One thing that many guitar players seek and try to achieve is perfection. They want to learn how to play every single piece of music out there and play it the best possible way they can on their precious guitar. Chances are that if you are a guitar player you ether feel this way now or you have felt this way before at some point in your music career. Let’s face it; we all wanted to be the next Jimi Hendrix at some time.

Although it is impossible for anyone to be perfect, and yes I am saying that Jimi wasn’t perfect, you can still become very good at playing the guitar. Anyone can become good at guitar no matter how bad your playing is right now. There is one thing that everyone needs to do if they want to become good at guitar, and that one thing is…Practice!

This saying is completely true. I like to refer guitar playing to a sport and the reason I do this is because both of these subjects are very much the same in many ways. In order to get good at both of these two things you will need to practice, and you will need to practice a lot.

Many famous guitarists have been playing the guitar for pretty much all their life. This is why they are masters of their instrument of choice. If you have been playing guitar for over ten years of your life I’m pretty sure you would be good at it too. As you can see a lot of athletes are like this too, and guitar players are no different than them.

You will need to practice a great deal if you want to become a better guitar player, but at the same time you need to know exactly what you should be practicing. This is where you need to make a practice schedule and write down a few things that you need to improve in.

The following is an example of what a practice schedule can and should look like for playing the guitar.

-          15min (warm-up) Warm up your fingers and ears

-          30min (Scales) Practice and learn new scales.

-          15min (Chords) Practice strumming chords

-          30min (Practice songs) Play songs that you know

-          30min (Practice Solos) Play some solos that you know

Now that is an example of what a good practice schedule on the guitar should look like. You should also include how much time you should be spending in each category. This way you can keep track of what you are doing and not go off task.

It is very important that you warm-up every time you go to play the guitar. Believe it or not but it is a very physical task to the guitar and if you do not warm-up your playing will suffer. You are also increasing your chances of getting a strain or injury in your muscles, so make sure you warm up before you play.

The last piece of advice that I am going to give anyone who is seeking to master the guitar is to have a great deal of patience. It takes years and years before you will become good at guitar. You just need to stick with it and keep going at it.

It also helps to remember that the more you point into this type of thing, the more you will get out of it. If you practice hard you will get far greater results then someone who does not practice as much.