This Is The Biggest Hurdle When Learning Guitar
The amount of people looking to learn the guitar is increasing every year as the internet fills up with video tutorials aiming to help you. 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.
First of all you need to get a good course to follow like the one discussed in this Jamorama review, or pay for lessons. 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.
People seem to think that practicing will just be them ‘jamming’ though, and when they struggle and it sounds awful as they practice, or gets really repetitive, then they give up. You need to stick at it, in time then yes you will be playing full songs as you practice, but to begin with you will be playing little melodies and probably messing them up, it all takes time. You need to spend hours and hours just trying to change quicker and getting those chords right, it can take weeks or even months to get to the point where you have mastered a series of chords and can play them without hesitation.
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.
