Guitar Lesson-Guitar Tips
All right, this is part two of the basic posture for holding pick and how to hold your hands lesson. At the last part of lesson one, let us get ready to encourage you as a new student that everything that you are going to be learning here is going to seem like a task. You are going to think I am not cut out for this. I am not good enough to all these things. Totally folks, totally not true so do not even entertain the thought. Any great guitar players have to go through the same list of exercises, chords, learning the music theory, playing the songs just the whole nine yards.
So be encouraged. If you are having a hard time to do any of these exercises or learning any of the songs, be encouraged that you are learning something that is worthwhile. So not something that anybody can pick and do. It is going to take someone who is diligent, and someone who is driven. That is what it takes to playing an instrument well. There is a small amount of talent that I have seen. I have got students that come in all the time and there is the small of amount of talent. Sometimes a particular student may have a great ear. Meaning, they can hear things that other students may not hear right of the top of their head. There are other students that have great motor skills so they are able to play scales and chords, stuff like that pretty quickly but maybe their ears is not so good. Then I have other students who are just completely tenacious and just practicing their instrument all the time.
The list goes on and on about the different talents that we have. So if you can hone in on what your talent is, and that is a good thing to know but it is almost superfluous. If you have a great ear, great! You got great ear. You still need to practice other stuff. So wherever your weakness is, practice out a bunch and know what your strength is, okay.
If you have seen any on my guitar videos, this is how the playing so long. As a player, you are not as depressed with yourself anymore as you were in the beginning and you will find this as a new player, you will be very impressed with the new areas that you get to in playing the songs if you are happy. Well in the same way, as you are growing into a musician, you are growing as a person too and sometimes, you do not impress yourself as much anymore. Well, in my guitar videos, if there is anything there that you say “wow! That is great, or wow! He must be very talented” It is not like that. It is like it is really a bunch of work but it is fun at the same time. So on the scale of one to ten; I would say the talent that I was born with is probably like a four or five. Something like that. It is not that I do not have a ton talent that I feel I was born with but I have lot of tenacity and I love music, so I practice my butt off, and you will find that with the most players. That anybody who is worth their wait and knows how to play. It is just as they log a lot of hours in on the instrument. So all that I could say, keep practicing and be encouraged. You can do it with anything that you set your mind to as long as you follow the steps to get there and be wise, and give a time.
So anyhow, check it out yourguitarage.com. I have got an eBook on there and you will have some more lessons on there shortly, dexterity exercises and that sort of thing. But if you do not know to read charts, play chords, do strumming exercises or to know how to strum. Check out or scan my other videos and then also check out the eBook. There is a wealth of knowledge in there, it is basically condensed into about a 26 page PDF that will allow you to explore all these techniques that I talk about in a real concise refine way.
So anyhow, keep practicing, check out the videos that should put on a few up every week, trying to do it everyday and keep practicing.
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