subject: Learn How to Play Guitar Amazingly Well, Using This Super Simple Method Focused on Taking Action [print this page] Learn How to Play Guitar Amazingly Well, Using This Super Simple Method Focused on Taking Action
If you want to learn how to play guitar -- as well as possible -- you need to know how to learn. Do, then think. You learn through doing - not through thinking. You do, then - in a proactive way - you assess how well you did. Actually most of the time - with the premise that you have a very clear desired outcome for your action - you do not really have to think, to assess how well you did, afterwards as you have a sense of how well you did. You can liken this with aiming at something. You shoot. Then the result of that shot is very apparent. And what you should be doing to hit the target will be apparent. You see right in front of you the result, so - if you hit to the right of the target, there is no question, no doubt whatsoever, that you should shoot to the left from where you just hit. It is more than obvious.
Use this way of operation whatever you are doing. You need to have a goal that is as clearly - mentally- - visible to you as that shooting target was. Then you just start "shooting". Immediately, you see exactly how well you did - but more importantly, how your next action should be tweaked in relation to the one you just performed.
I will give another example, in which the above way of operation is used. If you are a guitar player - rather than having no goal at all, or having some fuzzy one, make it really clear. This goal can be whatever you want it to be, but have a goal (I will explain why it is important in a while)
Imagine if you were at a shooting range, and the guitar represented the gun. What would represent the target? If you have no clear goal, you will get a blank when you think about it - I can guarantee that. And that is a bad thing. Your guitar-related goal needs to be precisely as clear as the shooting range goal is. How do you achieve that? Well, a good idea is to make it simple. I might have mentioned that already, but whatever. It needs to be one, clear thing.
My goal is to become as good as I possibly can. I then shut off any thinking -- yes, ANY thinking - as thinking will only get in the way of what my fingers are doing. I have that goal, and use my common sense to what could accomplish that. I know that through accumulating reference points I will learn, so I think about what will get me the most of those. It is very common sense - only no one thinks about it. The answer? Constant variation. You do as many different things as possible. Done. I hope this helps you learn how to play guitar.
