I Want to Learn Guitar - Start Here

So You Wanna Play Guitar?

The good news is that it is a lot easier than it looks. Learning something new sucks because when you start you are going to be bad at it. That's right, you are going to suck. I remember when I started playing the drums I was pretty horrible but I discovered something very valuable from my experience learning the drums: GET AS MANY EARLY VICTORIES AS YOU CAN!

That's how I stayed MOTIVATED in the beginning of the drums and that's what I plan to do when I learn the guitar (and so it's what you who are following along should do too). Motivation is all you need, the rest will follow. If you think you're not musical enough, think again. I would argue that you just haven't had the medium (instrument) to express that element of yourself. ANYONE AND EVERYONE CAN MAKE MUSIC!

It's all about motivation because with any instrument you must dedicate time to developing and mastering your  MUSCLE MEMORY! All instruments are based on muscle memory. With drums you begin to learn how to move your arms and what to hit in what order to produce a pleasing sound. With guitar you do exactly the same except you use your fingers.

To recap:

EARLY VICTORIES > MOTIVATION > MUSCLE MEMORY

Today I asked a guitarist friend of mine what I would need to learn guitar and he said "the will to do it".

If you see yourself as someone who could follow through with this and you have the desire to learn guitar and hopefully now the clear mindset to see how easy it will be then stick around. The next post will be about picking the guitar for you guitar.

With that out of the way, lets move on.