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postheadericon Tips to Start Playing Guitar

1. Put your guitar away for a while. Take a moment, just relax and consider it for a minute, if you stop playing guitar for let’s say a week or so, when you pick it up again you will have this need to start practicing again and that’s good, it will be as if you a recharging batteries.

2. Listen to a different type of music. Let’s say that you are into punk music, then listen to some country, blues or some jazz guitar players and when you listen to a song that you like, try to play it reading tablature or if you know how to read music, look for the music sheet for that particular song.

3. Look for new scales to practice on your guitar. Now that you are expanding your horizons, try to learn a couple of scales of blues and jazz, and this will be good for you to get your fingers get faster, and you are going to get a better idea to start making up awesome solos on your guitar.

4. Have your Metronome ready. Now that you are trying new scales on the guitar, use the metronome to play them and start gaining some speed on your hands.
5. Find your role model. Start looking around for videos of your favorite bands, the feeling you get from watching them on stage is the fuel you need to start working on your guitar skills right away.

These are just a couple of ideas that you can start using to take your guitar playing to a new level. Take a cup of coffee, think about it and do the right thing, do you want to be like everybody out there that only learn how to play a couple of songs or do you want to explode your full potential? Think about it, good luck my friend.

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