11 Tips For Healthy Guitar Practicing

Learning a guitar takes time, but with regular practice, anyone can learn it to perfection. The basics of playing guitar are very easy to learn, and you can take your playing to perfect levels with practice.  The habits you build in the beginning stages of your practice will stick with you till you play guitar in your life.

If you begin with the correct styles and habits, you are sure to reach the levels or perfection where you can play for any type of song or music. So, check out these tips to make your guitar as effective as possible.

Holding the guitar

The first step in learning a guitar is holding it correctly in your hands. If you are a right-hand person, you should hold the neck of the guitar with your left hand. Put your right hand in the middle of the sound hole and the guitar bridge. Align the neck of the guitar at 45 degrees with the vertical position of your body and hold the back of guitar so that it touches the right side of your abdomen.

Hold the pick correctly

Holding the guitar

The pick is a tiny device used to play the strings of a guitar. It is essential to hold the pick correctly to play the guitar comfortably and produce the required tones. Hold the pick between the thumb and fingers of your dominant hand, so that the skinny point faces towards your body. A tiny part of the pick should stick out of your fingers.

Playing the chords

Playing the chords

An essential part of playing guitar is playing the chords. You need to practice playing the chords until you produce even notes without any highs or lows. The best way is to start with the first position chords that you need to play between the first and third fret. Using a few first position chords, you can play the tones for pop, country, and rock genres.

Playing the Barre chords

They are also called the power chords, and you can make them by positioning the same finger at different frets. For example, one can make a G chord in the 1st position or by making a barre chord at the third fret.

Find the buzz point

Play the strings, so light with your left hand that the notes buzz due to not playing hard enough. Then press enough to make the buzz disappear from the notes. When you squeeze harder than the point on which you have just made the buzz disappear, you need to warm up daily to repeat finding the “just enough point” for not to buzz. Squeezing beyond the just enough point” would be a waste of energy and might lead to an injury.

Practice to a beat

Most players play the guitar to different songs as they want to play with speed. But playing steadily with feeling to a song is the key to achieve perfection in guitar. Practicing to a beat enables a player to play the notes he or she can see not the ones he/she can play. It is crucial to develop a sense of rhythm to achieve perfection in your playing.

Practice Scales

The guitar training academies offer you scale sheets that you need to learn and practice. However, the self-learning players need to find the scale and practice them while playing. If you are learning to play the guitar yourself, you can search and download the lesson and scales to practice them, but it is beneficial to learn from an instructor.

Make your practice fun

Make a decision for learning playing the guitar on a new song for every new scale or page of your learning book. It is best to learn playing for the type of genres you want to learn instead of spending your time learning unwanted songs. If you are learning from a teacher, you can ask them to help you to play for the songs you want to learn.

Create a practice schedule

Create a practice schedule

As every new field, whether it is learning a guitar or martial art, requires practice to learn. You need to spend sufficient time daily to learn to play guitar. Therefore, it is best to create a practice schedule to organize your time and regularity. It will help you to provide real-time to your learning.

For example, if you work in a job and have a family, you won’t have sufficient time. It is better practicing 15 minutes daily than to schedule a three hours session in a single day and none for rest days in a week. If you have spare time, you can practice for hours in a day, but you should be realistic regarding the practice time.

Skill building and fun activities

As a beginner, you need to learn the basic skills first, while professionals can practice more fun. It is best to create a balance between what you need to learn and what you want to learn while playing the guitar.

For example, if your teacher instructs, first to practice scales on a mini guitar and you want to learn to play on your favorite song, you should practice the scales first. As you develop your skills on scales, you can practice learning on any song you like.

Practice and learn from others

A person cannot be perfect by playing the guitar alone. You should learn from other professionals. Many professionals offer online lessons on video platforms like YouTube. After learning the necessary skills, you can follow a professional to learn the advanced lessons.

It is also essential to play your guitar in groups with experienced players as you can learn many lessons from them. The positivity and collective energy help a player to learn more and achieve the next levels of learning guitar.

Final words

Learning a guitar is an art. The more you practice playing guitar, the more you learn. Learning playing guitar is a never-ending activity, and the tips in this post can help any beginner to learn the guitar from the basics.

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