Learn to play guitar

If you`re anything like me, you want to learn how to play acoustic guitar as fast as possible. That`s quite all right, but there are a few things you need to know before you begin, things that will save you a lot of time and frustration.

1. To become a great guitar player you need to practice a lot. Because of this, keeping motivation up can be hard. A good tip to remedy this can be to play a long with one of your favourite songs. You`ll be surprised at how many songs you can actually play along to, even if you`re just a beginner. Furthermore, you can go on Google and see if you find chord charts for them.  Look at the charts and see if you can fine one that has somewhat of a simple chord progression. Then you can just download them, start practicing, and find out how good it feels to play along with a song you love.

2. Your guitar needs to be tuned properly. As unbelieveable it may sound, I`ve met people that didn`t know that each string needed to be tuned. And no, it`s not good enough to get it allmost right, it need to be spot on. This is because you judge your own playing by how good you sound, and all it takes is one string to be out of pitch for you to not sound as good as you would have if the string had been in pitch.

But how can you make sure your guitar is in tune? With an inexpensive pitch pipe. I got one myself too, I payed 6 bucks for it. Furthermore, you can tune from string to string, use an electric guitar tuner, or maybe tune from a piano or another guitar.

3. What kind of plectrum do you want to use? Do you want to use one at all? This is perhaps THE most overlooked piece of equipment when it comes to playing acoustic guitars; you don`t have to use one, it is possible to just use your fingers, but in any case you should a least learn how to use it. The reason for this is because you will have the possibility to change the sound of you guitar; a wery thin pick will give a “soft” sound, while a thick one will, you guessed it, give a “harder” sound.

4. Practice, practice, practice, there`s no shortcut. You want to learn how to play acoustic guitars but you don`t want to practice? Forget it, it`s not going to happen. Of course, who doesn`t promise themselves to practice a lot every day, but there`s always so many other things to do. Maybe there`s a good film on tv or maybe the big game is on. And who said I`m any different? I`m just like that myself, so this is what I suggest: when you`re thinking about how much you want to practice, don`t promise yourself an hour a day. Instead, make it 20 minutes. This is so much easier to actually stay with, and in my opinion little and often is the best way to go anyhow. Furthermore, if you`re watching tv, be sure to have your guitar and tabs near by. Then you can play a few minutes during the commercial breaks.

These are the tips I have for now. Maybe I`ll add some more if something pops into mind.

Practice, practice, practice. That’s the only way you`ll ever learn how to play acoustic guitar.

Thank you for reading.

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