Are you having some trouble learning some of your favorite Blues songs on your guitar? Why can some people learn a lot faster than you can, even when they've just started learning how to play the guitar as well? What exactly are they doing differently? There's a right way of doing things and there's also a wrong one. If you do things the wrong way, then it might take you a lot more time to achieve your goal.
Like I've said, there's a right and a wrong way of doing things. If it's taking you so long to learn a particular song on your guitar, then maybe you are doing something wrong. Here's how I believe you should learn guitar songs (this does not apply to only Blues songs, but to any other music genres as well):
1. Of the thousands of songs that exist in the whole world, there has to be many of them that you really love and some others that you absolutely dislike. That's pretty much normal actually but what I need you to do is, to get a piece of paper and write down the name of 10 of your favorite songs. They don't have to be 10 songs that you believe to be the best in the entire Universe but instead, just 10 songs that you simply like.
2. Once you've finished writing your list down, go find some information about them. What I mean is; Do some research and find out what chords are those songs made of? Use websites like ultimate-guitar(dot)com, chords(dot)com and 911tabs(dot)com to help you in your task. When you are done with your research, re-arrange your list of songs in a descending order, more precisely what I mean is; Put the "easiest" song to learn first on your list followed by the second "easiest" then the third, then the fourth and so on.
3. Your list of 10 songs are ready, so now it's time for you to get to work. I'm hoping that you aren't an absolute guitar beginner but instead, I'm hoping that you already have some knowledge of basic guitar playing. If that's the case, then take your list and start practicing and learning the first song (the easiest one) on that list. Practice as much as possible and don't move on to another song until you know this one completely.
4. After you are done learning the first song on your list, you can move on to another one. Hopefully it should not take you more than 4 - 5 days to learn the songs on the list, however if it does then it means that many of the songs that you have chosen are a bit difficult. In this situation, then you will need to create another list, but this time go look for songs that are easy to play and make a list from that. It's very important that you make a list though, as it will act as a form of reminder so that you don't forget that you have to finish all the songs on the list.
5. Don't forget to practice as much as possible! Don't be lazy by deliberately missing some practice days, try to be serious about it. When you've done learning half of the songs on your list, do go back from time to time to practice again the ones that you've learned at the beginning. You don't want to be spending countless of hours learning something, just to forget it 2 months later.
I'm sure you will find some of the tips that i have written to be quite helpful. Try to follow and apply them and see how naturally and easily you'll be learning songs on your guitar. But that's not all, if you are looking for an even FASTER way to improve your skills, then I might have what you need! It's a unique tool that you could be using right away to learn songs even faster, so keep reading to learn more about it!
Like I've said, there's a right and a wrong way of doing things. If it's taking you so long to learn a particular song on your guitar, then maybe you are doing something wrong. Here's how I believe you should learn guitar songs (this does not apply to only Blues songs, but to any other music genres as well):
1. Of the thousands of songs that exist in the whole world, there has to be many of them that you really love and some others that you absolutely dislike. That's pretty much normal actually but what I need you to do is, to get a piece of paper and write down the name of 10 of your favorite songs. They don't have to be 10 songs that you believe to be the best in the entire Universe but instead, just 10 songs that you simply like.
2. Once you've finished writing your list down, go find some information about them. What I mean is; Do some research and find out what chords are those songs made of? Use websites like ultimate-guitar(dot)com, chords(dot)com and 911tabs(dot)com to help you in your task. When you are done with your research, re-arrange your list of songs in a descending order, more precisely what I mean is; Put the "easiest" song to learn first on your list followed by the second "easiest" then the third, then the fourth and so on.
3. Your list of 10 songs are ready, so now it's time for you to get to work. I'm hoping that you aren't an absolute guitar beginner but instead, I'm hoping that you already have some knowledge of basic guitar playing. If that's the case, then take your list and start practicing and learning the first song (the easiest one) on that list. Practice as much as possible and don't move on to another song until you know this one completely.
4. After you are done learning the first song on your list, you can move on to another one. Hopefully it should not take you more than 4 - 5 days to learn the songs on the list, however if it does then it means that many of the songs that you have chosen are a bit difficult. In this situation, then you will need to create another list, but this time go look for songs that are easy to play and make a list from that. It's very important that you make a list though, as it will act as a form of reminder so that you don't forget that you have to finish all the songs on the list.
5. Don't forget to practice as much as possible! Don't be lazy by deliberately missing some practice days, try to be serious about it. When you've done learning half of the songs on your list, do go back from time to time to practice again the ones that you've learned at the beginning. You don't want to be spending countless of hours learning something, just to forget it 2 months later.
I'm sure you will find some of the tips that i have written to be quite helpful. Try to follow and apply them and see how naturally and easily you'll be learning songs on your guitar. But that's not all, if you are looking for an even FASTER way to improve your skills, then I might have what you need! It's a unique tool that you could be using right away to learn songs even faster, so keep reading to learn more about it!
About the Author:
Alfredo Menezi is an outstanding guitar player with a very huge understanding of blues music. His "blues backing tracks" web-site is already a huge success with hundreds of new visitors everyday. Come and check it out to learn more about his web-site and also about that very special tool that he wrote about.