How To Remain Focused When Following On-line Guitar Lessons for Novices

Picking Up the guitar on your own is rewarding, saves you the money you’d otherwise spend on an instructor and doesn’t tie you down to a timescale set by someone else.

As long as you can remain centered that is. We don’t all have the self discipline to follow a do it yourself course of study all the way through and might even be better off going to a teacher who marks our progression every week and heads us in the right direction.

I for one feel it hard enough and so I’ve come up with three sure fire ways to keep up that momentum and stay driven. They work well for me and if you want to {learn} to play guitar and keep some money in your pocket then read on:

1. Give yourself timescales and deadlines to study to. For example order yourself that you intend to be able to play that song all the way through, or the main verse, or the refrain, or that solo by the close of the week. Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t fulfill the deadline but still give yourself a reason to practice a certain amount each day until this goal is satisfied - then go onto another.
2. Do your scales, arpeggios, chord progressions and exercises first then play the song you’re on after followed by some messing about. It can get tedious exercising those all important exercises and very inviting to just skim them and move onto the fun part. Treat them like the green veggies you never wanted to eat up as a kid but had to if you wanted some of that nice sweet afterwards.
3. Observe your guitar heroes on video websites like Youtube, get everyday inspiration and also watch the song you’re exercising on being played. It can get lonely and frustrating when you’re developing your skills so watch your guitar idols and remember that they were where you are now and got to where they are by continuing on. 

These three methods are what keep me focused and conditioning my guitar skills when I could quite easily simply stop exercising those uninteresting scales and go and do something more fun. A plan and some direction will get you through the hard times and see you playing like a pro maybe even quicker than if you had paid out for a teacher.

Keep your eye on the prize, set down-to-earth goals, stay inspired and you will get there.

Peter Webber runs an fast-paced on-line guitar lesson course at his web site that focuses on how to use on-line resources combined with goal setting and achievement tools to produce a genuinely different experience for the budding guitarist.

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