Learn Guitar By Numbers - What's Holding You Back

What's keeping you from learning the guitar? Do you not have enough time, are you not motivated, do you think it will be too hard, does being unorganized get in the way, do you think you don’t have the talent? I have no doubt each of these reasons has prevented prospective guitar students in getting started on their lessons.

Let's look at the obstacles one at a time. First, don’t have enough time. That excuse can be used to get out of anything. It boils down to this. If you want to do anything bad enough, you can find time to do it. It just has to be important enough to you. If you just can’t find the time, maybe playing guitar isn’t in the cards for you. If you really wanted to do it bad enough, you would most definitely find the time. I really believe that.

Are you not motivated enough? It’s true that you have to really want to learn how to play the guitar if you are going to stay with the lessons long enough to become the player you want to be. When making your decision, look inside your self and decide if you really have that fire that longs to be a guitar player.

Think about what your motivation is, what originally made you want to learn to play. If that reason is anything other than to be the best guitar player you can be, then maybe you don’t want it bad enough and the right decision is to leave it alone and put your time and energies into something you really do want to do. But you are the only one who can make that decision.

It will be too hard. Learning to play the guitar is not easy. It is physically and mentally demanding. But chances are the music you want to pay is what’s played on most radio stations on the Popular, Rock or Country charts. These types of music are all played by ear. There is no need to read traditional music and no massive amount of music theory to learn.My Learn Guitar BY Numbers Program cuts what you have to learn into a fraction of what classical musicians must memorize. You’ll see shortly.

Let’s look at the next excuse, you’re not organized enough. Now this one I happen to know an awful lot about. How do I know? Because I have been diagnosed as ADHD. If you know anything about ADHD, you know that people like us are extremely unorganized, never clean our rooms or anything else, lose everything and have horrible memories. I promise I will teach you how to get yourself organized so you will be successful with your guitar lessons. I promise.

I don’t think I have the talent. There are those who are blessed with so much talent they can pick up different instruments and play them almost instantly, but I do believe all but the totally tone deaf can learn how to play the guitar if they work hard enough at it. I have watched people who didn’t seem to have much talent become very good guitar players because they worked very hard at it and refused to give up.

I, for one, have had to work very hard to get to where I am today. It didn’t come easy for me. But I have been a professional musician for several decades now, and have toured with some of the biggest names in the music business, even played on the Grand Ole Opry. So it can be done.