Do you know how some guitar players practice most days of the week, work hard and are passionate about their guitar playing, but they are always struggling to be able to play guitar, as they will? They are frustrated because they are not improving fast enough, begin to doubt their guitar playing potential, or even feel discouraged or angry with themselves when they think of how long it takes to become a better guitar player.
Can you relate to it? I am sure we have just described myself 15 years ago.
There are specific reasons for that guitar players go through such frustration and disappointment. Here are 11 important guitar players make mistakes and repeat again and again that you should be completely avoided.
1. Teaching yourself to play guitar. Many people try to teach himself how to play guitar. Yes it is true that some well-known players were 'somewhat' self-taught, but I do not therefore suggest that strategy, even if your favorite player was self-taught. If you are 100% sure you can build strong effective learning and training on their own, it's great. But if you're like most of us to do it alone is the most difficult and time consuming, stressful and frustrating way to learn something. It is a mistake that you should avoid. Some guitarists think it will impress others if they say "we are a self-taught guitarist. This statement may impress a few inexperienced people, but is self-taught is not a "badge of honor '. Would you rather impress others with your guitar or with a careless statement about your guitar playing? I'm not criticizing the self-taught guitar players, I'm just saying that there is no advantage of being independent silent GW ... and no, it is not true that being "self taught" makes us more 'original'. In fact the opposite is often true.
2. Taking Guitar Lessons From Guitar Ineffective Teachers. Unfortunately, most electric guitar teachers have ZERO training in how to teach guitar. What's worse is that the vast majority of teachers do little or nothing to improve their guitar teaching skills. Want proof? Use Google's keyword tool. Type the keyword in this phrase: 'Guitar improve teaching skills', 'guitar teaching skills', or 'guitar teaching education' and you'll find that less than 10 queries per month is made for these items on Google! There are obviously some very efficient electric guitar teachers around, but there are a lot more ineffective teachers. Here is a free resource on how to distinguish between the good guitar teachers and mediocre those free guide: how to find a guitar teacher: http://tomhess.net/HowToChooseAGuitarTeacher.aspx
3. Seeking new Guitar Information (tricks, tips, tab) without a proven strategy to achieve your specific goals Musical. We need information, advice, help and music to play, but without some strategic learning and training process that is specific to your skill level, your musical style and what you will be able to do as a guitarist , Information won 't get you where you want to go. It is better to seek assistance to develop a tailored strategy for you to become a better guitar player. Following this strategy is in place, then it is time to deal with learning the correct information.
4. Not knowing specifically what you want to play. Most guitarists are not specific enough when they think about (or tell others about) what they want to be able to do with their guitars. Saying: "I want to play what I want to play" is too vague. How can you (or your guitar teacher) to develop a specific and effective guitar training strategy, unless the goal you have is specific? It is like saying that you will be a great athlete, how can you effectively train with such a vague goal? Of course there are things you can do to become faster, stronger, more flexible or what, but it is much easier if you first get specific as I want to train to be a gymnast, or a long distance runner, or a body builder. Yes, you can still be improved without a strategy, but it will take much longer and be much more frustrating. You can always change your goals later if you discover you want to do something else instead.
5. Not enough focus on things that matter most to make you a better guitar player. Have you fallen into the trap of practicing guitar without focusing on the practical things that can quickly start to improve your guitar playing? Many people really do not understand, and apply this concept in enough detail .... For example, I have a student named Mark, who used to take lessons from another teacher in the past. Mark studied sweep picking arpeggios with his former teacher, and made some progress. But Mark did not understand what "special" things that he needed to concentrate on first, before you try to master sweep picking arpeggios he practices. This held him back and make him very disappointed. Mark's former teacher only knew how to 'learn' arpeggios and general sweep-picking concepts. He did not really know how to "train" Mark of the specific things to focus on and how to overcome the challenges that Mark was there. If you want to see a small sample of this check out this short sweep-picking video lesson: http://tomhess.net/3StringArpeggiosLessonFull.aspx.
6. For much focus on things that are not Core for your goals. Besides not focus on specific things that many guitarists focusing on the 'wrong thing'. Some enthusiastic guitarists will be temporarily filled with things that are distractions from other things that can help their guitar playing much more. Here's an example: I used to get so frustrated and angry when I could not play something perfectly, I would lock myself in our guitar practice room and say, "I'm not leaving this room until I master this damn lick if it takes me the next 19 hours! No breaks! No food! No human contact! I'm going to nail this! "And I did master it. On the surface it may seem as though I was on track and practice in a good way .... But in reality I spend our time just to stop being angry and frustrated. I was not invest our guitar practice time wisely by focusing on the things that mattered most to do a better guitarist. In other words, our perseverance was admirable, but our strategy to master important long term goal was weak. I allowed myself to distraction. I can not make the same mistake more and I would urge you to also avoid it! Focus on the things that really matter to your guitar playing right now. If you are not sure how to do this, visit a proven guitar teacher today.
7. Focus on the right things, but in the wrong order. This is a common misconception that even many advanced guitar players make that cause a lot of wasted time and frustration. Imagine you want to improve your ability to create your own cool guitar solos. Let us assume that you are sophisticated enough to really understand all the primary and secondary elements composing guitar solos (or you have a guitar teacher to help you.) Each of the many elements that must be learned and / or practiced easy to create awesome solos that you like. Where to start? What should you focus on first, second, third? Which of these things, you should practice the same time? There is always a certain order, that musical skill to be learned and mastered in order to explode your musical skills. Unfortunately, this order is quite different for each person style of music, musical goals, skill set and knowledge to give an example here would be pointless. Our advice, find the b est you can learn and study with him / her to be able to do what you will do with your guitar much quicker and easier.
8. Not to isolate problem areas. Learn guitar players are aware of the little things that keep them back in big ways. Because these small shortcomings seem insignificant to us, we often ignore them. The truth is, small hinges open big doors. In the video above, I explained how to give your guitar pick to lose its momentum when you're "not picking" a note on the guitar makes your game slow and sloppy .... which will make you feel very frustrated . That is why I was sure to do a special section to help you avoid this error. Check the small sample sweep picking video for more details: http://tomhess.net/3StringArpeggiosLessonFull.aspx.
9. Learn and practice guitar in a stepwise linear process. Is following a linear stepwise approach to learning, practicing and mastering guitar work as common sense, good for you? Yes it does ... And that is why guitar players who follow such a path is not great guitarists. I will let you in an insider's secret ... The truth is that after a linear approach to learning guitar, practicing guitar and mastering guitar is the number one reason for the "GOOD guitar players' struggle to be" GREAT guitar players "... I originally thought I would write an article on this one point alone, but I think you will learn this concept better in another short video I recorded while I made a new guitar instructional clinic tour a few months ago. Check out this free sample from my clinic on how to practice guitar http://tomhess.net/LinearVsGeometricApproach.aspx.
10. Practicing Guitar Similarly Your Favorite guitar players guitar practice. Have you ever read about how your favorite guitar players guitar practice, and then tried to repeat the same practice routine? Yes, I've made this mistake too! It seems natural to use a similar guitar practice often, to our favorite guitar players use. It is a mistake because your current guitar skills and knowledge of music is probably very different from your favorite player. His / her challenges and needs probably are not the same as your own.
Professional guitarists practice for different reasons than most amateurs do. For example, before recording a new album, I practice very differently compared to the period before they go on tour. When I'm actually on tour my practice routine change dramatically again. The rest of the year, my practicing schedule changes again. This happens because in every case, my challenges and goals are quite different. When my guitar student asks me, "Tom, how you practice guitar?" I am careful not to let my students believe that they should practice the same way as I do. Their practice schedule and strategy must be built around you and you only! If you need help to build your own practice schedule, email me directly.
11. Learning from many different sources of information. There will always be many educational opportunities and different routes to take, but it is important that you do not get distracted into following some advice from someone with another good advice from another person, then follow more resources from elsewhere and so on and so forth ... while different people can have some good ideas to offer, it is a fact that distraction is a major reason why many guitar players who are active learning, not just move on quickly ... these people are always busy following all other resources, teachers, philosophies, instructional videos, free online guitar lessons, but all this makes them take a step forward then 2 steps right, then a step forward, then 3 steps to the left, then a step back, then two right, then 1 step forward and then another step to the left ...
An illustration of this is shown below. The first way is obviously the most direct way to reach your goals. The second road is the inefficient approach filled with many distractions that come from different parts of the advice.
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