Learning Guitar Is A Snap, Here"s How
Okay, if I can learn how to play the guitar, any moron can.
I kid you not.
I have as much talent as a sea slug, and yet, if you saw my videos, you'd swear I'd been playing for quite some time.
Well, the truth is, I've been playing the guitar for a little over a year and with NO formal training.
How? This article is going to show you EXACTLY how I managed to play well enough to impress my friends and even play in public during a live performance in front of over 100 people...
again, with NO formal training.
First off, you need to know that I'm no spring chicken.
I just turned 50 in November and the last time I even picked up a guitar before last year was when I was 20...
and that was just to fool around.
But finally, late in life, I decided to get serious...
but I didn't want to spend countless hours on boring lessons.
So I did it my way.
How? I sat down and said to myself that what I really wanted to do was just play my favorite songs from yesteryear.
So that's what I did.
I went online and found some guitar chords to some of my favorite tunes.
I started off with easy ones.
I did this because I didn't want to get frustrated early on.
No sense trying to play "Bohemian Rhapsody" if you can't play "Proud Mary".
So I started out with simple tunes to get some confidence.
I played them on my stereo to make sure I knew how they went and then just followed the chord charts in playing them.
I then started adding more songs to my collection, attempting some more difficult ones as I went along.
By concentrating on the easy ones, I was gradually able to increase my skill while still enjoying what I was doing.
I didn't tackle the harder songs until I was good at the easier ones.
Sure, the more difficult songs did prove to be a challenge at first, but in time, I was playing them as well.
So my practice sessions essentially consisted of me playing my favorite tunes, which was more fun than it was work.
Only thing I did that was at all structured was to make a schedule for each day of what songs I would practice.
This made it so that I didn't get rusty on any one song.
Want to see how well I play now? Take a look at my videos, which you'll find in my signature.
Trust me...
if I can do this, anybody can.
To YOUR Strumming Success, Steven Wagenheim
I kid you not.
I have as much talent as a sea slug, and yet, if you saw my videos, you'd swear I'd been playing for quite some time.
Well, the truth is, I've been playing the guitar for a little over a year and with NO formal training.
How? This article is going to show you EXACTLY how I managed to play well enough to impress my friends and even play in public during a live performance in front of over 100 people...
again, with NO formal training.
First off, you need to know that I'm no spring chicken.
I just turned 50 in November and the last time I even picked up a guitar before last year was when I was 20...
and that was just to fool around.
But finally, late in life, I decided to get serious...
but I didn't want to spend countless hours on boring lessons.
So I did it my way.
How? I sat down and said to myself that what I really wanted to do was just play my favorite songs from yesteryear.
So that's what I did.
I went online and found some guitar chords to some of my favorite tunes.
I started off with easy ones.
I did this because I didn't want to get frustrated early on.
No sense trying to play "Bohemian Rhapsody" if you can't play "Proud Mary".
So I started out with simple tunes to get some confidence.
I played them on my stereo to make sure I knew how they went and then just followed the chord charts in playing them.
I then started adding more songs to my collection, attempting some more difficult ones as I went along.
By concentrating on the easy ones, I was gradually able to increase my skill while still enjoying what I was doing.
I didn't tackle the harder songs until I was good at the easier ones.
Sure, the more difficult songs did prove to be a challenge at first, but in time, I was playing them as well.
So my practice sessions essentially consisted of me playing my favorite tunes, which was more fun than it was work.
Only thing I did that was at all structured was to make a schedule for each day of what songs I would practice.
This made it so that I didn't get rusty on any one song.
Want to see how well I play now? Take a look at my videos, which you'll find in my signature.
Trust me...
if I can do this, anybody can.
To YOUR Strumming Success, Steven Wagenheim
