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Why you should learn music theory for guitar.

March 26, 2021March 13, 2021adminLeave a comment

Why is it important to learn music theory for guitar.

A lot of guitarists get by with just understanding what shapes they need to play on the fretboard and learning to play songs that way.

And while you can do that.

Once you understand at least a basic understanding of music theory, you can make playing the guitar, a lot more fun.

Songwriting on the guitar

For example, if you ever want to create your own songs. Once you know what the chords are that you’re playing. It’s a lot easier for you to start playing around with those chords and creating your own music.

Music as a language

The other side of music theory is that music is a language. Part of that language is understanding the alphabet of language, these are what we call notes. Once you know the notes on your fretboard and on the guitar. Then it’ll make it a lot easier for you to start building the foundation of understanding how music works, which means then you’ll be able to communicate with others.

When you’re playing the guitar and being able to song right and understand what you’re actually playing. Understanding music theory means you get a lot more fulfilment when it comes to learning the guitar.

Rather than feeling like a copy cat and just following tutorials on YouTube.

Jamming with other people

It’s also important if you ever want to jam and play with other people as well. The more you understand music, the easier it is to communicate with others. And be able to jam with them.

I think it’s very easy to feel like a fraud as a musician if you don’t know music theory. So it’s best to invest some time into understanding music. So that you can enjoy playing it even more.

I hope these thing shave given you some ideas on why it’s important to work on your music theory.

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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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