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What we can learn from baby is about learning the guitar

March 18, 2021March 11, 2021adminLeave a comment

Babies learn more in the first few years of their lives then we will ever learn for the rest of our lives. Besides a brain being on supercharge for learning what else can we learn from observing their behaviour that we can apply to learning the guitar?

How do babies learn?

When you observe a baby trying to learn how to crawl or to walk you find that they don’t practice the same thing every single day! You don’t see them practising trying to roll over every single day, they practice different skills. So one day it might be rolling over, the next day it might be grabbing the toys the next day after that it could be throwing their toys.

How does that relate to learning to play guitar?

Learning the guitar is the same we don’t practice the same school over and over again until achieved at one school before moving on to something else we learn skills simultaneously. And by practising different things on a rotation we give our brain space and time to absorb these new skills before picking them back up again and practising them again.

Variation and time between guitar practise sessions

Having variety and space between practising different skills that you’re working on will help your brain become more fission to learning these new skills. Weathers new skills understand your notes on the fretboard new chords strumming patterns. Anything at all. Try to keep your practising sessions varied! This will help them to be more fun and less repetitive as well so your practising will be more enjoyable.

You might even find that you get better skill a few days after taking a break from it because your brain subconsciously has been practising it for you when you sleep! That’s pretty cool hah! It’s the same with babies.

I hope this helps you to get head ahead, understanding how you can vary your guitar practice and give yourself the time and space so that you can actually learn guitar quicker without feeling like you are doing repetitive drills day in and day out. …

Learning the guitar as an adult beginner

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021adminLeave a comment

Before I started learning the guitar I actually played the piano. To quite a high level I completed my grade 7 by the time I was 17 and carried on from there is a hobby. Many of the great such as Eric Johnson actually play the piano before they learn the guitar. So I thought they get a whole would be relatively easy.

Learning the car has definitely been a challenge. I didn’t realise how much more coordination it would require for my hands to sync together with left and right. Even with years musicianship underneath me on the piano.

Fun in the guitar was definitely a new experience, because the left hand would be required to press down the frets while the right hand will be doing this drumming. And this was completely different to the piano where the left and right hand were doing independent things but the motion were pretty similar between the two.

I remember the first time I played the guitar and my fingers were so uncoordinated they could barely hold out the cord even the simplest cord of them or I think was a simple G chord with two fingers. The way that my wrist touch arch over the guitar neck was such a struggle, my wrist at her after mere 5 minutes.

This is why I have so much sympathy for adult beginners who are starting to learn the guitar. Many of which do not have any musicianship prior to learning the guitar. They’ve never played any instruments before or even think I thought about how the structure of a piece of music work or is composed. Not even knowing the basic language that is used to communicate music such as theory notes rhythm pitch any of that. Learning the guitar can seem like climbing Mount Everest as a complete beginner.

This is why it’s so important to have really amazing support around you when you’re trying to learn the guitar as an adult beginner. Many of your family members might not believe in you or think that you can do it but you can!

It will take longer and it will work I more effort many people think that if he started as a child it’s a lot easier. But remember that children were quite a lot more learning to understand the context of music for us as an adult you actually have a better foundation them.

But as a child, They have a lot less things to think about and they can really focus on learning and that’s what their brains are useful nearly 100% of the time learning where is it adults we have so many more responsibilities and things that distract us that trying to practice for 15 minutes a day can seem like a struggle. But you can do it it might just take a little bit longer but with the support of a really great guitar teacher you will be well on your way to starting to play your first song. And even your first jam with other people as well and that can be the greatest feeling of all.

It is possible to make a childhood dreams of becoming a rockstar true it just requires patience and perseverance and persistence and a little bit of practice every now and then.

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