Why Is The Guitar So Hard To Learn?

The guitar is always seen as the coolest of all the instruments you can learn, and more and more people are trying to learn it now. The problem is that for some reason people think it will be easy to learn, they see only 6 strings and wonder ‘how can it be?’, well the answer to that is very hard!

First of all you need to get a good course to follow like the one discussed in this Jamorama review, or pay for lessons. Then you need to put in hours of practice every week (preferably every day) to actually get your fingers strong enough to form all the chords, and get used to them so you can move between them quickly enough to actually play a song properly. Plus you need to learn all about the theory side of music, beats, measures, scales, modal harmonies, you can’t just strum those strings any old way and have it sound good!

I think the biggest problem people have when learning the guitar is practice. They assume that after an hour they will be sounding good and can then build on that skill, except you will probably be buzzing the strings for the first week as you learn, then every time you learn a new chord you will struggle with it, so practice doesn’t always sound great, but it is necessary. Even just changing between chords is going to require hours of dedicated practice so you can actually do it fast enough to play a recognizable song, and it may takes months to do it for enough chords to play a small repertoire of songs.

So I guess I am saying that yes if you want to learn the guitar then it is cool, it is fun and you can do it, but go into the process expecting it to be slow and painful at first or you’ll just quit when you don’t get fast results.

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