The Importance Of Playing The Guitar

We all have hobbies that we do in our pastime. It can be of any kind, such as playing sports, playing drums, reading, photography and hiking. It’s one of the best ways that can bring us happiness and joy towards our lives, but actually doing so is not as easy as it sounds. Learning it can be an overwhelming and scary experience. My hobby is playing the guitar and I have been doing it for years. You can learn how to play a guitar in 20 hours by learning the most common chords, practicing switching between them and learning basic strumming. In ‘’The First 20 Hours-How to Learn Anything’’ Josh Kaufman talks about how you can learn about just any skill in about 20 hours of focused and concentrated effort. He has a simple method of picking up …show more content…
‘’Most of the things we think of as skills, are actually big bundles of skills that requires all sort of different things. The more you can break apart the skill, the more you’re able to decide what are the parts of the skill that would actually help me get into what I want’’ (10:02) Take the skill that you are striving to learn and break it down into smaller parts. By breaking it into smaller parts, practice becomes less intimidating, and you can work on improving one thing at a time. (10:02) My skill is learning the guitar, learning how to form your fingers to hit a chord, working on one single strum, interchange between two chords are very important in order to play the …show more content…
You can start practicing three chords songs (G – C – D) and later on, when you feel more comfortable playing and switching between chords, try some four-chord songs. To play a note or chord correctly, you have to get your fingers in the right position and press as hard as you can on the frets, it will become a habit if you practice enough. The more ways you know to play a chord, the more flexibility you 'll have in moving from one chord to another. Most importantly, you have to check each string to see if all the notes sound clear. You need to learn enough that you actually know when you make a mistake so you can correct yourself. Second is strumming, a good strum is all in the wrist. Use your wrist to practice up and down motions. Keep your elbow in tight towards the guitar and should not move a lot, as you strum mostly from the wrist. To start, you’ll want the basic down, up, down and so on. As you learn, try to strum slowly. Eventually, you can start doing the down-down-up-up-down. Moreover, you need to keep the same tempo. The more you learn, the faster you can play. Make sure the chords sounds nice and clear with each strum, and then transition to the next