Carlos Montoya sitting on floor with four guitars by Walter Albertin, Public domain
Do you like to be judged on how well you do on your hobbies? Do you like to be graded on things you do to pass the time? If you’re like most people, the answer is no.
Then, why do so many beginners make the mistake of making extremely judgemental guitar goals for themselves? Why do so many of them want to "be good at guitar?" That won't end well.
No doubt, ridding ourselves of judgements is paramount to making guitar more fun in the long run. Lucky for you, the rest of this post will help you get rid of them forever. Let's kill it judgements altogether.
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Deadline-based guitar goals imply that if you don't finish your goal by your deadline, you have failed and wasted your precious time. This is bad news for learning guitar.
Deadline based guitar goals make learning super difficult, and it's worth your time to get rid of them altogether. Thankfully, the rest of this post will help you do just that.
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When most of us think about setting goals, we think about setting achievement-based goals. These are goals like, "I want to learn how to play five songs."
Achievement-based goals are clearly defined and they can help us measure our success, but it depends on how emotionally attached we are to achieving them: The more we need to complete the goal, the harder a struggle to learn guitar we will have.
This post goes over some very common achievement-based guitar goals that beginners make for themselves, and how to make them stronger. Let's hit it.
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The big reason why you picked up a guitar is important: It's your top guitar goal. I find it very odd that most beginners haven't articulated their top guitar goal, considering the implications.
If this top guitar goal is riddled with the worst infectious disease of learning, if it's completely surrounded with the biggest enemy to practicing guitar, you are in for a world of hurt.
What is this disease I speak of? Urgency.
This post was written to shine a clarifying light on urgency. I want to help you get rid of it forever. Let's jump in.
Read MoreIf you've never picked up a guitar before, if you’re a complete newbie and want solid information on how to learn, you're in the right place. Foundations of Guitar was designed to be one of the most useful, clearly written, and valuable guides to learn guitar from scratch.
Foundations of Guitar encompasses over 150 topics written and filmed to help beginners learn the absolute fundamentals of guitar. Each blog post will include a full text writeup as well as a video, and many of them will have high-resolution photographs as well as well-designed graphics, too.
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