Do you find it really hard sometimes to learn some Blues songs on your guitar? Even when you are able to learn something, it still takes you a lot of time while for some people it tends to be a lot more different. Why can some people, who are also beginners, learn the same songs that you are learning a lot faster than you can? What are they doing differently? There's always a right and a wrong way of doing things.
Like I've said, there's a right and a wrong way of doing things. If it's taking you so long to learn a particular song on your guitar, then maybe you are doing something wrong. Here's how I believe you should learn guitar songs (this does not apply to only Blues songs, but to any other music genres as well):
1. There are thousands, if not millions of songs that exist in this world. Like everybody else, there has to be some songs that you absolutely love and some others that you really really hate. That's normal, but what I need you to do though is this; on a little piece of paper, take your pen and write down a list of 10 songs that you enjoy listening to. They don't have to be your personal selection of the 10 best songs of all time but instead, just some regular songs that you really enjoy listening to.
2. Once you've written them down, now go do some research on them, go find out what guitar chords do they consist of? Out of the 10 ones, some will be very easy to learn, consisting of only 4 - 5 chords while some harder ones will consist of 8 - 10 different chord progressions. Websites like ultimate-guitar(dot)com, chords(dot)com and 911tabs(dot)com can be very helpful. Once you've done your research, re-arrange your list of songs in a descending order, that is "easiest" song to learn will have be first on the list, down to the "hardest" song to learn last on the list.
3. Now that you have your 10 songs written down in order on your piece of paper, it's time for you to get to work. If you've been playing for quite some time now, then you must probably already know some of the basic chords that exist. This should be enough for you to learn the first (easiest) song on your list. Learn that song well and spend as much time as possible on it until you know it completely. Don't move on to another song after learning just half of this one! Learn it COMPLETELY first, then you move on to another one.
4. After you are done learning the first song on your list, you can move on to another one. Hopefully it should not take you more than 4 - 5 days to learn the songs on the list, however if it does then it means that many of the songs that you have chosen are a bit difficult. In this situation, then you will need to create another list, but this time go look for songs that are easy to play and make a list from that. It's very important that you make a list though, as it will act as a form of reminder so that you don't forget that you have to finish all the songs on the list.
5. Practice as much as you possibly can! The more you practice, obviously the better you will become, so don't ignore the importance of practicing. After you've been through half of your list, do go back and practice again the songs that you've learned at the beginning. You don't want to spend so much time learning a particular song, just to forget it completely 2 months later.
So here you are! Try to follow this plan and see how quickly you'll be able to learn a huge number of songs in the shortest amount of time. In addition to that, there's a tool that you could use to really really speed up your learning process. This tool alone will considerably boost your guitar skills in no time, seriously you don't want to miss out on that one!
Like I've said, there's a right and a wrong way of doing things. If it's taking you so long to learn a particular song on your guitar, then maybe you are doing something wrong. Here's how I believe you should learn guitar songs (this does not apply to only Blues songs, but to any other music genres as well):
1. There are thousands, if not millions of songs that exist in this world. Like everybody else, there has to be some songs that you absolutely love and some others that you really really hate. That's normal, but what I need you to do though is this; on a little piece of paper, take your pen and write down a list of 10 songs that you enjoy listening to. They don't have to be your personal selection of the 10 best songs of all time but instead, just some regular songs that you really enjoy listening to.
2. Once you've written them down, now go do some research on them, go find out what guitar chords do they consist of? Out of the 10 ones, some will be very easy to learn, consisting of only 4 - 5 chords while some harder ones will consist of 8 - 10 different chord progressions. Websites like ultimate-guitar(dot)com, chords(dot)com and 911tabs(dot)com can be very helpful. Once you've done your research, re-arrange your list of songs in a descending order, that is "easiest" song to learn will have be first on the list, down to the "hardest" song to learn last on the list.
3. Now that you have your 10 songs written down in order on your piece of paper, it's time for you to get to work. If you've been playing for quite some time now, then you must probably already know some of the basic chords that exist. This should be enough for you to learn the first (easiest) song on your list. Learn that song well and spend as much time as possible on it until you know it completely. Don't move on to another song after learning just half of this one! Learn it COMPLETELY first, then you move on to another one.
4. After you are done learning the first song on your list, you can move on to another one. Hopefully it should not take you more than 4 - 5 days to learn the songs on the list, however if it does then it means that many of the songs that you have chosen are a bit difficult. In this situation, then you will need to create another list, but this time go look for songs that are easy to play and make a list from that. It's very important that you make a list though, as it will act as a form of reminder so that you don't forget that you have to finish all the songs on the list.
5. Practice as much as you possibly can! The more you practice, obviously the better you will become, so don't ignore the importance of practicing. After you've been through half of your list, do go back and practice again the songs that you've learned at the beginning. You don't want to spend so much time learning a particular song, just to forget it completely 2 months later.
So here you are! Try to follow this plan and see how quickly you'll be able to learn a huge number of songs in the shortest amount of time. In addition to that, there's a tool that you could use to really really speed up your learning process. This tool alone will considerably boost your guitar skills in no time, seriously you don't want to miss out on that one!
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Alfredo Menezi is an outstanding guitar player with a very huge knowledge of blues music. His "blues backing tracks" web-site is already a huge success with hundreds of new visitors everyday. Come and check it out to learn more about his web-site and also about that very special tool that he wrote about.
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