5 Steps To Embracing Your Passion For Playing Guitar

The best guitar players are passionate about their craft, spending hours studying the instrument, memorizing the chords, and learning new techniques. Even when you’re feeling frustrated, maintaining that passion is essential! Read on as Upper Marlboro guitar teacher Bako A. shares his 5 steps to success…

There’s something special about playing guitar. For some, it’s the ability to make beautiful music. For others, it’s the challenge of learning a difficult skill. 

No matter what your reason for picking up a guitar, there are steps you can take to help you embrace your passion for playing. 

Here are five tips to get you started!

 Is Guitar Easy to Play?

Though some might view the guitar as a complex instrument, there are actually several reasons why it is easy to play. Here’s why:

• The guitar has a relatively small number of strings compared to other instruments like the piano. This makes it easier to learn chords and melodies. 
• A guitar can be played in a variety of styles, from country to metal. This means that there is something for everyone when it comes to playing the guitar. 
• A guitar is portable, meaning that it can be taken with you wherever you go. Whether you’re at home or on vacation, you can always pull out your guitar and play a few tunes. 

These reasons all add up to make the guitar an easy and enjoyable instrument to play.

Regardless of how difficult you think playing guitar with emotion is going to be, there’s no question about it – learning how to play guitar is an endeavor that’s worthy of your time. Sign up for guitar lessons today – and get an idea of what you might learn in your lessons by watching the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfZ64yEGPok 

How to Play Guitar With Emotion

Think of something that you enjoy doing. Maybe it’s shopping, or maybe it’s going to the movies. Whatever it may be it does not matter. So you have that in your head of what you like to do. Alright, put that aside in your brain for a second, and think about the guitar. I’m about to pump you up.

First of all: Playing guitar is all about expressing emotion and focusing on your initial flame of inspiration. Your life can change when you embrace your passions.

Passion is one of the key elements that drives people to do things. Just like your passion that you may have with (from before) shopping, or going to the movies, guitar can be one of those things too. The great thing about guitar though is that you are able to express yourself creatively. Here are the 5 steps to embracing your passion for playing guitar:

STEP 1: Spend time looking for an amazing guitar tone that truly inspires you!

A great guitar tone is one of the secrets to playing the guitar passionately, and having a tone that inspires you will make you want to play with passion.

STEP 2: Practice expressing different emotions with the same phrase!

Do you spend time practicing your emotions on the guitar? Basically you take a musical idea such as a bend or a vibrato and express various emotions on the same note. You can express love, anger, satisfaction, frustration, success, or joy on the guitar by practicing doing a vibrato on the same note. The only difference is the way you play the note.

By learning how to express your emotions on the guitar you will definitely become more experienced at the art of passionate guitar playing. When you learn to play guitar you can play songs that other people have written and play them your own style. Slow it down or speed it up. It’s all up to you, the player. When you are learning, make it your #1 objective to express emotions while you play. Keep this in mind every time you pick up the guitar.

Also, stop seeing the fretboard as a series of notes, fret numbers, and scale patterns. Start seeing emotions that you can express on guitar. By rethinking your current guitar player mindset to work with that of a “highly expressive guitar player,” you can become a music expression virtuoso! As you practice your musical expression more, you will see huge results in all areas of your guitar playing.

STEP 3: Become a master at understanding the degrees of scales and their sound!

If you want to make more money, lose weight, or buy a new item of clothing – you’re doing it because of what you think it will give you, which is a certain emotion. For example, you believe that by losing weight you will feel more confident. Or by attracting this type of person into your life, you will feel loved. Or by making a million dollars, you will feel happy. Even if you do not understand the theory behind the music, knowing the emotion and the feeling that a particular degree produces is the most important thing.

STEP 4: Use your body and facial expression to confirm your sound!

By expressing your sound through your guitar, with the help of body movement and facial expressions, you are often able to produce a stronger, more convincing tone. However, don’t overdo your facial expressions, otherwise you might end up looking silly – do it where it make sense! The truth is, if you involve your entire body in your guitar playing, your sound and tonal expression will most certainly be more convincing and effective.