
So there you have it, the best and fastest system to learn to play the guitar.
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