Best Tips To Playing Better Guitar

What grooves you? What is the reason you want to get better?

Whatever your intentions are if your just beginning to play acoustic electric guitar, want to learn a few licks of your favorite songs, want to learn blues, rock and roll or funk or you are on your way to record your own music, there are resources available to help you.

Here are a few ideas that may help you better understand your guitar playing and some solutions you can consider.

Guitar videos
Buy a acoustic electric guitar lesson on video for either at on your DVD player or on computer that will include hand position, how to strum properly, rhythm and timing, finder exercises that go through various songs. Essentially these become a mirror for you in learning to play as you mimic what you’re watching on screen and then reproduce this on your own. If you like too learn on your own and you are a visual learner, then with commitment and dedication, this is the best way to go.

Guitar Instruction
You can find a community of acoustic electric guitar instructors in your surrounding area who are either private tutors or work through a community college. You’ll want to consider their expertise, the type of students they work best with, their flexibility with your schedule, success stories, and of course their fees, in considering working with them. You can take lessons either in a group or one on one- both have good and bad points but either will work to help you.

Playing partners
Find someone in your local community who plays. You can ask at your local guitar shop for private lessons or post on something like Craigslist to find a teacher. it is important to build a relationship with a player who is better then you who also desires to be accountable in practicing weekly. What you can provide is the commitment to meet up with them weekly and practice. To find what method works you can learn from their techniques in return. Of course, you always need to be aware of learning bad habits in situations like these, which is why it’s important to have a foundation in guitar technique before starting.

The Theory of Guitar
Developing a basis in guitar theory is related to guitar technique. Chord patterns, minor and major chord progressions, note scales, and overlap with piano and percussion instruments can all give you a basic structure upon which to layer in the knowledge and technique you gain in your guitar playing.

To me, your musical ability and creative talent is best expressed in playing the guitar. Playing guitar can provide you with a lifetime of enjoyment for yourself and your friends and family with a commitment to constant improvement.