2006-07-12 10:24:40 · 11 answers · asked by Cookie777 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
Find someone to practice with. Also try to make up your own music instead of learning someone else's. Play to make yourself happy instead of learning to mess up something written by another. I have never played any music but what I make up, after 30 years I have lots of fun and can entertain with original music. Good luck...the more you practice the better you will get. You will reach points where you feel you have hit a wall, that is when you have to try harder. Don't ever give up.
2006-07-12 10:33:39 · answer #1 · answered by joetheway 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think you're asking the wrong question. The right question is why are you not enjoying practicing the guitar? You should love playing the guitar and learning more. Yes, I'll admit that practicing scales over and over can be a bit annoying. But, that's like 10 minutes out of an hour or two of practicing. So, maybe, you need to determine if you actually like playing the guitar. Maybe another instrument would be better. Are you taking lessons? Maybe your teacher is bad. Maybe you need to take lessons. Again, ask why you aren't enjoying it and then you'll have your answer.
2006-07-12 20:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by skinny0ne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hold the guitar at the neck with both hands, strings facing up in front of you. and smash it against your head a few times. you will start to feel the enjoyment of wanting to play the guitar. if you do not feel this after 5 hits over your head and your guitar is still intact, go to the nearest 5 story building and throw it off the roof. make sure that when the guitar lands, it lands on the back and not on the strings. Dont **** this up!
2006-07-12 18:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See the instrument more as a thing that produces sound rather than a bunch of frets where you need to know cords for to play it...buy some stompboxes to have a broader palette of sounds...start a band where everything is allowed soundwise...a punkband for instance needs only three cords and off you go...make some noise...ventilate that way or practice with a fellow guitarplayer/friend and keep it simple...who wants to hear a thousand notes per second solo anyway...thats just posers in the way...i got the biggest dick but is not interesting...play along with record but play an additional part in it...stuff like that...smoke a joint before you practice...need any more advice?
2006-07-13 04:24:33 · answer #4 · answered by Dr Benway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set goals that are easy for you to achieve ("I will play tonight for X amount of time" or "I will learn a new song by next week") and record them on a tracking chart of some sort or another. (You can do this in Excel or Access or you can just do it by hand on notebook paper, it doesn't have to be fancy.) Every time you complete a new goal, mark it off....after completing some number (five, maybe) give yourself some sort of reward.
2006-07-12 18:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by missstevi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find some friends who also play. They don't have to be at your level or they could be more advanced. The point is you get to trade licks with others and learn new techniques as well as arrangements.
2006-07-14 05:18:31 · answer #6 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give yourself incentives. Say "if I practice an hour tonight, I'll reward myself with an hour of (insert something you enjoy here)."
2006-07-12 17:44:45 · answer #7 · answered by wanderklutz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Play music you are interested. But, first make sure it is something you love and want to do.
2006-07-12 20:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Alex R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
find a song you like and learn it. play the song while you play the song.
2006-07-12 17:31:46 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it depends how you see yourself in the end.... how about practising at the park or by the beach?
2006-07-12 17:28:38 · answer #10 · answered by Night Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋