Hello there, fellow HIVE users worldwide as well as dear readers from both HIVE and outside of it! For today's first music-related post here on HIVE blog, I decided to share some useful advices on playing guitar from my personal experience. I started playing guitar back in 2018 and it's been quite a while since then. As I kept on learning and practising, I got better at it and I learned some things about this wonderful musical instrument.
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Therefore, without further ado, here are my advices:
- Aways keep on learning and keep on pushing yourself to your next creative and technical limit on the instrument. It does take time, a lot of effort, and a lot of dedication to get to a place of stability in terms of both knowledge and technique, but don't let yourself get discouraged on the way and keep on doing it. Eventually, you'll master a series of skills on guitar.
- Start off with the guitar type, model, and brand that you'd like, although for a start, I'd recommend an acoustic guitar. Harley Benton on Thomann has a couple of relatively cheap ones and of very good quality for their price as well!
- Be it lead or rhythm, make sure you know what path you want to pursue in your learning. You can try both if you will.
- Use tabs only when needed or when you feel uncertain about a couple of notes or chords that you need to play. Tabs are very good for a start, but if you really want to master the instrument you also need to keep going without them.
- Feel the instrument more as though it is an extension of yourself. No, this isn't just philosophical chatter but actual biological truth: learn to play by ear the songs you want. The more you'll play on guitar, the better you will become at it and, subsequently, you will be able to play by ear as well. You also have to train your musical ear as well all along the way.
- Start using Yousician in order to learn and practise more as well as to have fun on the way. It's free (it comes with paid plans as well, if you'd like, but you have a free time limit there of 10 minutes or so per day) and so it is worth checking out and using.
- Write music down either your way or using music notation. Write your own tabs if you will as an exercise, but, as you progress and as previously mentioned, learn to be a skilled guitarist on your own, retaining the music notation in your mind as you play. This comes in handy very well at later points.
- Play for fun and play with your friends. Jam along as much as you'd like.
- Take good care of your guitar and replace its strings as often as possible.
- Keep your guitar in safe places and in its gigbag. Clean it from dust every once in a while as well. This ensures a very good physical quality for the instrument, naturally.
That was all for this post. I truly hope you liked it! Thank you very much for your time, readership, and attention here on my HIVE blog! All the best, take care, stay safe, and have an excellent autumn along with your dear ones!