Does guitar practice seem more like a chore than something that you genuinely enjoy doing? This is a bad sign, and will only lead to slower overall progress... here are the two reasons why: 1. You'll practice guitar less whenever you feel bored. As a result, you will make progress very slowly. 2. If worse comes to worse, you will end up not practicing at all, and maybe quitting guitar altogether. No doubt, this would lead to a massive decline in your guitar skills. A great way to make guitar practice fun is to consistently track your progress. This simple (yet extremely important) action will benefit you in these ways: 1. You become much more focused as you practice. To start tracking your progress, you'll need to first create goals to work towards. This will help you get better at guitar much faster because it gives you something to compare your current level to. 2. You begin competition against yourself to get better results. When you track your musical progress consistently, it becomes like a game to see how much results you can get every week. Think about playing a game, but never bothering to keep score... it wouldn't be as exciting would it? With that in mind, this is precisely what most guitarists are doing by not tracking their progress. 3. You will feel massively motivated to improve at guitar by getting feedback on your playing every single week. Once your guitar practice begins yielding tons of results, the entire process becomes extremely engaging. Naturally, when your practice is fun, you make more results... leading to even greater overall progress! 4. Your confidence for becoming a better guitarist will skyrocket. By having a positive attitude towards becoming a better player, you plant the seeds for your musical future. Follow These Eight Steps To Make Fast Progress On Guitar: Step 1: Look over the musical goals you have set for yourself, then think about the skills you will need to acquire in order to achieve them (this is something that a guitar teacher will help with). Step 2: Locate all the best exercises that will help you attain these skills as effectively as possible (you will need to determine HOW to practice these exercises as well). Remember, not all exercises come in the form of physical things you must play on guitar - you may also need to find exercises that help you better understand music theory, improvisation, fretboard memorization, etc. Step 3: Achieve your largest goals in less time by first determining smaller, short-term goals that will help you along the way (until you finally get to where you want to be). Step 4: Practice the exercises you chose for short lengths of time, such as one week. Step 5: Next, see how much progress you have made towards achieving your goals from step three above. If you need to test skills that are technique related, employ a metronome. Otherwise, you will need to assess your progress using a much more specialized approach (discussed below). Step 6: Create and update a chart that displays your progress, so that you know how much progress you've made over the past week. This is the "score-keeping method" that makes getting better at guitar like a game. Step 7: Determine if you need to adjust your guitar practicing routine, by observing your progress. By doing this, you ensure that you make progress every week. Step 8: Repeat steps four through seven for all of the short goals you have. Eventually you WILL reach your bigger goals... and do so, in much less time than you ever could've imagined! If you want to make this process even smoother and easier, use a tool that will track everything for you with the most precise assessments for analyzing all aspects of your guitar playing.
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