How To Play Guitar!

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You have found one of the best online guitar lesson pages to help you learn guitar, and how to play guitar the right way. If you follow my advice, you will learn to play electric or acoustic guitar faster than you thought possible by learning to avoid the mistakes MOST beginners make.

The first thing you should do is grab my "The Hidden Power of Guitar Chords" eCourse. There is so much advice included in this course that will help you enormously to learn how to play guitar. You will see the signup form on the right of this page, or you can click here > HOT CHORDS .

The 3 Essentials To SUCCESSFULLY Learning How To Play Guitar

There are three essentials to ensuring your success at learning to play guitar. Acoustic or electric, blues, rock, country, metal, jazz... it doesn't matter. Whatever style of electric or acoustic guitar you choose, you must master these 3 essentials.  If you don't, you will most likely fail. Or, at the very least, you will add many unnecessary months and years to your learning process.

Forget that. Choose to do it fast and do it right... it's much more fun that way. :-)

#1: Avoid Developing Bad Habits...

The 1st thing you need to know about learning how to play guitar is how to use a guitar physically. You know... how to hold the guitar, how to use your hands and fingers for maximum efficiency etc. MOST beginners don't use their body, hands and fingers properly. They have far too much tension and their fingers are not in control... they flap all over the place.

You must be as relaxed as possible at all times when you practice guitar and you must also ensure there is no excess finger movement. Getting this wrong can stunt your opportunity for reaching your full potential. Your technique will be lousy and your chords changes and lead playing will also be sloppy and sound very average. But who wants to be average? You want to be the best you can, right?

If you want to give yourself the best chance of success at learning how to play guitar, you must address this problem right from the start... before bad habits have the chance to develop. Be warned... they are very hard to fix after you have leaned them.

The best way to learn about how to use your body correctly and how to avoid bad habits is to buy a book! Yep... not free... but by far the best way to take care of this problem.

Click here for the book I recommend.

#2: Learn About Chords & Chord Progressions...

Chords are more important than anything else when learning how to play music.. But most learn to play guitar chords entirely the wrong way!

Learning chords is all about learning them in context of how they work together in songs. Learning them in groups is the way to go. Those groups of chords are called "chord progressions."

MOST beginners learn chords one at a time in a totally random and non-integrated fashion. A bad mistake than can cause you have great difficulty in working out songs by ear. And that is your goal... to work out your favorite songs just by listening to them.

You need to learn to recognize chord progressions when you hear them. Learning to hear a single chord is the slow way of learning and is no help at all. But it's one of the biggest mistake beginners make.

Always practice chords in groups of two, three, or four chords together. Learn how they sound together and your guitar playing learning process will be up to 10x faster than most.

The best way to find out about chords and how chord progressions work, is to get my "Guitar Chords" eCourse. It is designed to show you how to learn guitar chords the right way for maximum learning speed.

#3: Learn To Apply Your Chord Knowledge To Songs...

The 3rd essential ingredient is to learn songs. Lots of them.

But please, please, please... learn them in a methodical integrated manner. In the context of "chord progressions."

Also, make sure you learn each song completely before moving onto the next. Doing this provides amazing benefits you will only learn about after you get to your 10th to 20th song. You will start seeing how the chords to songs really work. You will see the similarities. It will be MUCH EASIER for you to learn songs by ear after you apply these principles.

You can absolutely slash your learning time and save years of struggle, frustration and disappointment if you do it this way. I should know. I am a professional guitar teacher and did it all the wrong way for 20 years! Oh boy, if only I had this information then.

This is the way I teach my personal students. It works. It works extremely well. My students outperform students of other teachers in my town by a factor of about 4 to 1. I have 10 year olds that leave teenagers in the dust for versatility, quality of sound and song and musical knowledge. That gives me a great deal of satisfaction and pride.

It's a bit like the Tortoise and Hare principle. My system forces you to use your brain and think before just rushing in. It may take a bit more preparation and planning initially, but in a short time the wannabe Hare will be eating your dust-cloud never to see you again.

Think about it...

To learn songs you can buy a good song chord book with well-crafted songs that utilize "chord progressions" in creative and effective ways. This is a must.

Look, it doesn't matter whether you want to play metal, thrash, jazz, blues, rock, or whatever... if you want to learn how to play guitar to the best of your ability as soon as you can, you MUST get these basic principles down. They are the foundation for every style.

For help with learning to play specific songs... I recommend Ben Edwards and Jamorama.

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