Learn Acoustic Guitar - How Teaching Myself To Play Guitar Turned Into a DIY Disaster

Why didn’t anybody tell me this when I was teaching myself to play guitar?

Trying to teach yourself to play guitar can seem like a lost cause. Spending hours alone in your room struggling to change between the ‘easy’ chords or getting frustrated at your complete lack of rhythm.

It’s hard to understand why your strumming sounds so bland and monotonous compared with the music you hear on the radio.

When I got my first guitar I was so excited. This was it – the beginning of something special. I knew I had the will power and drive to master my new instrument and I was willing to put in the work.

I was determined to teach myself to play guitar but I was about to hit a major roadblock:

• I was struggling to tune the guitar and make it sound ‘right’
• I didn’t know what scales were or how to practice them.
• I couldn’t get the hang of strumming and my rhythm was terrible

When I look back at it now I realize I didn’t even know where to start.

The problem was I wasted so much time messing around trying to find the easy way to learn guitar that the situation began to look hopeless.

After months of wasted time my fingers hurt like heck, practicing seemed like work and my dreams of playing killer solos and mind blowing riffs were fading fast.

So how did I turn this miserable situation around and teach myself to play guitar?

Well, after several months of wasted time, energy and cash I learned several important lessons.

Here are the big 3:

1. Get a good guitar for yourself. By starting to learn on a good guitar you can save you months of wasted time and effort. The one really big mistake I made when I first started was buying a cheap guitar.
2. Decide what you need to learn and stick with it. Have a plan and follow it. When you continuously change your focus you never get anything done.
3. Learn to do things the right way. If you spend night after night practicing the wrong things bad habits will form and you will never get rid of them.

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