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Beginner Guitar Lessons – What Guitar playing can do for You

By Mike Hayes | April 13, 2009

Guitar playing is one of the most satisfying and enjoyable
pastimes you can ever get involved in, of course I’m biased but
for me and the hundreds of students I’ve had the pleasure of teaching
it’s absolutely true.

In fact guitar playing has literally saved my life … I wasn’t
very good at academic subjects at school (I think the term under-
achiever was used) and I definitely was totally useless at sport.

Then a couple of days before my thirteen birthday while driving
me to school my mum asked what I wanted for my birthday. I looked
out the window and saw a guy sitting on his front stairs playing
a guitar.

That was it … “a guitar” I blurted out and two days later I
began my lifelong love affair with this instrument.

Mind you, guitar playing and music had been on my mind for years
it simply hadn’t crystallized until that day. I had tried my hand
at making guitars around the age of seven, they looked o.k., but
failed to produce any real musical tone.

Since I’ve had so much fun with the guitar I know you will also
benefit from playing this magical musical instrument.

Here’s some of the things guitar playing can do for you:

1. Fun – there’s so much fun you can have just buying a guitar,
just researching what type of guitar you want to play is
worth the price of admission.

Talking with other guitar enthusiasts about particular brands and
models of guitars is a great way to increase your circle of
friends. In fact, once you start talking guitars with some of
these guy’s it’s hard to shut them up … you’ll need to pack a
cut lunch!

2. Reduce stress – guitar playing is cheaper than therapy and in
many cases far more effective. I can’t count the number of
business owners who have told me how important learning to play
the guitar is to them.

There’s nothing more relaxing after a tense day at work than to
come home a strum a few chords on the guitar, within five minutes
the troubles of the day dissipate.

3. Social interaction – for myself personally playing the guitar
has helped me overcome shyness, at school I was the shy
overweight kid who didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the
class. Guitar playing has taken me all around the world playing
to literally thousands of people and has given me a great deal of
confidence in my own abilities.

I know that my own story is not a isolated case, it gives me much
satisfaction to watch my students develop their guitar playing
skills … these students who often were shy and withdrawn go on
to be the “life of the party” and the center of attention
wherever they go.

4. Creative thinking – guitar playing requires a  lot of “right
brain” creative thinking. Guitar playing doesn’t ask you to be
yourself it demands it! Have many times are you asked to “be
creative?”, well good guitarists are really “problem solvers”.

In fact,  I  often write on the bottom of a student’s workbook
the phrase “what do you think?” to get them thinking for
themselves.

5. Potential additional income – for those who want to take their
guitar playing to the next level and form a band there is always
the potential additional income from playing paying gigs on the
weekend.

Often the additional income goes towards paying for equipment,
lessons, etc., which encourages the guitarist to constantly improve
his/her skills. And who knows where all this could lead?

The more you think about it, the more exciting it becomes, you
just have to go out and get a guitar and you will see what I mean
…playing and studying the guitar will open a whole new world of
opportunities for you.

I invite you to use these tips and tools when you play the
guitar.

And now I’d like to invite you to get free access to my “How To
Remember 1,000 Songs” eCourse. You can download the course for
free at: http://www.guitarcoaching.com

From Mike Hayes – The Guitar Coaching Guy & the Express Guitar
System

http://www.GuitarCoaching.com
http://AdvancingGuitaristProgram.com

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