How to learn to play the guitar in 3 Steps

[DonEsteban]

Compare the process of learning how to play the guitar to the process of learning touch-typing. It has three stages:

1. Learn the spelling. Witch key for witch letter. Compares to learning scales and cords on the fingerboard. Still everything has to be "thought" or consciously "remembered" (or sometimes not :- ).

2. Practice this stuff over and over and the more practice you have, the easier it is to do, your writing (playing) speed increases, you make less mistakes. Still there is a lot of thinking involved!

3. Then suddenly one day you realize, that you wrote a sentence on your keyboard (played a tune on your guitar) without having thought about writing/playing. Your body, you fingers or who knows what, suddenly has learnt to take over the more basic part of it, while your mind thinks of the text you want to write, the tune you want to play. You have achieved.

But because playing the guitar is 1000 times more demanding then touch-typing a piece of text, you need way more time practicing.

And even being able to touch-type doesn't mean, you have the creative skills to write a poem or a novel. So your artistic development has to take place too.

So you must read other books, develop Ideas, learn about dramaturgy and so on. Everything of these has it's equivalent in learning music/guitar. Here you go...

If this helped at least a single person it was worth (touch-)typing it.