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If you have a lot of spare time on your hands and you find yourself lying on the couch, watching television all day long, it’s a good sign, that you could use a hobby. For one thing, you could do sports, for the other, you could read a book. In my opinion, a human being grows best under the influence of art, and one of the greatest branches of art is creative music. This article is on how to get into playing music and fast.

step one. Select your favorite instrument. There is a huge choice range – drums, key, brass and all kinds of string instruments. Guitar fits in the last group. It’s a perfect instrument for beginners, as it’s inexpensive. Due to the popularity, it’s easy to find a suitable guitar teacher and books. Finally – you can play anything on guitar. Even classical music and fast violin parts.

step two. Purchase a guitar that suits you. You have two options. Either buy one online (you can order one on Amazon) or buy the guitar at your local music store. The second option is recommended, especially if you don’t know anything about guitars. The store owner will help you make a right choice. You can ask your guitar playing friend to come along, too.

step three. Take some lessons. You could find a guitar teacher. It’s very efficient, yet expensive way of learning. Instead, you can buy some books or better yet, make use of vast video storage available on the web. There’s plenty of “do it yourself” videos on how to play guitar. Some of them were recorded by talented professionals. For example you can go on Google and type “Justin’s Guitar” to uncover one of the larges archive on the subject of playing guitar. All videos were recorded by Justin Sandercoe.

step four. Schedule your practice. Commit at least on hour a day for various exercises. Make time for warm up, basic chord and lick practice, playing covers from notes/tabs and by ear, and improvising. You should include these four sections in your regular practice. This way you can improve fast, and you develop the ability to compose, express yourself and play music the way you want to. Learning licks and chords is like learning words, improvisation is like putting words into sentences, and practice makes your technique clean/clear and understandable. Think of it as practicing grammar, if you like grammar, that is

step five. Start playing!

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