Jamorama Review

A while ago when I was just getting into learning how to play guitar I was lost. I had a slight idea on how to learn to play guitar. I mean the obvious way was to go to my local music store and pay a teacher by the hour for guitar lessons.

But the problem I had was that it was too expensive for me. At the time my plan was to save up for college. It can be quite expensive doing that so I did some reasearching online and found a wealth of information on how to play guitar. There are free lessons as well as paid lessons which both helped me out very much. So the tips I present to you today are based on my own experience of learning.

1) Toughen up those hands. When you first start playing guitar it is going to be awkward just like anything else you just start out doing. Your hands need to adjust to forming chords. They may not be able to stretch out that much to form barre chords but give it time and practice. They will develop well. Also your finger tips will get sore really fast. Don’t be afraid of developing calouses on your finger tips as they will go away as they toughen up and you get better at playing.

2) Speed up the learning curve by learning how to read tabs. Tabs are the easy way of reading music. The internet is loaded with guitar tabs for just about any piece of music whether it is a rock song or even a piano piece. I would not grow too accustomed to playing with tabs as you will want to play by ear and feeling as I will get into.

3) Learn all of the major and minor chords. After you learn how to read tabs which takes a few minutes you will be able to read chord charts and understand the position of the open chords. Then you should learn barre chords and how to move them up and down the fretboard.

4) Don’t waste your time on a cheap guitar. I know it is tempting to buy a guitar from an electronic store because they are under $100 but they are that cheap for a reason. They are not designed very well for a serious player who wants to learn how to play lead and use guitar techniques like bends. Not only that but they have a very shallow sound. You can still get a decent guitar for less than $300 at your local music store. Just ask them what they recommend for a beginner musician.

5) Learn to play guitar by ear. Of course you will have to learn the chords before you try and play songs. Playing by ear is very important. Just imagine being able to listen to a song on the radio and picking it up right away with your guitar. Understand that a lot of songs will have variations of the major and minor chords so it will take time to get down. So at first you should just listen to chords and notes being played so that you can tell the difference between them.

6) Don’t get ahead of yourself. In order to become an advanced player you need to build a solid foundation for high level playing. This is done by mastering the basics. The basics of guitar is rhythm, tuning your guitar, and developing your ears for music.

7) Develop a feel for music. You do this simply by spending hours upon hours of listening to your favorite music and playing along to it. You can tell the difference between an OK guitar player and a good guitar player just by listening to how well their music flows. theis is what musicians strive to master. You want to be a pleasure to listen to so make sure to sharpen up that playing by practicing.

Don’t just practice, strive to play well every time you play. Otherwise you will never progress.