What You Should Do If Your Guitar Practice Isn’t Any Fun

Are you no longer having fun during your guitar practice time? If so, you will get much slower results (if any) for these reasons:

1. When you feel bored or tired, you are going to practice less. When you spend less time practicing guitar, you make much slower progress.

2. In some cases, you may get to the point to where you don’t feel like playing guitar at all. This means you not only don’t get results, but you may lose some of the progress you worked for as well.

One of the best ways to make practicing guitar fun again is to keep track of your guitar playing progress on a consistent basis. This helps your guitar playing in the following important ways:

1. You become much more focused as you practice. To start tracking your progress, you’ll need to first create goals to work towards. This will help you get better at guitar much faster because it gives you something to compare your current level to. To see how this is done, get this free resource about building guitar speed.

2. You go into competition with yourself. This makes tracking progress every week like playing a game. Certainly it wouldn’t be that fun to play a game without scoring points or tracking who is winning... However, most guitar players do this when they don’t track their progress while practicing.

3. Getting feedback every week about where you are in relation to your goals gives you inspiration to keep practicing.

As you get more and more results from your practice, your motivation to continue will grow. This is what makes the process of measuring your progress so vital for becoming a better guitarist.

4. You will gain a newfound confidence in your potential to become a truly great guitar player. In fact, it is this attitude that will lay the foundation for you to reach all of your biggest musical goals.

These Are The Eight Easy Steps For Tracking Your Progress On Guitar:

Step 1: Go over your guitar playing goals and determine the specific skills you need to work on master (this is something a guitar teacher will help you with).

Step 2: Find the correct exercises needed for improving these skills and practice them correctly. Exercises may be things such as patterns to practice or things like topics to study. For example, ear training, improvisation, music theory and so forth.

Step 3: Determine goals that are achievable in a shorter period of time, so they can pave the way for you to reach your bigger goals. To learn how to do this, read this article about achieving musical goals.

Step 4: Practice the exercises you decided to use from step two for a short period of time (one or two weeks).

Step 5: Test yourself to see how much progress you made towards reaching your goals in step 3. To measure technical skills, use a metronome. For non-technical skills, determine a way to observe your progress using customized tests (I’ll discuss this more in a moment).

Step 6: Use a visual chart to record the progress you’ve made. This is essentially the way you track your “score”.

Step 7: Determine if you need to adjust your guitar practicing routine, by observing your progress. By doing this, you ensure that you make progress every week.

Step 8: Repeat steps four through seven for all of the short goals you have. Eventually you WILL reach your bigger goals... and do so, in much less time than you ever could’ve imagined!

To remove any complication that may come with tracking your progress on your own, track your progress with a tool that will give you 100% accurate tests for analyzing every area of your guitar playing. To learn how it works, check out this page on speeding up guitar playing progress.

When you track your progress on guitar every week, you will be amazed at how fast you become a better guitarist.

To see a sample of the awesome results you can get in your guitar playing by using this process, download this free resource about building guitar speed.