How to overcome challenges faced during initial guitar learning process?
"Music is not just a sound but it's an emotion created by musicians..."
Dinesh Kedari
Hello beautiful readers....
I hope you all are going great....
Well, in this blog, I would be sharing my experiences and what challenges I faced during my initial stage of learning guitar.
I will also be sharing my experiences and Do's and Don'ts during the initial stage of guitar learning as this might be useful in your guitar learning process.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
George Harrison
1) Buying a good guitar...
Good guitar not just only helps you to learn guitar easily, but it also keeps you motivated during this learning phase. Cause I have seen many of them losing their motivation in learning guitar only because of this reason.
As an amateur many of them don't have a clear proper roadmap to buy a guitar for themselves. And this is the reason why many of them don't go for learning guitar. And for this reason, I would prefer you to ask your friend who is good at guitar or maybe your music teacher to help you in buying decision of your guitar. In my case, I had my music teacher who bought me guitar. But, What if you don't have this type of help? For this, I would suggest you do a good research on this and make a proper decision.
As for beginners, I would suggest you to go for Yamaha F310 or maybe Cort AD810 acoustic guitars. Also do watch the video I have mentioned below to help you to carry some basic check while buying a guitar of your own.
2) From where to start? Online or Offline?
Now, after buying your first guitar the next question which will come in your mind is" How to start? Or From where to start?".
For this you need to decide whether to go for online coaching or look for a music teacher nearby.
If you ask me, then I would suggest you to go for a music teacher. Cause this will not only strengthen your guitar basics, but also ensure that you are on the right track of learning guitar and have a proper foundation.
A good music teacher will always help you in rectifying your mistakes which is very much required in this initial phase of learning. Otherwise you will keep on repeating the same mistake again and again and will go on practicing and building upon that same mistake which is not good at all.
Also a good music teacher will be able to share his/her experiences or techniques which in turn will help you.
But what if you don't have access to a good music teacher?
For this again have a proper research in finding out the best online teaching source.
I would suggest you to look on YouTube as its a good platform to learn and many of them are actually good in teaching the guitar.
3) Keep practicing and stay motivated...
Now you have started your guitar learning journey and might have learned some basic chords or scales or maybe you have learned a song to play so. But many of them complain the finger pain during the practice session and that is quite normal. And for this all I would just say just keep on practice.
Remember...No pain,No gain.
4) Never try to peel off your fingertip skin...
Another thing I would like to mention is that some people peel off their fingertip skin as it has become hard by continuously playing guitar over a period of time. And for them, I would recommend not to do so as this hardened skin will help you to play your guitar comfortably.
5) Proper maintenance of your guitar...
Next area I would like to focus is maintaining your guitar. This will not only help in adding ears to its life but also maintains its playability.
I would suggest you to clean your guitar once a while or maybe after your practice session because as you play guitar, you hold it very close to yourself and due to this sweat may get accumulate over the guitar's body and this sweat along with the dust might damage the finish of your guitar.So just make sure you take a good quality microfiber cloth and clean the entire guitar body and neck of the guitar and use another normal cloth to clean the fretboard.
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Life is like guitar....tune...play...repeat...
6) Be consistent...
And now finally one last tip, be consistent in your learning and never give up. There might be several incidents where I want to give up. But don't lose your hope and patience. But, keep practicing till the fruit of your hard work doesn't fall into your basket.
So all the best and keep believing in yourself.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU...
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