These 10 Tips will make you better at Guitar [It's proven].

Are you practicing guitar for hours and not improving as much as you want or not at all? Are you watching tons of random youtube videos but you're still stuck in a rut? There's a lot we can learn from top performing athletes when it comes to repetition and muscle memory...

1) Practice it slowly. After that, practice it even slower. Muscle memory takes between 20 and 80 times of repetition to develop. The more precise your execution, the faster muscle memory will develop. Therefore you will have better results practicing something 20 times slowly and correctly, than 50 times rushed and sloppy.

2) Take breaks.

3) It’s better to practice 5 minutes a day, 7 days a week than 5 hours on one single day of the week. Slow and steady wins the race.

4) Set daily, weekly, and monthly goals. If you dont know what you’re aiming for, how will you hit it?

5) Learn songs you love and it will always be a joy working on them.

6) Your hands are not too small or too big or too weak, too skinny etc. Django Reinhardt and Tommy Iommi didn’t even have all of their fingers. PS Trim the nails on your fretting hand.

7) Rhythm is king. Its better to play an entire song in time without hitting a single right note than it is to play all the right notes without regard to your place in the song.

9) Practice difficult passages bit by bit. Don’t try to start from the beginning and stop every time you get to the difficult part. Work on the hard parts individually, slowly and perfectly. Then attempt to play the entire passage.

10) Have fun. That’s the whole point isn’t it?

Make sure you follow these 10 tips for guitar beginners, and life will be much easier!


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