Guitar: Can You Learn To Play Guitar Without Goals?

By: Peter Edvinsson

In many articles on the net on learning to play guitar you will find many article authors stressing the importance of setting goals. Well, it would be interesting to find out if you can learn to play guitar without goals. Let us investigate the matter!

I have many memories of my first attemps to play the guitar. Like many boys I had many interests like reading, playing piano, singing, listening to music, athletics, chess, stamp collecting, painting and other things at different times. Playing guitar was just one of them.

I remember that I had my own way of practicing guitar playing. I always had my guitar on my bed waiting for me. I sat down on my bed many times everyday playing for a while and then starting to do other things.

Sometimes I felt inspired to play guitar for an hour or two and other times just for a minute. Did I have goals or not?

I know that I was developing as a guitarist quite fast and I think it must have been something in my way of playing and practicing guitar that was good.

I believe that some of the reasons for my progress during those early days of my learn to play guitar career were:

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   I felt no pressure to become an accomplished guitarist. I just felt the joy of sitting down with my guitar trying to find out the treasuries in the land of music.
   
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   My father was a guitar teacher giving me lessons at times and I always heard him play guitar in our home. Other guitarists visited our home many times and these visits inspired me a lot.
   
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   I never felt a pressure to play fast and thereby building tensions by playing too fast. This is one of the big mistakes beginning guitarist and even accomplished guitarists sometimes make.
   
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   As I mentioned previously I did a lot of other things besides playing guitar and I guess all these things I was involved in kept my mind quite healthy and helped me retain my joy when I learned to play guitar.
   

I guess in a sense I had goals that was not so apparent to me that directed me towards somewhere even if I was quite content being on the road of progress towards guitar land.

Can you learn something from my early guitar experiences? At least you can learn the following:

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   When learning to play guitar always remember to enjoy the act of playing without thinking too much on what you can or cannot do as a guitarist.
   
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   Try to associate with good musicians and guitarists that inspire you to play musically and that give you the motivation to learn to play new things on your guitar.
   
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   Beware of playing too fast on your guitar. There is a risk of building up muscle tensions and thereby actually reducing your ability to play fast. A remedy for this and a way to tame yourself is to use a metronome at a low tempo to reduce your speed to a level where you can play your guitar in a relaxed manner.
   
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   To become an interesting guitarist and musician you might benefit from being involved in other activities like listening to good music, having another hobby, reading good books, assiciate with other people and more.
   

Do you have to have goals to become a good guitarist? Well, even if you don't have learn to play guitar goals in the ordinary sense you can help yourself to play everyday by having easy access to your guitar.

I had my guitar on my bed. Maybe you want to have your guitar in your favorite armchair. I guess you understand the principle....


Author Resource:->  Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and learn to play guitar resources at http://www.capotastomusic.com/

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Learning Acoustic Guitar With Online Lessons

By: Dominic Donaldson

Music it is said can be the best medicine, well most people say that laughter is the best medicine and I am inclined to agree with them on this point, but music has the ability to move your emotions like nothing else on earth. It can make you feel happy, sad, elated, mad, uplifted and one hundred and one other feelings and all in the space of three minutes or however long the track last for.

Music can be soothing and relaxing and those effects can be heightened further by deciding to learn to play an instrument. One of the most popular choices of instrument is the guitar and especially the acoustic guitar. The acoustic guitar can release a series of rich and wonderful sounds that can warm and stir the heart of yourself or others around you when played correctly. Unfortunately, it can take some time to learn how to play an instrument like this correctly especially if you decide to do it on your own.

Thankfully there are a number of resources out there today that will allow you to learn to play like a master through the aid of acoustic guitar lessons. Whether you want to learn through a book, video or with a teacher these acoustic guitar lessons will have you wowing crowds in no time.

Before the invention of the internet there was only a couple of ways to obtain acoustic guitar lessons and that was either to get a teach yourself book or book up a lesson with a tutor. However, since the invention of the internet, there are now a number of sites that offer videos allowing people to pick up the skills they require to play to perfection. Technology giants Apple have also looked to capitalise on this market sector with their application Garage Band which allows users the opportunity to get acoustic guitar lessons from the professionals themselves. Who could teach you to play Roxanne better than Sting himself?

There really is no reason not to learn an instrument these days, sometimes the travelling after a hard day's work could put people off, but now with the ease of the internet, all you have to do is go home, turn on the laptop and sit back, relax and practise, It really couldn't be a lot easier.

If you are thinking of learning how to play the acoustic guitar in 2010, then get online and search for acoustic guitar lessons and make sure you can amaze and stun crowds with your performances.


Author Resource:->  Dominic Donaldson is a business analyst with many years of experience in the computer industry. Find out more about acoustic guitar lessons at http://www.licklibrary.com/artists/acoustic/

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