So, everyone assumes that a student should learn that “first”. By custom, the area of the guitar fingerboard furthest from the body is called the “first” position. The First Fret Is The Hardest Place To Play - Don't Begin There!įor instance, all guitar books begin by teaching you chords or notes in the “first position” at the “first fret”. Worse, the information and exercises are given according to the how the guitar works, not how the human body and human hand work.
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Such books are often merely collections of guitar information, pages full of chord diagrams, scales, songs, etc., with no information about how to actually get your fingers to be able to do these things.
Unfortunately, such “teachers” often write the method books that the unsuspecting guitar aspirant buys and places their trust in. They were told they “had no talent”, the fact is that their teacher had no knowledge of how to teach.
However, most of the people I have met who have failed at guitar have taken lessons, sometimes for years. Guitar players know how to play the guitar guitar teachers should know how to cause other people to play the guitar. Many, perhaps most, “guitar teachers” are not teachers, they are guitar players. Guitar instruction is dis-organized, unscientific, and, compared to piano or violin, a young and immature profession. Learning According To The Body, Not The Guitar However, if a student knows how to practice the necessary finger movements in a way that does not allow excess tension into the hands, arms, shoulders, and the rest of the body, they will be successful at learning to play, no matter how old they are. It will tend to happen more with adult students, and seniors because they have had more years to acquire tension in their bodies even apart from practicing guitar. This happens to a large percentage of people, of every age, who try to learn guitar. All you will know is that you cannot control your fingers. It will feel “normal” to you and you will not know your shoulders are tense. If you do not do this, if you allow your shoulders to tense when your fingers are stretching, that tension will stay in the shoulders and be reinforced every time you practice. That means you are not really learning “guitar”, you are actually engaged in “body learning”, and so, you must know and follow the well established laws of how the body, meaning your muscles, nerves, and brain, actually learn to do new and unfamiliar movements.įor instance, one of the laws of body learning is that all movements must be practiced extremely slowly, with great focus on relaxation throughout the body. At Guitar Principles, we call this "no tempo practice". When you learn guitar, you are really attempting to teach your fingers, hands, and arms new abilities. You must get your fingers to make movements they have never made before, and they must make them smoothly and quickly.Īt First, You're Not Learning Guitar, You're Doing "Body Learning". You must use muscles you have never used before. This is because the biggest obstacles to learning guitar are physical obstacles. How you practice is the single most important factor in whether you, or anyone, of any age, will be successful in learning guitar. Yes, anyone can learn at any age if they know one most important thing: how to practice correctly. Knowing How To Practice Correctly Is Essential
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