If you give your kids fun challenges, they can improve their skills.
Choose a song you like and let them perform it.
I would like to give you an approximate timeframe for your song, maybe 2-3 weeks. It will put them under some pressure.
After that time period, you may record their guitar performance, regardless of whether or not both of you are watching them. They can compare after a few months, and it will be an encouragement to them.
Additionally, it helps them begin building up a repertoire of songs that they can use to show their talent.
Getting your child to practise (secretly)
Have them perform and play when you have family to come round. Make it into a performance and a game.
See how many different ways they can play a song in different ways. Can you play it rock or reggae.
You can have them dress up and wear fun sunglasses. So it’s extra fun for them.
It can take weeks or even months to master a new chord.
The child’s fingers are sometimes on the string, but it continues buzzing.
It is impossible to ring the note out with such a buzzing sound.
If your child’s fingers aren’t growing properly, it’s usually because:
Not pressing the strings firmly enough
There is too much distance between the fingers and the fretline.
Even adults who are learning how to play guitar can find this buzzing noise frustrating.
Getting your child’s coordination to improve
As their coordination improves, a little buzzing is okay at first.
However, mentioning will help. Have you got any problems with your fingers? Is the pressure too difficult? Which fret do you use?
Keeping them in mind with little questions shows you care about them, willing to help them.
Every milestone should be recorded
Even after all these years, I never stop listening to the recordings that my parents made.
You can make a huge impact on your child’s mind by making videos of them playing.
Showing off is a favorite pastime for most children. Learn new chords, scales, or chord progressions. Obtain a recording.
Using recordings as a feedback tool can also be beneficial. You do not have to suggest that they correct their errors. They can spot their mistakes themselves.
Since I was eight years old, I’ve been interested in playing the guitar. The encouragement I received grew my passion even further.
My mother was behind me every step of the way even though I did the bulk of the practice. I was encouraged by her.
Playing my mother her favourite songs
Whenever I played her a song on my guitar, she would sing along to what I played.
It actually doesn’t matter now that some of my guitar playing wasn’t great, but she sang along regardless.
Children must see that you are genuinely interested in their success as guitarists. The joy they feel is the most beautiful thing you can imagine. Especially when they want your approval.
Review their session notes and encourage them to make improvements
For each lesson topic, the kids take notes as they go.
After each session, go over the notes with your child to help them remember.
In any case, 3 days have passed and they are forgetting everything they did.
It may be difficult for their notes to make much sense in the beginning. Especially in the beginning. They will also have trouble practicing.
You need to help them most of all, that’s what matters most. If you need separate assistance from your teacher, do so.
Talking to your child about notes. Your child will then understand that playing the guitar takes a lot of practice. It takes a lot of repetition. There is nothing wrong with that. It takes perseverance.…
Supportable parenting doesn’t require you to know much about music. It will benefit your child if you are able to help them learn guitar at home.
There is a possibility that the kid is passionate about music and guitar. It may be necessary to inspire him/her every now and then, just as with any other school subject.
Developing your guitar skills is something every player needs to do intentionally and consciously. You need to help your child work through the process if you want them to become better players.
The majority of the time, your child spends outside of the guitar teacher’s presence.
Neither children nor adults have the self-control or discipline of adults. Thus, you must guide them along the way to self-control and discipline.
Although practicing at school is important, playing the guitar at home is equally important.
Now that we have the guide, let’s figure out how we can help our little ones at home.
Read my next post to find out how my mother helped motivate me when I was eight to get me through learning to play the guitar.
How are you getting on with helping your child with their guitar playing?
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When you are getting started with learning the guitar. There are lots of things you need to think about… there are a few things that people often don’t think about though. Let’s think about these when you are getting started so that you can avoid some the road blocks that may come your way.
Remember to find good resources to help you get going with learning the guitar so it stays fun for you. So that you can enjoy the experience of learning.
Making space
Guitar is one of those great instruments that’s very Portable and Most people have one in their home and it’s easy to make room for in your life. But I would still recommend having a little space that’s dedicated for you to practice the guitar. It just makes it easier for you to get into the right zone when you’re practising. Instead of ending up practising in front of TV all the time, or thinking about the laundry or washing up when you can be focusing you enjoying the music instead.
The easiest way is to learn to play guitar is to get a good guitar teacher. Rather than try and figure it out yourself which you can do it just takes much longer the new form and end up with lots of gaps in your learnings. Phone that in mind different teachers of the losses to learning, see you might still end up with gas new learning, so it’s important to get a teacher who has experience in to help beginners Learn to play guitar.
Try and find testimonials for this guitar teacher and evidence that they’ve helped other students be able to learn as well.
Get friends to play with
If you don’t have friends to play with you could also get all the students to play with you. As music is a language is important that you communicate with other people as much as possible. Remember when you’re learning a foreign language or even your own mother tongue. How important it is to communicate with that language, and actually helps you learn much faster. It is the same with music!
So get jamming, even if it’s scary at first, the more you do it the easier it will get. …
Help your child to learn the guitar by motivating them in the right way.
One way is to praise them in a way that motivates them to work harder.
One way to do this is to give them simple observations. So instead of saying, You’re really playing off the beat they’re saying, I really liked it in the section where you played on the beat. Oh, instead of saying, Why do you have to play so loud is hurting my ears, say, I really liked it in the section, when you play the little quieter, because then I could really hear the nose ringing out. Just observe what they’re doing and comment on it is one way to give feedback to your child without criticising them. After all, if you’ve never done music before, how do you know that’s not how they’re supposed to be playing the piece.
Also, the more you criticise a child, the less likely they’re gonna want to share with you what they’ve been doing. And if practising guitar is such a big part of getting better at playing the guitar they might not want to practice around you anymore. And I’m guessing you live with your child.
So that means they won’t be practising very much at all. As soon as interest that they will lose interest in the instrument, because of it. That’s three praise your child on the effort that they’ve been pushing.One thing that a lot of parents do, is that they will go over the top the other way instead of criticising them, everything their child does they’ll say, That’s amazing. What great playing, that sounded wonderful. Now on the surface, it might seem like you’ve been supportive but actually has the opposite effect.
Psychologically, because your child will want to play things that sound wonderful to you all the time. They won’t want to try new things.
It seems counterintuitive that praising your child doesn’t motivate them. It’s important that you find ways to praise your child that encourages them to work harder and want to be curious and try new things.
In Part 1, we talked about how your ear can deceive you as you are starting to learn to play the guitar.
And also how if you don’t know what to play or practise. That it can be really demotivating when you try to learn by yourself.
What you can do to help
This is when having a guitar teacher can really help you, they can give you a lot of guidance and you want to find one that’s got a lot of experience with teaching complete beginners. Asked for testimonials for asked for asked to see other students that they’ve taught before and see how they’ve gone.
Getting Stuck on Barre Chords
If you’re a little bit more experience with playing the Guitar maybe about six months into it you might come across barre chords , where you hold down one finger and then a shape with the other few fingers and play five or more of the strings.
This is a point where a lot of people give up because of the position and tension that the carrying with their wrists and fingers. It causes a lot of aches and pains and it starts to make their guitar playing hurt a lot. And they don’t know what to do and it takes away the enjoyment of learning new songs and avoiding songs that might have barre chords in it.
Again a guitar teacher who has experience helping students with these type of challenges will know how to help you overcome them. I’ll be able to see where your fingers are at if they’re in the right position. They’ll be able to give you tips on how to practice so you can build strength gradually rather than diving straight into them. They will be able to give you exercises and the right song is a place to help keep you motivated.
Hopefully knowing these few things Will help you in your journey of learning guitar as a beginner guitar player.
If you are interested to know more things that will help you to become a better guitar player and have more fun. Then keep following this blog for more information! …
When you are first starting to learn to play the guitar there may be unexpected road blocks that come your way.
Many beginner guitar players start off with a less than ideal guitar that stops them some practising and progressing as fast as they could. We see many beginners who come to us with a cheap guitar or one that they have inherited and often times the strings of rusty stay hard pressed down. It might be the wrong size for them to play and they just sort of enthusiastic about playing it but they don’t realise it’s going to hold them back from practising a spot to stay would if they had a really nice guitar that they enjoyed playing.
Getting stuck because your ears aren’t developed enough
The other thing that a lot of beginners get stuck with is the ears. That might be a funny sentence but actually if you haven’t played a musical instrument before your ears might deceive you.
You might think your guitar is in tune and that it matches whatever app you using on your iPhone. But actually what you need is a tune on that clips onto your guitar and tells you exactly that your guitar is in tune.
Get the right guitar tuner
A lot of guitar players want their first starting out just use an app on the iPhone or try and match it to a sound they here and they see professional musicians doing the same thing. But the thing is when your ears aren’t trained they can deceive how your hearing your guitar and the sound it is making.
Not sure how to learn the guitar
Often times beginners get stuck after the first month to 3 months of learning the guitar and that’s because they don’t know what to do to learn to play the guitar. If you think about learning to perform high surgery or learning to swim might be a better example. You can kind of paddle around by yourself for a few months and enjoy the process and enjoy the exploration, but after that you often get stuck and don’t know where I should go from there.
You can’t see what you’re doing yourself you don’t know how you’re sitting if it’s correct you don’t know where to put your fingers instead in the correct positions. You wondering why your guitar playing doesn’t sound anything like this song, and in the beginning, it was okay he just thought it was you starting to learn to play but after three months, you’re wondering why your guitar playing still sounds nothing like the song you’re trying to play.
If you are interested in how to fix it, stayed tuned for Part 2! …
When your face was your first jamming session it can seem very intimidating. Especially if you’ve done the preparation a new practice for your fans jam session. So if you know you’ve got a jam session coming up here are a few tips and tricks just picked up prepared so that you can feel slightly more confident then extremely nervous at your first jam session.
First of all, what is a jam session?
A jam session is so good when a group of musicians set round the circle (well it doesn’t have to be a circle) and play music together bouncing ideas off each other to a rhythm I normally staying within the same Musical idea.
As a beginner guitarist it can be difficult to follow along. So here are some ideas on how are you can get prepared so if you are interested in jamming with other people and play with other musicians it’s a little less scary.
1.) learn the communication of music
Music is another language and therefore you need to learn how to communicate with it. The basic of music language is music theory. But it’s not enough to know music theory. You need to know how to apply it on your guitar!
So when someone at the Jam session says, let’s play it in Am instead. Or let’s change to 3/4 rhythm. You know what they are on about!
On top of that, people will go on about being play scales on the guitar. And that’s kind of useful… But just knowing how to play the scales is not enough. You need to understand them musically so you can jam.
For some people, they don’t need to know scales… and just play by ear. And if that’s you, that’s great! But still understanding how to communicate with other musicians is very important.
2.) Practice improvising on guitar at home
You can help to prepare your musicality to have it ready for Jam by practising at home first. This can include practising over a backing track. I’ve attached an example below for you to see.
You can also practise different genres, different rhythms, different areas of your guitar neck to improvise over to help you prepare.
3.) Have a guitar teacher help you
Find a guitar teacher help you get ready. It can be less intimidating to play a jam in a classroom set up with other students. Or with your guitar teacher.
When you are in a room with other students, learning to jam together. It can be a lot more relaxing, and a lot better learning experience. Because everyone is in the same boat! Learning alongside you. It gives you a lot more opportunities to make mistakes, get feedback. Compared to being in a real life jam session. This is true of any level of guitar player, whether you are a complete beginner or experienced guitar player.
The more opportunities you get to play with other people, the easier it will be! …
When learning guitar, you have the option of choosing a physical or online tutor. Depending on a number of reasons, you could choose either of the options. One thing that is becoming popular is online learning. Thanks to the internet, that has made things simple and easy.
Both ways have their benefits and downsides. Like for instance, online classes give the convenience of learning that can’t be compared with physical training. However, the benefits of having a trainer you can talk to as you train are something else.
This article shares with you the top reasons why you should consider physical guitar lessons over online lessons.
You Get To Interact With Your Trainer
As a beginner in guitar, the first thing that you need to consider is having an interaction with your trainer. Physical interaction will give you a sense of learning that you can’t get from online lessons.
And if the trainer has other students, then you get to interact with them. You network with other learners whom you can practice together or challenge each other to grow together in learning the skills.
This is something that’s rare to find with most online platforms. This is because most of the online lessons have pre-recorded videos. There are no learner-tutor interactions.
Customized Training
When learning with a physical trainer, you get the rare opportunity to get a customized lesson. Depending on the level of your learning or understanding of the guitar, you’ll get specific lessons that apply to you.
For instance, if you’re in advanced level and missed some critical lessons in the beginner, the tutor can notice it. And as you train at your level, they’ll include lessons that they feel are important to your situation. In the end, you’ll have the best lesson that serves your specific needs.
Online lessons are standard. You can’t get customized training. This can be to your disadvantage if the trainer overlooks some of the basic lessons that seem obvious to everyone, but you’re struggling with them.
You Get Real-Time Assessments
One critical area in learning is assessment. You need to check what you’re doing time over time and measure your learning progress. Assessment is personal. And that’s what a physical trainer will do for you. The trainer is there with you through your learning journey.
As you make mistakes, they can notice them in real-time and correct them. This is unlike online classes where there is no one monitoring or following your learning progress.
You Can Ask Questions and Get Immediate Response
Part of learning is asking questions. And there is nothing good than getting immediate feedback for your questions. And that’s why physical trainers are better. Because they are there to answer questions as they arise.
Parting Shot
When learning guitar, you have an option to choose an online or physical tutor. If you can afford and have time, then a physical trainer will give you more value.
