People like things that they are good at.  

Learning guitar is about getting good at guitar. If you suck at guitar, you won’t enjoy it. The hard part about starting guitar is that everyone sucks at the beginning. So how can we learn to stick with guitar?  

If you want to stick with learning guitar, you must learn how to practice, which sounds boring. People want to jam with their friends, play on stage, or make cool music. But you must learn how to play the instrument before you can do those things.   

There are three things that will make your guitar journey successful.   

1. Consistent Practice  
2. Feedback  
3. Achievable Goals  

Consistent Practice  

Practicing Consistently requires some sort of accountability. This can be self-accountability, or you can have a person hold you accountable.   

If you choose to hold yourself accountable, write down what you are going to do each day. We recommend doing 30 guitar actions every day. This could be chords, strumming, or easy songs. 

You will also have to decide what you are going to remove from your life to practice guitar. You can watch less tv, play fewer video games. Maybe wake up 20 minutes earlier. But you must decide on something to remove. Because we all have 24 hours a day that we already spend. What do you remove to add guitar? 

It is also way easier to be consistent with practicing if the guitar is accessible. If the guitar is put away, it could take 5-10 minutes to get the guitar out, grab your stuff, and tune it. This doesn't count as practice. But if it's out, you can grab the guitar, tune and play it.  

Finally, you want a clear picture of what consistent practice looks like. If someone tells you to practice for 15 minutes a day, that’s vague.  

What are you supposed to practice?  

What happens when you mess up?  

Or What can you do to get better? 

Here is a more specific goal. Practice playing each chord you learned 30 times a day. If you don't play the chord correctly, it doesn’t count towards your goal. 

Remember, 30 actions a day will help you stick with guitar. (This should take 15-20 minutes).  

Feedback  

Getting feedback on guitar is important. You progress so much faster when you know what’s going wrong. 

You can take private lessons, an online course, or film yourself playing. The last option is the hardest as a beginner. But if you can’t afford the other option, it is better to hear yourself through a recording than have no feedback   

The better you get, the more important recording yourself becomes. 

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Achievable Goals  

Finally, you need to set goals. These goals should stretch you but be achievable. Your first goal should be to play 3 simple songs in 3 weeks. You could do Mary Had a Little Lamb, Batman, and When the Saints Go Marching In. Play Each Song 30 times a day for 1 week. You will have them down in 3 weeks. (Probably Faster)  

The next goal is to learn how to play 4 chords. Ed Sheeran talks about how pop music mainly uses 4 chords. You can learn those chords and play almost every song.   

The chords are Em, C, G, and D. Play all four chords 30 times a day for a week or 2.  

Then look up your favorite song to see if it's in the key of G or Em. If it is, learn it. If not, skip for now and come back later. 

Remember there are 3 important things for learning guitar:  

1. Consistent practice  
2. Feedback  
3. Achievable Goals  

If you work on these things as mentioned above, the chances that you will stick with guitar go up.  

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