Guitar Lessons

Thinking of learning how to play guitar?

Stop. Think.

Do you actually want to succeed?

If you do, then how about swinging the odds of success in your favor? You've bought a guitar, maybe an acoustic guitar, maybe an electric guitar. You have a guitar tuner.  You have a book of guitar songs or maybe guitar chords.

OK, that's swell, but what's your Plan?

Your Plan for How to Learn Guitar

It may be tempting, after spending your money to buy a guitar, to save some money. After all, there are "free" lessons all over the internet. But think. How many people actually learn to play from these free lessons?

Ask around. Bet you'll find pretty much nobody.

Online Guitar Lessons are Best Only After You Can Play

Here's the deal. If you were driving to Denver, and you didn't know where it was, and had no map nor compass, and you wouldn't ask anybody, you wouldn't expect to get there.

Same with your learning-to-play-guitar journey.

Best bets

#1 Find a Teacher. This might be a good player, but good players aren't necessarily good teachers. Try to find a teacher that has successfully taught somebody to play. That's the key. And if you don't feel good, if you're not having fun, if you're not making progress, find a different teacher.

#2 Find a well-designed (and tested) self-learning method. Some of the most talented teachers have written fast-learning, to-the-point lessons. These are *way* better for quickly learning to play guitar than striking off blindly on your own.

Don't invest your money in your guitar, your guitar tuner, a book of guitar songs, maybe an amplifier, and then blow your whole investment to have a frustrating time with no progress and no success!

Protect your investment. Have the fun and the delight that success brings. Enjoy creating music with your own hands, by following a well-designed and tested learning method written by a skillful teacher, or by getting a skillful teacher to guide you directly.

Which is better: Guitar Lessons or a Guitar Course?

Hard to say. If the hands-on teacher is skillful, maybe that's better. But if you cannot find a truly skillful local teacher -- or if the cost exceeds your monthly budget -- then a well-designed self-learning course may be the answer.

If you have a well-designed learning method -- Guitar Lessons in a sequenced plan -- then all you need to add is some regular and frequent practice. Remember that you'll have more fun and success with 20 minutes a day than with five hours every Saturday.

Guitar Lessons Your Way -- Choose Your Style

Another great benefit of using a well-designed guitar course is that they come in a choice of styles, so you can learn the style you wish.

There are a number of truly great self-learning guitar courses. Just for example, want to learn the blues? Check out the Total Blues guitar course. Short video examples, and the rhythm written below will have you blasting the blues quick and dirty.

Or .. want fingerstyle? We'd enthusiastically recommend Finger Picking Fundamentals course. Same clear examples of basics, both video and notation so you can see and hear how it's done, by a master teacher (Chris Elmore).

Gutar Gitar Recommends

Take your pick of these: You can't go wrong. You'll see.

Guitar Secrets Revealed -- A detailed plan to learn the guitar from beginner to advanced level, and get a free course booklet containing 50 ways to dramatically improve your guitar playing right now.

Acoustic Guitar Methods -- Simple chords and chord progressions to learn acoustic guitar, and effortless left and right hand techniques to make you sound awesome.

Total Blues Guitar -- New 12 bar blues using power chords instead of triads, cool licks, and placement of chords for 12-bar blues.

Jazz Guitar Techniques -- An easy minor blues progression twist on the traditional jazz blues technique, along with how to solo over a jazz blues rhythm without loosing that smooth sound.

Speed Guitar Techniques -- The fast and easy way to double your guitar playing speed, and includes the hidden secret most people don't know about wrist movement that holds back your guitar playing speed.

Strumming 101 -- The simple quarter note strumming technique, how palm muting with downstrokes alter your playing sound when learning to strum, and the correct way to do the percussive slap on your guitar.

Dynamic Soloing -- Techniques that give great balance to your phrasing and will make your lines come alive, plus how to sound like you’re actually playing through a progression instead of grasping for notes.

Finger Picking Fundamentals -- The finger placement trick that overcomes the problem most beginners face when learning to fingerpick, and how to speed your fingers and strengthen your hands.

You can easily see why these are well-designed, focussed lesson methods that are easy to learn and get you playing fast.

You just choose the style you want to play, and dive in.

See you next month. By then, you'll be groovin!

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