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Electric Guitar Lessons
For many students, taking electric guitar lessons is a natural progression onwards from acoustic guitar, it may even have been the entire reason you started learning acoustic guitar in the first place. You’ll certainly find a big, new and colourful world in front of you with electric guitar and at first this can even seem somewhat daunting, after all, there are many new techniques to learn, sounds to understand, digital equipment and amps to comprehend not to mention a much bigger fretboard to contend with.
As with most things, if you take a logical and measured approach to your electric guitar lessons you’ll gradually achieve a confidence in all things associated with the instrument. The worst thing you can be is in a rush! Try not to hurry through things in a mad stampede to ‘get there’. Simply follow a program which is going to take you through all the different aspects of playing electric guitar and let time take care of the rest. You can only improve at your natural speed. Trying to force that will just result in failure and frustration. It’s not about talent, it’s about motivation and perseverance. It’s always the students who possess those qualities which eventually win through - they don’t care how long it takes, they just keep going.
Your practice technique will become especially important if you want to extract the maximum benefit from your electric guitar lessons. This is because it can often be a harder challenge that simply learning to strum and play chords on acoustic guitar. You’ll need to learn how to practice correctly if you wish to make progress and that means learning how to practice slowly and without mistakes. Imagine your mind as a tape recorder trying to record everything you are playing. If you practice a piece too quickly and make lots of mistakes then that’s exactly how your mind will record it. The result is that you’ll end up really good at playing badly!
Instead we need to focus in on just one thing we wish to improve and devote the next 30 minutes to that and that alone. You should play so slowly that it becomes impossible for you to make a mistake which will then allow your brain to record it correctly. This should not be done once or twice but twenty times or more. It’s hard work yes and requires patience but that it what it takes. If you are not willing to put in that level of effort then there are others who are, and they will be the better guitar players because of it.
Teaching yourself to play electric guitar is fine however ideally you should attend about 6 months to a years worth of private lessons in order to really be capable of going it alone and teaching yourself. A tutor will be able to progress your playing a lot faster than you would on your own simply because nothing beats watching a real person do it in front of you. It’s inspiring and they can really help you find some valuable short cuts to cut your learning time, sometimes by as much as half.
Why not also combine that with electric guitar lessons online to push the envelope out? You’ll benefit from having multiple streams of instruction and one will feed off the other. You Tube is also worth checking out for free electric guitar lessons and I would definitely spend time there looking for lessons and song riffs as a way to keep everything feeling fresh and fun.
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