When will I be good at guitar?

Question:The best way to improve is to practice daily.

But practice can be more efficient if you focus it - some of it should go towards learning the fundamentals, some of it should go towards learning the technique, and some of it should go towards learning an end product.

What I mean by that is that some time should be spent practicing chords and scales. This is fundamental to the music experience - you start to train your fingers and your ears to coordinate certain sounds with certain movements (melodic and harmonic development, in other words). Some time should be spent with your technique - focusing on playing each note of a chord cleanly and precisely, playing chord changes to a metronome (mechanical development). Finally, spend some time learning something you can have fun with, a finished product - a song, a solo, a cool riff.

By focusing your practice like this, even if you only spend a few minutes on each every day, you become a player who begins to know what his music should sound like, how to play it cleanly and professionally, and finally have something that you can show off with to your friends.

Honestly, I wasn't very dedicated when I first started. I'm still not very dedicated. It's taken me a decade to really become a halfway decent player. All that pot smoking didn't help a bit, either. Lesson - drugs don't make you a better musician!

Luckily, I got into a band almost two years ago. It really kicked my rear end musically, and challenged me to improve. As I like to say - I may not be good at leads (yet), but I can jump around on stage playing odd-meter jazz-time signature riffs like it's no one's business. It's an amazing feeling of release... two shows ago I got so into it I actually tripped over myself and fell, somehow missing the lead singer and his vocal processor on the floor, and ended up on the floor staring up at the ceiling thinking "ow ow ow" - still playing in time. Good times. =)

So... the question is if you are motivated. Are you? How badly do you want it? I joined up with this band and said to myself that this was my chance - do or die. So what would kick you in the rear end? Try recording yourself. Try finding a band. Try finding someone to jam with. Try getting a teacher. It's amazing how motivated you get when you start paying someone else to teach you. =)

Good luck. It took me a few years to get anywhere, but that's because I didn't really motivate myself to practice. I hope you can find that motivation.

Saul

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The best way to improve is to practice daily.

But practice can be more efficient if you focus it - some of it should go towards learning the fundamentals, some of it should go towards learning the technique, and some of it should go towards learning an end product.

What I mean by that is that some time should be spent practicing chords and scales. This is fundamental to the music experience - you start to train your fingers and your ears to coordinate certain sounds with certain movements (melodic and harmonic development, in other words). Some time should be spent with your technique - focusing on playing each note of a chord cleanly and precisely, playing chord changes to a metronome (mechanical development). Finally, spend some time learning something you can have fun with, a finished product - a song, a solo, a cool riff.

By focusing your practice like this, even if you only spend a few minutes on each every day, you become a player who begins to know what his music should sound like, how to play it cleanly and professionally, and finally have something that you can show off with to your friends.

Honestly, I wasn't very dedicated when I first started. I'm still not very dedicated. It's taken me a decade to really become a halfway decent player. All that pot smoking didn't help a bit, either. Lesson - drugs don't make you a better musician!

Luckily, I got into a band almost two years ago. It really kicked my rear end musically, and challenged me to improve. As I like to say - I may not be good at leads (yet), but I can jump around on stage playing odd-meter jazz-time signature riffs like it's no one's business. It's an amazing feeling of release... two shows ago I got so into it I actually tripped over myself and fell, somehow missing the lead singer and his vocal processor on the floor, and ended up on the floor staring up at the ceiling thinking "ow ow ow" - still playing in time. Good times. =)

So... the question is if you are motivated. Are you? How badly do you want it? I joined up with this band and said to myself that this was my chance - do or die. So what would kick you in the rear end? Try recording yourself. Try finding a band. Try finding someone to jam with. Try getting a teacher. It's amazing how motivated you get when you start paying someone else to teach you. =)

Good luck. It took me a few years to get anywhere, but that's because I didn't really motivate myself to practice. I hope you can find that motivation.

Saul

You don't give much to go by.
There are few things that might help people answer, like;
1) do you have a guitar?
2) do you practise it regularly?
3) do you have guitar lessons?
4) How long have you had your guitar/lessons?
5) do you play any other instruments?
6) can you read music?
7) do you have any natural talent for music? If not, are you determined to succeed?

You haven't given any clues at all, so no-one can answer your question.

When you get off your computer and start practising.

I started playing guitar when I was 14. Practise hand positions and rhythm every day. After one week you will start to notice improvements. After a month, significant improvements.

Once you have the basics, it is up to you how long it takes you.

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If you have to ask, then you may never find the answer. You have to tell yourself that you are going to be great, and work up to it. When your fingers are killing you, and you fall asleep with the guitar in your lap, then I'll say that you're serious about learning. Been playing since the 60s.

Learn many of the scales. Then chords in all positions. Listen to the styles of your favourite guitarists and try to sound like them. Practice once a day. Make love to your guitar.