how to learn guitar songs

Many students on guitar are perfectionists in the wrong way. They believe that each song they learn should be practiced until perfect before moving onto the next one. But I can honestly tell you that…

This is a sure fire way to fail with your guitar lessons!

Learning guitar through songs works best when you continuously move onto new songs. At first all of them will sound bad and there will be many areas which will require work but the best way forward is to keep your mind consistently engaged and entertained with new songs.

You’ll still be working on the things you need to improve but from different points of attack and that is what makes all the difference.

Staying devoted to single songs trying to make them perfect will often drive you crazy with frustration and you’ll become de-motivated. Once your de-motivated it’s only a short walk to failing on guitar altogether and giving up.

Nothing in real life works in a perfect way including your guitar songs, somehow it seems like a very neat and logical plan to have each step perfect before moving forward but these days we know better than that. Experience has shown that such an approach is not how the mind learns best.

The advice is to learn lots of different songs and not to get bogged down trying endlessly to achieve perfection.

As you get better on guitar ALL YOUR SONG WILL GET BETTER COLLECTIVELY.

You’ll do far better with that kind of approach as it’s simply what works the best in the real world. Pick and choose lots of songs to do from the Songbook and indeed from any other sources you have available to you. Given time and practice they will all get better together and instead of having one song perfect, they all will be perfect.

Being able to play a song perfectly does not depend on how much you practice that one particular song, it depends on how good your over all level of guitar playing is. The level of your guitar playing is what decides if you can play a song perfectly.

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