Playing Guitar is Kids Stuff
Learning anything—whether it’s your ABCs, tying your shoelaces, playing baseball, swimming, or playing guitar—depends on practice. How well you perform any task depends on how effectively you train your brain, mind, and muscles.
Learning to play guitar is no different from learning to drive a car or ride a bike. You can’t learn to drive by just practicing braking or turning the steering wheel.
You learn to drive a car by driving it, just as you learn to ride a bike by riding it—and you learn to play guitar by playing songs.
Learning to play guitar takes time, effort, and practice. How well you play depends on how hard you try. Do you want to play a few songs for fun, play for family and friends, or play as a professional? Think about how much time you can practice each week. By practicing 2 to 3 hours a week, a beginner can reach an intermediate level in 3 to 6 months.
Today, there are two main ways to learn guitar. First, you can take private lessons with a professional teacher. This works well, but it takes time, and it costs a lot of money. Second, you can join an online music site. They are cheap and easy to use, but they do not help you stay motivated. Many students get frustrated, quit, and hang their guitar on the wall.
My SoloBand system is different. Your fingers will still get sore from playing guitar, but on day one, you begin learning to play a popular song, so you learn much faster. You will see real results in days, not weeks. Super quick results give you the push to keep playing and learning.
What makes SoloBand special? I learned guitar in the late 1950s, when Rock ‘n’ Roll was new. Back then, there was no Internet, no YouTube, no guitar magazines, no AI, and most music teachers hated Rock ‘n’ Roll. But teens found a secret way to learn guitar that was fast, easy, and fun. That secret set off a Rock ‘n’ Roll explosion that built the huge music industry we have today. Between the 1960s/1970s, guitar sales jumped over 1,000%.
Sadly, that secret way of learning guitar faded away in the 1980s, when most local musicians stopped playing. Born to be wild, I still remember the way I learned to play guitar, the fast, easy, and fun way.
The goal of my website, soloband.net, is to share that secret knowledge with a younger generation.
Playing a guitar automatically implies playing a song and making music. To do so properly, you must train your brain, mind, and muscles to master a song’s tempo, rhythm, melody, and, usually, the lyrics.