The Importance Of Being Patient And Persistent In Learning The Guitar

Guitarists in general need to have patience and be persistent if they hope to grow over a long period of time. The instrument itself is well known to be difficult to learn, with occasional feelings of stagnation in your progress. Without patience, learners could get discouraged with repeated errors or frustrations without instant results. Adopting a sense of patience, students permit themselves to learn skills at their own pace – making sure every note, chord and technique is learned properly. The latter approach — the one utilized here — builds on rock and not on sand.

Persistence is patience’s sidekick, getting us to try to try again, even when the going proves slow. Guitar mastery is never gotten in leaps; it’s effect accumulative hours of dedicated practice. All students who work through the tough exercises, technical plateaus, and self-doubt emerge with resilience and flexibility. There are many other things about playing that improve you as a person and help teach you the instantaneous gratification is not how this game works, but those could possibly be transferred to life skills.

A patient, determined approach motivates learners to look at errors instead of glaze over them. Each mistake is a chance to improve tehnique, develop listening, work on coordination. Eventually, focusing on the details over and over leads to increased accuracy, quality of tone, and control. Guitarists can learn to build their confidence and relationship with the instrument by seeing practice as a road instead of an obligation.

And what’s more, patience gives students a chance to appreciate the nuances of musical expression. Intention over speed, not to mention dynamics, or phrasing, or emotional conveyance. By diligent practice, these subtlties are more secure and mechanical performance becomes artistic. Quality over quantity becomes a way of thinking and students understand that progress comes one deliberate act at a time.

In the end, it’s the perfect mixture of patience and persistence that leads to real guitar success. “We think of these practices as exercises in strength training for skill building,” says Judson Brewers, a psychiatry professor at the School of Medicine who studies mindfulness training. It’s a method that fosters both technical skills and an appreciation for the art of music, so that students not only learn tunes, but learn to taste, breathe and feel music.