learn guitar with practice chord progressions

In order to learn guitar effectively Guitar in a Nutshell believes strongly that you should not combine the process of learning guitar with that of learning songs. They are very different things and need to be approached separately. One of the final stages you’ll go through before beginning to learn songs will be guitar chord progressions designed for practice. They will provide you with that all important intermediary step as you make the, sometimes delicate, transition out of learning guitar and into playing your first real songs. Only good quality guitar lessons can help you make this transition smoothly.

We are able to design these progressions so that they mimic very closely what you can expect to find in a great many songs while still taking care to ensure that they are made as elementary as possible for beginners to manage. You’ll quickly see how the all previous work you’ve done regarding chord connectors will now be invaluable. Trying to learn guitar is a challenge - it’s supposed to be! What what’s not supposed to be is a chore or labour, if you’ve been feeling like that up to know it’s time for your to change your mental attitude and approach to learning the instrument.

Practice chord progressions on guitar are a central element around which we also incorporate strumming and tempos. For example, one of the ways in which you’ll learn guitar is to take a practice progression and perform it at 100BPM with Strum No.1, then you’ll do the same progression at 60BPM with Strum No.2. Next how about doing the progression backwards and with a Shuffle Strum or in ¾ time? You’ll see that through our approach, practicing becomes a very absorbing exercise and you’ll be fully engaged in the process.

You’ll quickly find that the presence of connectors in the practice chord progressions will make them easier to perform than progressions where no connectors are present. It’s possible to have varying degrees of this however where perhaps 50% of the progression will be simple while the other half a little more challenging. Knowing how to stretch yourself just enough is the key to improving quickly as you learn guitar, fortunately by following the progressions as they have been designed and laid out on the site, all of this work has been done for you.

With just a small amount of practice chord progressions and a selection of universal strums it’s possible to extract hours of worthwhile exercises especially when you mix in the ability to change your drum tempos using the tracks provided in the Practice Module. After a week or so you’ll have developed a good technique for practice and this is going to be an important skill which will stay with you as you learn guitar over the coming months and even years.

Once your confidence has grown sufficiently don’t be afraid to venture outside of the program and to make up your own practice chord progressions. In fact, it’s very useful to be able to design your own exercises whenever you notice you are having a particular difficulty on guitar. The purpose should be to focus in on the problem and drill it until it’s solved, that’s how you’ll really learn guitar effectively.

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