K'Rocko
How long does it take to learn guitar?
It's the question I hear most often, and the honest answer is: it depends what "learn" means to you. Your first chords and a simple song come relatively quickly. Smooth changes, barre chords and solos take longer. And honestly, you keep learning guitar your whole life – I've been playing for 11 years and I'm still learning.
What affects your progress the most
- Consistency. Fifteen to twenty minutes every day is worth more than two hours once a week. Fingers and brain learn through repetition at short intervals.
- A clear goal. It's easier to practise when you know what you're practising: one chord change, one rhythm, one part of a song.
- Feedback. Someone who can see your hands will catch a posture mistake before it becomes a habit.
- Slow and accurate. Play with a metronome at a tempo where you don't make mistakes, then speed it up gradually.
What slows you down
Skipping the basics, playing too fast and practising only what you already know. I started on YouTube and got as far as YouTube would take me: I could play a chord, but I didn't know why I was playing it. Only when I learned theory with the help of musicians did things fall into place.
What the path through our programme looks like
Our programme has 10 modules, from holding the guitar to improvisation, and we go through it at your pace. The Be a K'Rocker package runs for 4 months with one lesson a week, 16 hours of playing in total. How far you get in that time depends mostly on how much you practise between lessons.
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