6 - Now you are going to want to learn as many different ways as you can for playing a chord. For example, there are ten different basic hand positions that you can use in order to play a basic C chord. Obviously you are going to want to be going for the perfect open C chord primarily, but the more ways that you learn how to play a chord, the greater level of flexibility you are going to have when it comes to transitioning from one chord to the next one. This is going to come in handy when it comes to learning how to compose your own music.

7 - You should practice at least five days a week for a bare minimum of a half hour. If you want to learn more quickly, then you have to force feed yourself and your brain the guitar. This includes having a good ear for tone and pitch, and learning how to comfortably place your body, which includes back, legs, arms, and shoulders, proper hand coordination for strumming and fret technique, and lastly, fret-hand muscle memory.

8 - You are going to want to practice your chords and your hand positions whenever possible, even when watching television or talking to friends. Learning the hand muscle memory for frets is actually quite difficult in comparison to learning hand muscle memory for strumming, except for when it comes to finger picking. You will not actually have to use your other hand, just use the one hand to go over the different chords as often as you can. This is going to keep you avoiding looking down too much at your hands while you are practicing. When you are learning the chord positions you are going to want to study your fingers, ensuring that you are getting the chord positions all correct so that the muscle memory will also be correct. Over time you are going to want to look less and less often at your fingers but do not be afraid to check occasionally to ensure that the proper positions are being achieved. Your confidence in the position of your fingers will be improved to the point where you do not need to look as often in the future.

9 - It is wise for you to press on the strings as hard as if you were actually playing so that you can build calluses on the tips of your fingers. It is going to be uncomfortable at first, but once you manage to develop the appropriate calluses on your fingertips, the pain is going to disappear. The length of time that is required to make this happen is going to be completely up to you depending on how often you practice and for how long.

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Originally posted 2009-11-10 03:08:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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