How to Avoid Bad Habit When Playing Guitar

It is much harder to break a bad habit than it is to prevent bad habits from occurring in the first place. However, with some things, people prefer to learn on their own. Self-taught guitar lessons are among the most popular and learning how to play the guitar for fun is a very common hobby or past time. Unfortunately, that means that many people learn to play the guitar incorrectly and must eventually learn to adjust or fix their guitar playing bad habits.

When it comes to guitar playing, some bad habits are harder to break than others are. If it is something simple like strumming the guitar strings the wrong way, this can be adjusted or unlearned without too much difficulty. Conversely, holding the neck of the guitar wrong can be very difficult to overcome and prevent you from ever being able to jam on your guitar the way that many rockstars play.

Adjusting the strap to hold your guitar at the proper level may be very important in some cases but if you are really jamming out on your guitar, you may not even use a strap and just hold your guitar in your hands without any additional support. Problems like this will not present any major issues for most people in regards to their guitar playing but some bad habits are very difficult to overcome and create longer lasting side effects.

It is actually possible to tune a guitar incorrectly and have it sound okay for most uses. However, if you do not learn to tune your guitar, you will be in big trouble the first time you try rocking out with other guitar players or the next garage band. Many small things can go wrong when you are learning to play the guitar.

Once you have learned to do it the wrong way, unlearning what you have taught yourself on the guitar and then learning to do it correctly may be more difficult than you imagine. One of your best bets is to get a good guitar guide online so that you learn right the first time. Learning to play the guitar is a great goal but learning to do it right really does require you to find and use a good guitar guide.

By Ewen Chia

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