How to Play a Guitar Fast

PRIVATE LESSONS & GOOD PRACTISE HABITS   Learn to playing guitar is a combination of using your own ear, visualizing, watching other great players, learning the principles of music, and a list as long as my arm can stretch. Signing up for weekly lessons to build a routine, this is a must. Last but not least practice, practice is the key.  Enjoy yourself; try creatively what your heart tells you to do.  With that said, it is important to point out that how to learn to play guitar is much more than what a simply stated answer can be.  

THE LAW OF POTENTIALITY   The Law of Potentiality is a phrase that holds so much meaning through all walks of life.  It means we all have potential.  It is the field of all possibilities and creativity.  What you want, you will attract.  This is how to learn to play guitar.  

TECHNIQUE   Let’s first start with the technical side of playing guitar.  Committing to lessons is something that every aspiring artist must do.  The way you pick, the tone you are looking for, and the speed in your scales all covers the topic of building technique.  Lessons allow you the opportunity to not only learn the basics and grow, but it also leads you to discover more about whom you really are while learning your own little ideas, trying to learn musical phrases from your favorite guitar players you hear on CD’s, or learning to read the music from the beginner to advanced level books.    

 HAVING A TEACHER YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH   With the help of a well seasoned professional teacher that has been around the block many times, he watches and guides you from right up close. During your lessons, my best piece of advice is to let go of the need to control.  Learn to flow and go where the music takes you.  Trust your teacher, trust the process.  This key component, although difficult at first, is the first step in having many good lessons, and a great attitude for learning in general.   

BIO RHYTHEMS / GET RELAXED AND WARM   It is a great practice routine to slow things down during the guitar lesson as well as during home practice. This means you have to get your heart beat and bio rhythms calm so new information can come into your experience to try to play on your guitar. Play something on your guitar in a silent room and then stop.  Do not play anything else for a couple of minutes. You may hear a little few notes of a musical answer in your mind.  Try it again, playing it slower and then stop. Listen to what your imagination conjures up in that silent room. The key here is many folds.  One major point at this stage is you do not play the notes on the guitar to find them.  You hear the notes in your head.  Try to then remember the notes you heard and figure them out on the guitar.  Always record these types of practice sessions. When you hear inside yourself the musical notes of your choice that is your home spun answer to what you played on the guitar.  Do this a lot.  When you go back to learn how to play what you heard inside, on your instrument, you will find it is simply and beautifully placed in the musical bars, with a natural, very relaxed, in time manner.  You may not comprehend the exact idea that is being taught here the very first time, but through practicing you will learn.     

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WHEN IT STARTS COMING TOGETHER   The moments that you sit there, not playing, are the times for you to hear the other sounds or musical answers, inspired from your playing.  This is where technical ability and passion meld together.  This is how to learn to play guitar.    

YOU ARE THE MUSIC You are the music, not the guitar.  It is all coming from you, it is your inspiration. When you take time to listen to it, your abilities will grow, and you will always be the music. What you sow is what you reap.  We are constantly involved in musical decisions, stimulated by everything around us.  We learn to make decisions that will make us happy, and make decisions on how we feel emotionally when we practice effectively. The music, rhythms and melodies you make without the instrument are so much greater and more advanced than what you may be able to transfer through your fingers to your instrument.  Don’t fear this.  This is the best thing that can ever happen to you.  You have a library of many Symphonies of musical notes to tap into when you play an idea, and you can train yourself to listen, to be silent and hear the musical note answers.    

IT IS AMAZING THE AMOUNT OF INTUITIVE MUSIC THAT IS IN YOU.   Through time and practicing tuning into your inner music, or musical inner ear, you will learn how to transcend your abilities and transfer it to the guitar. It is amazing the amount of music that is in you.  Tapping into your sounds and rhythms in your head is how to learn to play guitar.      

THE TIME WILL COME TO PLAY WHAT YOU FEEL Once you achieve a more advanced level of playing you will learn to posses a mental detachment to all the things you play and instead your musical energy takes over.  You will get there one day.  You will find with all the complex things you learn, and work so hard on, there will come a time when you let go of it all.  You come to a point where you don’t have to prove anything – you just play, you are the music.   

YOU ARE A SERVANT TO THE MUSIC You are a servant to the music. The least effort expended when playing with effortless ease is the principle of non-resistance.  The more we practice this, the more it will expand in our minds and cross over into other disciplines in our lives.  Cats don’t try to lick their paws, they just lick them. The knowledge is infinite.  I say that you are the music.  This is how to learn to play guitar.  

By: Rick Washbrook

http://www.guitarlessonsaurora.ca/

“Washbrook is touched by a giving spirit, besides driven by a tenacious vision; guitarist Rick Washbrook stirs the juices of string-sensitive guitar purist.” Quote from Jazzreview.com Karl Stober

“Rick Washbrook is one of the best guitarists in North America.  He is humble and never has shown an ego about his talent or acted like he is the ‘amazing guitarist’.  I admire that about him.  Many musicians that is fortunate to be around Rick love jamming with him, and sharing his laughter.  I have studied with Rick Washbrook and seen him play live many times.  I have all his CD’s.  I recognize through Washbrook that we can break on through to the other side. He transcends when he performs. Rick Washbrook plays the music, not so much playing the guitar.” Fraser MacDonald: Music critic

“Rick Washbrooks music is always welcome. His solo new Flamenco & Latin CD “Roncesvalles Tango” Is In the top Percentile of all Canadian CD Submissions in 2007.” CBC Radio.Mark Rheaume