I had been playing guitar for years before I started with the Next Level Guitar Lessons program. If I had already been playing for years then you are probably wondering why I would even need to start a course like this. The truth is that even though I had spent years playing guitar I never got real serious with it and I still wasn't very good.
It's sad to say but I was really not much past the level of "beginner" even though I had been playing for years. I couldn't even play a basic blues shuffle so you could say I wasn't even past that stage really.
My problem, and the problem that many people have, is that every time I would pick up the guitar I would just go through the motions playing the stuff I could already play. When you just play what you already play you don't really get any better because you're not learning anything new.
This seems blindingly obvious to me now but for some reason I never really picked up on it until I decided to get serious with my guitar playing and start using Next Level Guitar.
You should be learning something new every single time you pick up the guitar and with this course (and with any other good guitar lessons) that's exactly what you are going to be doing. You are always pushing yourself to the "next level" by doing something that is difficult to do.
And that's a really key point; if you find yourself spending a lot of time with your guitar playing stuff that comes easily to you then you aren't pushing yourself hard enough. It's important to always be challenging yourself.
I also recommend getting serious with ear training if you really want to be a great musician. A cool way to get started with ear training is to take an easy song that you know really well like "Row Row Row Your Boat or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and to play that song's melody on the piano. Listen closely to the intervals of the melody. Practice singing the melody with and without your instrument. You can sing the notes into a digital tuner to test yourself. This is also great practice for singing.
It's sad to say but I was really not much past the level of "beginner" even though I had been playing for years. I couldn't even play a basic blues shuffle so you could say I wasn't even past that stage really.
My problem, and the problem that many people have, is that every time I would pick up the guitar I would just go through the motions playing the stuff I could already play. When you just play what you already play you don't really get any better because you're not learning anything new.
This seems blindingly obvious to me now but for some reason I never really picked up on it until I decided to get serious with my guitar playing and start using Next Level Guitar.
You should be learning something new every single time you pick up the guitar and with this course (and with any other good guitar lessons) that's exactly what you are going to be doing. You are always pushing yourself to the "next level" by doing something that is difficult to do.
And that's a really key point; if you find yourself spending a lot of time with your guitar playing stuff that comes easily to you then you aren't pushing yourself hard enough. It's important to always be challenging yourself.
I also recommend getting serious with ear training if you really want to be a great musician. A cool way to get started with ear training is to take an easy song that you know really well like "Row Row Row Your Boat or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and to play that song's melody on the piano. Listen closely to the intervals of the melody. Practice singing the melody with and without your instrument. You can sing the notes into a digital tuner to test yourself. This is also great practice for singing.
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