Guitar Playing Tips For Beginners

Most beginner guitar players develop bad practice habits. And if you're not careful those bad habits can handicap your guitar playing potential for the rest of your life!

You've heard the saying that "practice makes perfect", right? Well, sorry to say, but practicing the wrong things the wrong way just makes matters worse!

Think about it...

• If you practice something wrong over and over again, you'll become very good at doing something wrong! But it will never be right.
• You can't practice a bad technique and expect it to get better. You have to practice the RIGHT technique - perfectly!

Practice Goals

How and what you practice is very important. Especially how you use your body and hands.

The general idea is to be as relaxed as possible and avoid too much tension in your body.

"PERFECT Practice Makes perfect!"

That's the motto you should adopt every time you sit down to practice your guitar...

• TENSION is the greatest barrier to a free, natural playing style. Most beginners use far too much tension in their body and hands. You must always be as relaxed as you can and use a light touch. 
• Too much wasted finger movement when changing from one chord to another. Keep finger movements to a minimum.
• ALWAYS practice very slowly, as relaxed, as accurately and as perfectly as you can. This is where you train your muscles and nervous system to play guitar automatically for you on auto-pilot. The better you teach your muscles with good habits the more natural it will become.  

A Warning For The Wise... 

Many try to learn guitar on the cheap... tab, friends, internet etc.

It doesn't work!

Playing guitar is an art and a physical skill.

You just cannot develop the necessary physical skills from tab, magazines or the internet. It's too hit and miss. And mostly you'll learn bad habits and create a lot of gaps in your knowledge and playing ability.

So if you really are serious about being the best guitar player you can —of being able to play to your full potential without the usual handicaps and limitations most have— then you need a plan...

You need a tried-and-true 'system' that takes you by the hand and builds your skills step-by-simple-step in the order that offers the most benefit and fastest progress.

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NEXT: Muscle-Memory - train your hands to play perfectly on auto-pilot.