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Are you a beginner, someone just starting to learn playing their guitar, or maybe you've been playing a short while and now need direction, guidance and the answers to some basic questions?
Or perhaps you're an intermediate player who's mastered the basics but you are now wanting to increase your chord vocabulary, would like to improve your soloing techniques and learn about music theory? There are so many things out there that can block your attention these days. Whether it's from friends, magazines, the internet. One guitar player is telling you to do one thing while another is telling you to do something else.
No wonder so many beginners are so stressed about playing guitar. They tell you "you have to do __(fill in the blank), and that's the only way to get good. This is a bunch of crap. There's no way you can get anything done worrying about all this stuff.
For a beginner, you shouldn't worry about playing anything but chords. Work on making the chords you're learning sound clean and clear. Once you have three down, learn another set of three. Learning just three chords a week for two months will have you playing 24 chords.
Can you imagine how many songs you could play knowing just 24 chords?
When you get comfortable with playing chords, and only then, you can think about mastering other things related to guitar. Like playing an acoustic guitar with a slide. Or learning fingerstyle.
You'll find that everything revolves around the chords you're learning now. It doesn't matter if playing with a slide or fingerstyle is your thing. Even if you want to be a lead guitar player.
All these thing rely on chords. If you haven't spent enough time with the chords, you're going to have a really hard time learning anything else.
So work on three chords a week. If they don't sound clean, don't go ahead and learn more. Learn to get those chords sounding clean. Then you can move on to the next three. It doesn't matter how much time it takes to get those chords sounding good. What matters is how clean they sound.
If they sound clean, you've mastered them. Move on to the next three. Just be sure you keep playing the chords you've mastered while you're learning the new ones.
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