It's the guitarist’s version of the sky-dive, the bungee jump, the cliff-hop, the free climb. Radical steps, like a 40 degree plunge pool for your guitar playing frame of mind. If you're serious about getting over this hump, its time to take some serious action to interrupt the pattern of safety and blandness in your guitar playing regime. I now understand how chords are constructed, but this only helps so much." So what to do? "I took the time to learn music theory which was good. Often players suspect their lack of music theory knowledge to be the culprit and launch into heavy sessions of music academia.įor some, this helps but for many it's ultimately another dead end, only briefly alleviating the symptoms of a larger problem. "I think I feel like this because I don't know much theory, I'm gonna learn some." You feel like you’re treading water because everything you play sounds alright, but in general, it's pretty bland.
#Stuck on you songster how to
You’re looking to improve but none of the things you did before seem to move you forward these days - it's like they’ve lost their effectiveness.Īs each day passes your passion and patience for practicing the guitar diminishes like that dark jazzy chord you didn't learn how to use yet. If you’re one of the guitar players trying to dig yourself out of a rut, this is a difficult time for you. Where's the magic? Stuck in a guitarists limbo of sameness and boredom
Oh sure, there are endless technical exercises for intermediates but something else is missing. The guitar teaching world seems focused on indoctrinating complete newbies and taking them to the point of nailing their first barre chords but very little beyond that. This "forgotten" tranche of guitar players are desperate to find something that will start them moving forward once again. Take a brief scan of guitarists comments on discussion forums and you'll see the majority of them have hit some kind of wall. It's a massive problem but not one that gets talked about much.
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