Have you ever tried to take guitar lessons and ended up quitting in frustration, because he felt they were not making adequate progress? Or perhaps you've considered taking guitar lessons, but because someone had a disappointing experience with a guitar teacher, who began to doubt whether the experience is worth investing your time and money. This perception prevents you from getting what you want from your guitar lessons. There can be many reasons why people quit guitar lessons. Sometimes it is because the teacher did not inspire you, or because the lessons did not focus enough on their specific musical goals, or because the teacher was only mediocre and do not know how to help achieve a specific result. (To avoid this problem, download this free guide on choosing a guitar teacher) However, other (often misunderstood) reason could be that their own approach to guitar lessons, was not as effective as it takes to be in order for you to make real progress. After teaching thousands of music lessons to all types of guitarists and mentor of the guitar teachers worldwide on how to teach more effectively, I began to notice a similar and consistent pattern used by most students to learn to play guitar. I also noticed that the specific approach applied to students studying with a teacher had a direct influence on their progress. Very often 2 different people can get very different results, studying with the master of the guitar, because the way the students approached the learning process in general are very different. For example, a student believes that he knew better than the teacher about how to reach your musical goals and opposed some of the instructions of his teacher was giving him. Later it became very clear to him that he did not know better. The other student steeped in all that his teacher was instructing him to do and quickly became a world class virtuoso guitar. I found that there are 3 types of students who get frustrated easily with your guitar lessons. Reading the rest of this article, be honest and ask if any of these 3 descriptions sound like you. I'll be the first to admit that at some point I had the characteristics of each of the "conduct of students ineffective" presented below. Looking back, many years later, now I understand that one of the reasons why it took me so long as it did the master of the guitar (more than 20 years) was because of my own ineffective approaches to learning, when I started the trip. Something "Show me the new type of student today. You may think it's common sense that the guitar lessons that consist mainly of the presentation of new content, and we expect the main work of the master of the guitar is to show things that are "new" for you. However, if we examine this approach a little more, you'll have to focus "only" in the search for new information that will bring major long-term results. First, new content too quickly leads to overwhelm and burn (and does not allow enough time to apply the information you are learning). This feeling of overwhelm is what makes them feel frustrated and quit lessons (or, worse, stop guitar). Second, simply, "learning new things" does not lead to mastery. I have had many students come to me to do some good things on the guitar. For example, they may have good technique, or a good understanding of how the music to the ears, either. But more often than not, their ability to apply and integrate what they "know" to the music playback was very poor. At this point, "learn new things" not going to help these students to make significant progress on his guitar. Simply being "aware" of a concept is not enough. You do not really "know" something until it can implement and integrate with other musical skills with fluency. This type of training in applying and integrating what they know is probably the most valuable thing that comes out of music lessons and is an area of musical development that is almost universally lacks many guitarists. This results in massive frustration and disappointment that many experienced guitarists often (but often not understanding why they are frustrated). When you take classes for the first time, you may think it is great that your teacher shows you something new in each lesson. But if your teacher does nothing more than "show things", then as more lessons to pass, you begin to notice that you are not really making any significant progress (because implementation and integration is taking place). Most people get out of lessons at this point and continue to perpetuate the myth that guitar lessons are ineffective, without really understanding the true reasons for their lack of progress. The type of student who is just interested in learning new things, usually does not stick with guitar lessons for a long time. If a guitar teacher starts talking about a concept that students may already be familiar with the lesson that is perceived as a waste of time. Because these students may have heard of this concept on the other hand, believe that "already know". Of course, the new information they receive is a part of any complete lesson plan (and surely you will learn many new things, taking classes), but the order in which this information is, and how they are trained to use, implement and integrate that information that makes the guitar lessons with a good teacher so valuable. If learning "raw data" in a linear (and practice) was enough to become a great musician, then anyone could buy some books and after studying for a couple of years and practice their own as a guitarist well advanced. Of course, most often, this does not happen. The moral of the story here is to remember that you came to your teacher to learn and grow as a guitarist. For this to happen really have to have a little patience in the process and realize that sometimes when you think you know something, "and in fact may not really know yet to the point that you can apply and integrate with his other musical skills. "The Perfectionist" The next type of student wants to dominate every little thing the teacher is presented in a class (or to discover for themselves) before working on something else. While on the surface seems like a good idea, is far from being the most effective approach to becoming a great musician. Learning music is best done in a non-linear approach, which means that many things must be worked simultaneously and without stress all control over everything in a linear order. Find out more about why guitar players the typical linear approach often does not continue in this video about how to master the guitar. I liken the music learning to bake a cake. Do not make a cake with a batch of an ingredient at a time and finally put them together when everyone is ready. If the cake baked in this way, it will take much time to finish and most importantly the cake does not taste as good as where the ingredients are cooked together! The same applies to musical ability. If you wait until he became a teacher of great virtuoso technique before starting work (the domain) the theory of music before returning to write songs, and then switch to improvisation, it could take many decades to finally become really good and their performance is not likely to be integrated together. What I recommend is to follow a nonlinear approach (as described in the video above). When learning a new skill, do not expect to master it completely, just make sure you have the fundamentals down and immediately start looking for their application contexts. Then work on the integration of this new skill with everything else that you know how to do / play. Implementation and integration are the unique skills that must be practiced separately. This key link be allowed to pass "the student" that can "do many things" on the guitar, to become a great player who can use all his musical skills to achieve the full musical expression. This (nonlinear) approach will also prevent them from getting out of balance with their skills and at any level of musical development, which will be able to apply and integrate what you know. It is important to note that a "non-linear approach," not a "logical approach. So if you're looking for a systematic and logical approach to learning the guitar, you must understand that this systematic, geometric (nonlinear) the strategy is actually more effective, efficient and logical way possible. The challenger This personality type often seen in a player who has been playing for a while and has studied with guitar teachers in the past. This student can enter their first lesson full of preconceived ideas about what the experience should be, and the teacher dictate what and how to teach. I should clarify here that I am not talking about asking questions when they do not understand something or talk to your teacher about your goals. There is a difference between doing that and try to impose what and how teachers teach. If students knew much more about teaching the teacher, the student would be the teacher, right? If you know how to succeed in learning the guitar on his own and is really happy with her progress, without a teacher, then you may not 'I need guitar lessons. But if you seek the help of a qualified guitar teacher, this means that he realized that what they were doing on its own was not working as well as you wanted. Therefore, you must accept the fact (or at least highly likely) that your guitar teacher often knows more about the guitar and teaching guitar you do and can successfully teach playing well. (Otherwise, why would you give to the master of your money?) Of course not all guitar teachers are the same, and some are much more qualified to teach others. If you follow the advice I give the guide to choosing a guitar teacher, you're sure to find the best teacher for you. I always tell my students that, to receive the greatest benefit of working with me, it's your job to articulate to me with their specific goals and a list of music his musical challenges. Then it is my job to develop the most effective strategy to solve their problems and achieve their goals as quickly as possible. But for that to happen, they must have faith in me as a teacher, and undertake to advance together through the process of learning and training. My most satisfied and advanced students all followed that advice. If your guitar teacher and has created many great musicians, chances are, he knows what he is doing and be able to help you too. However, its ability to help will be limited (and the process will take much longer), if they constantly challenge everything that tells you to do. Again, ask questions about something you do not understand is normal and is part of the learning process. But the creation of general lesson plan is the primary responsibility of the teacher, not yours. If you recognize yourself as one of the types described above, think about your current approach to learning the guitar and change your thinking. On the surface it may seem like a small action to take, but the difference this can make your guitar may be greater than you ever imagined before! Want to know how to choose the right teacher for you? Download the free guide on choosing a guitar teacher
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