So you’ve fulfilled all the basic steps towards learning how to play guitar. You’ve purchased a guitar, you found the ideal room to practice in, you have the energy you need as well as the enthusiasm and desire to become an expert, but still something’s missing. A few weeks passed since you’ve last played. Since then your guitar has been sitting in the corner untouched. You now feel that playing the guitar just isn’t for you. What made you change your mind?
Most likely you didn’t remain focused and on the right path. You must realize that getting through the initial guitar lessons is the most difficult phase. But it does get better. The more you practice and keep practicing, the easier it gets. Don’t worry! A lot of beginners get hung up at first.
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How many times have you taken your guitar out of the closet, dusted off those old books you bought years ago at the local music store and found a quiet corner in a room to start to learn to play guitar only to get totally distracted by other responsibilities which caused you to leave the guitar sitting in that same corner for months or years? Now, each time you walk by the guitar sitting there in the corner, you remember you should get back to the books and the practicing, but somehow the time never presents itself.
Many of us do the very same thing. Whether it is because we don’t have enough time or because we don’t have the vigilance to seek out a local instructor, or we can’t find time in our schedules to get to guitar lessons or to practice, each one of us has a reason why the guitar remains collecting dust in the corner. We go through our lives with a little nagging feeling that we failed ourselves in music lessons and the guitar that lives in our closet serves to remind us of things we once wanted but couldn’t achieve.
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When I began guitar lessons over forty years ago there were few choices for learning to play the guitar. You either bought a book and taught yourself or you called the local music store to set up lessons with a randomly selected live teacher.
I was only eight years old when I met my first guitar instructor and I remember it like it was yesterday. He was a part time lounge guitarist that always smelled like cigarette smoke and definitely didn’t enjoy teaching kids. He was impatient, grouchy and didn’t hesitate to yell at me when I nervously chewed on my guitar pick. I didn’t understand him, I didn’t enjoy the lessons and soon wanted to quit. Fortunately my mother understood the problem and talked me into continuing with a different teacher.
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