How to stay committed to playing the guitar?
Cyinide Sun asked:
I’m 16 and I recently stared to take lesson for classical guitar. I practice but some days Im to lazy or a just don’t do it and it dosent feel like I’m advancing. I would like to go to a music college so I have to be pretty good by senior year. Can anyone tell me how they stay committed to it?
(btw classical guitar is harder to learn I work out of a book and I’m working on scales right now so it’s really boring)
Thanks guys for all the answers!
I’m 16 and I recently stared to take lesson for classical guitar. I practice but some days Im to lazy or a just don’t do it and it dosent feel like I’m advancing. I would like to go to a music college so I have to be pretty good by senior year. Can anyone tell me how they stay committed to it?
(btw classical guitar is harder to learn I work out of a book and I’m working on scales right now so it’s really boring)
Thanks guys for all the answers!
try to play something fun after you do classical so u want to play and have a scheduled practice time. Try to practice 15-20 minutes a day. have fun Caroline
At first learning guitar feels like a chore when you’re just getting the basics down,but it will get more fun as you get better.I know this because it took me a year to just to be able to sit down for 45 minutes a week straight just to learn chords from a dvd.But that’s probally because i have ADHD .
Another problem could be that you may not be playing the music that you WANT to learn,later on you can change to electric guitar if you want and play different styles such as metal,rock,punk,etc.
Just get some inspiration ! Andrew
Know that we cannot trust our feelings when we’re preparing for the future. Our feelings change by the hour, even the minute, so base your reasoning to practice on logic. As you’ve stated, you want to attend a music college. That is a good reason to practice! And it is logical that playing will help you advance. Set a time every day for practice and playing. It is easier if you keep that same schedule as much as possible so that it becomes a habit. Choose a day of the week on which you will reward yourself for practicing faithfully. Stretch yourself to go a little bit past the assignment if it is too boring. Use the skills you’ve practiced and found to be boring to go ahead and attempt to play something more difficult. Be easy on yourself. After all, it is PRACTICE… not performance. Robin
pretty much everyone goes through this when they start playing. the problem lies in the fact that you really can’t play all that much, and the little that you do know is not very interesting nor impressive. This will change with time, but time is what you must put into it. I’ve been playing forhte last 8 yrs and have seen some many of my Friends buy the $200 Squire strat package, messaround for like 3 months an then sell the guitar cause they lost interest.
I think of you playing ability like compound interest on a savings account.
when you first start off, you improve in very small incriments that are spread out. this is disheartning b/c you want to be melting peoples face’s off and yanking the hell out of the whammy bar right of the bat. doesn’t happen.
as you start progressing as a player you strt picking up and building techniques that will help you discovery new techniques. the more you play,, the quicker and bigger you improvements start happening. snowball effect.
its just hard for people to sit aorund for a yr or some mkaing awful sounds on a guitar while they practice. ccfuser
You need to find what inspires you. Skill is acquired by having a burning motivation which keeps you with something no matter what. Any Olympic athlete competes because of that fire, not just because they thought downhill skiing looked fun.
Why do you want to go to music college? Do you enjoy classical or would you rather be in a band?
With classical, you’re in for a long road unless you’re really moved by Bach. You’re 16, so you need to have guitar as a hobby. Watch the artists that inspire you. Find a song and make it a project for yourself. Scales etc, are tools to help build, but a house doesn’t design itself. You need to have a goal in mind and pick the tools you need to accomplish that goal.
Stephen Stephen