The secret to learning guitar fast lies in avoiding the use of incorrect techniques and in avoiding making crucial mistakes while learning and practicing guitar, because bad habits, once learned are difficult to unlearn. Therefore, whatever little amount of guitar playing techniques you learn, just remember to learn them all correctly and practice these techniques regularly to gain greater extent of proficiency.

Otherwise, you will be wasting away a lot of your valuable time, energy and resources on learning incorrect techniques, and later on, understanding that you made a mistake by learning the techniques inaccurately, and then rectifying your mistake by learning the correct techniques, and finally, coercing your fingers and brain to get adapted to this newly learned ‘correct’ technique and stick on to it. You can save a lot of time if you learn the techniques correctly right from day one.

Here is how you can learn and master guitar by avoiding the most commonly committed mistakes –

1. Never skip learning the basics of guitar learning and music theory. Equipping yourself with the best of music theory, ear training techniques, fingering picking techniques, strumming techniques, soloing techniques, and learning about the different types of chords and chord progressions, learning to read music & guitar tablature, etc are all crucial aspects of guitar playing and therefore should never be skipped. If you skip them, then what you get to learn will be superficial aspects, that will definitely leave you with a hollow musical foundation and a shaky guitar knowledge.

2. You need to learn everything including the smallest aspect of guitar playing, if you want to learn and master guitar perfectly. Therefore, you should focus on guitar basics like the different parts of the guitar, how to hold a guitar, learning to read musical notations and guitar tablature, introduction to the guitar strings and chords, significance of tempo, timing and intervals, scales, finger-picking, identifying melody, harmony, phrasing, and many other important basic components of music and guitar training. If you neglect the basics then you will not be able to inculcate versatility in your guitar playing.

3. Seek the guidance of a good and reputed guitar teacher who can teach you everything from the basics of guitar playing to the most advanced techniques of guitar playing. Never rely on inexperienced guitar instructors, self-proclaimed guitar experts, online websites, magazines or guitar training books to teach you to play the guitar if you are a complete guitar newbie for these unreliable sources of guitar information can do you more harm by teaching you inaccurate or imperfect things about guitar playing, than doing you any good. By avoiding committing the common mistakes and by practicing regularly, you will soon be able to play guitar like a true professional!