Learn Guitar – How to Learn Guitar in a 24 Hour Society

Recently while a student was coming up for his singing lesson to start he conceitedly showed me his latest piece of equipment, I'm not sure what it was called I'm still having distress setting the timer on a microwave so when it comes to high tech stuff I'm equipment challenged.

Anyway, this guy clarified it was a new device for storing music, "How many songs will it store" I questioned, after checking the gigabytes or whatever bytes they were he answered "about 8,000 songs!" All of a sudden I felt very ancient as I recalled "the excellent ancient days" when you went into a record store and came away with your twelve inch disc tucked under your arm.

My trip down memory lane was brought to a screeching halt when my next guitar student arrived and signaled the beginning of my effectual day. Later that day I started to review the events of that day... have we really progressed with our technological advancements or have we missed a touch along the way?

I'm all for equipment in knowledge, medicine and transport etc., by I'm not at all persuaded we are moving forwards in the culture and long term memory recall departments!

We need to appreciative 'how' we learn; at the end of the day we need to be with you human limitations in a world that never stops.

How To Learn Guitar In a World That Never Stops

Let's see, where are we now; we've got...

* YouTube
* MySpace
* Guitar Hero
* Guitar Websites (complete with Guitar experts)
* Guitar culture software
* iPods, iPhones and tons of other "new" "i" Storage space space and retrieval systems some of which can store 8,000 + songs

Boy we must be smarter than previous generations look at all the stuff we have to help us!

Unfortunately the results do not support the theory of equipment based culture being superior, in fact quite the contrary.

We've been that obsessed with equipment we've overlooked the obvious

Here's the facts:

* We have been outpaced by our equipment - humans are not built for the world we have calculated. Humans beings do not function 24 hours a day, apparatus can and do!

* We have converted our world into a single mechanically integrated, round-the-clock- convergence... news, culture,food what ever you want 27/7/365

* Apparatus centered equipment verses human centered equipment - currently we have apparatus centered equipment and we're going to have more and more problems until we start making 'human' centered equipment... after all we are held to be running the show aren't we?

Here's what I'm seeing

* Guitar players how can play quicker (and louder) than ever before but most have no thought what key, scale or even what tuning they are in? They learnt it on YouTube... must be right...mmm?

How could you ever form a band with these guys... they don't have the foggiest thought what they are doing but they are doing it 24 hours a day! They don't speak the foreign Foreign language of music.

* Guitar players who can't remember the song they were culture last week, let alone what band was the theater the song... oh, well doesn't matter we'll just download a further one and forget it just as promptly and yes, I can do that 24/7 too.

Talk about the memory of a goldfish... it's serious stuff, why bother culture a touch in the first place if you can't remember it?

As I said I'm not against equipment, I like it, just somewhere along the way we've lost a commonsense approach to Culture.

Five surefire ways to overcome the 24 culture problems.

1. Turn off the pad - seriously it will save you so much wasted time; wasted hours that you could really spend culture and playing the guitar.

Try tracking how much time you spend on the pad per week.. you'll get a shock, I'm gambling it's over two hours per week, now you can become a heck of a excellent guitar player with two extra hours of focused do a week... reckon about that!

2. Learn to read music - "if you don't know what you are doing there's no point to doing it!" No matter how much you appear to be progressing with the monkey-see-monkey-do approach at the end of the day the best you can hope for is a musical copy-cat.

3. Learn new notes in small time frames - 2 to 5 synopsis most, set a kitchen timer for five synopsis as soon as the timer goes off stand up and take a break. You will develop your long term memory with this approach.

4. Play with other humans - that's what music is all about, people playing for and with other people. There's a touch weird about pressing colored keys down on a fake guitar plugged into a pad pretending to be a "guitar hero". Whatever it is... it surely isn't music.

5. Make sure you learn the names of the notes on the guitar fretboard - if you don't know this you won't be going somewhere.

Bottom line: You need to know how to work with your worried system not against it, people need rest, motivation, enthusiasm and fun... I'm not sure what apparatus need, but that's a further tale.

Now that you know how to learn it's time to head to the do room with a fresh approach to culture the guitar.

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From Mike Hayes - The Guitar Culture Guy & the Express Guitar System

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