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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Joined: Jun 2010
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You have to walk before you run. You have to want to LEARN to play the guitar before you have a chance of learning to PLAY. And it's not a short-term proposition.
If you're bored after one month, without hearing you, I'd say you need to get serious about learning the basics. Can you play the songs you practiced as well as you'd like, for example?
Playing a musical instrument is at its root developing muscle memory. Which is why it doesn't really matter which hand does what or even whether the strings are in the standard order or reversed (like Hendrix, a lefty who just flipped a right handed guitar upside down -- I personally know three good players who do that). And muscle memory only comes with repetition.
Take your list of chords. Could you, say, play them at 120 beats a minute, one beat per chord? Can you do it with your eyes shut? Can you do even a simple down, down-up, down-up, down rhythm flawlessly through the chord changes for a whole song?
If you really want to play guitar, don't even think about lead or barre chords other than F (those up-the-neck chords) for a good year. Practice the basics -- changing chords and strumming or fingerpicking. Over and over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. It's worth it.
Get a teacher you like, tell her specifically what kind of music you want to be able to play and be patient enough to take the steps to get there.
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