Be Your Own Guitar Teacher

I've heard it said that anyone who knows anything is self-taught. There's some truth to this statement.

The students of mine who are successful are the ones who take the information I give them and explore all of its possibilities and implications on their own time.

I have other students who come to their lesson every week, but show extremely slow progress. This is because they never take the next necessary step of exploring the guitar on their own.


Here it is: Analyze. Ask Why. Ask How. Do The Work.

The first step is to analyze your current skills. For instance, if you're working on chord voicings you could test your knowledge of a particular chord across all the strings and up and down the neck. This will make you aware of any gaps in your knowledge.

Now you're ready for step 2, ask why. Why are you struggling with chord knowledge. Do you not know all your inversions? Fuzzy on all the notes on all the strings? Take your analyzation a step further and get specific.


The 4th and final step is to do the work. Once you've found an area you need to work on, figured out why the problem exists and what to do to fix it, you simply have to follow through and do the work.


Of course, a great teacher can help you out with this process, but is not absolutely essential. Case in point...Guthrie Govan.





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