Adults Learning Guitar
What is the best way for an adult to learn guitar?
Adults often appreciate music more than children do and the social, mental, and physical elements of playing an instrument have more meaning to adults as well. Although children are the ones who usually have the time and stamina to practice and learn, adults are more eager.
Adult guitar students are best served by taking weekly 30-60-minute private lessons with an experienced teacher. Practicing for at least 20 minutes every day will help as well. All things considered, this isn’t a burdensome time commitment, and you will learn how to play the guitar rather quickly.
Practice is important
You will not improve if you don’t practice regularly at home. The skill of your teacher won’t matter at all if you don’t practice. In your lessons, your teacher will give you specific instructions and materials to work on at home. If you follow these guidelines, you will see rapid and speedy progress., If you don’t practice, you won’t see any improvement at all.
If you don’t have much time to practice, it’s not a problem. In the early stages of playing, even 15 minutes of slow, mindful practice per day will yield significant results. As you improve, and as your music and practice material gets more advanced, you will need more time to get value out of your practice.
Learning just a few chords
If you purchased an acoustic guitar and want to play for fun, you can reasonably expect to teach yourself enough chords to play along with folk songs and read tabs. If you have prior musical experience, you will be fine on your own as long as you are enjoying this very basic level of playing.
However, if you have no prior experience, you will save yourself a considerable amount of time and frustration be enrolling in private lessons. You will waste countless hours searching online for the right tutorial videos. If you don’t already know how to read notes, count, understand guitar tablature, and more, you’re missing out on quite a bit.
How to learn as an adult
Whether you are starting from scratch or have a foundation of guitar playing experience already, you will learn more quickly and holistically from a guitar teacher. If you want to play jazz guitar, you will need to familiarize yourself first with the blues, then the various jazz modes and theoretical elements of the genre. You’ll need someone to help you learn jazz scales, arpeggios, and common licks. Rock guitar has its own languages and whether you are learning advanced techniques or simply getting power chords under your belt, you would benefit from a teacher.
Get started with lessons at the David Joel Guitar Studio
Working with a teacher is the best way for an adult to learn the guitar quickly, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t supplement lessons with other materials. Speak with your teacher about methods, apps, and other media that could help you learn more quickly.