The guitar, be it electric or acoustic, is the most versatile of instruments. You can strum a few chords, adopt a highly disciplined classical guitar technique, or play sophisticated jazz chord and scale progressions. The choice is yours. Whatever your bag, the journey to achieving your goal and the fundamental sound is the real buzz.
It's a funny thing, but music is unlike most other activities. Take football for example, there is no escaping the fact that if you want to play pro-football you had better be good and there are no short cuts. Technique and fitness is an absolute must.
Playing the guitar is similar to talking to someone. Sometimes a few well chosen words can mean more than a steady stream of sophisticated phrases that people don't listen to anyway. Likewise a few good chords may be all you need.
Bob Dylan was one of the most successful songwriters of all time. However while he was a talented guitar player he was no better than many other players out there today. But he also had a great talent of writing songs that moved people. So by combining his skill as a lyricist and guitar player, he became one of the biggest names in the music business.
So the fact to take in is that technical ability has little to do with musical talent. If your groove is a simple country, reggae or blues feel you can be damn good and highly relevant without being a technical genius.
The person who chooses to play music with there heart and soul becomes a musician. If you see classical guitarist's, the kind that went to college to become a great player and plays in orchestra's, are usually the worst type of player when it comes to playing rock or country music. Even though they are great at what they do.
If you want to play the guitar you need to have the right attitude. Combine that with your heart and soul and you will find that you have what it takes to be a great player. You do not want to follow the path of other guitar players. Find what is comfortable for you and stick to it, forget about what others are doing and do your own thing.
When you tune in to the simplicity of a player such as the great blues guitarist B. B. King, you can't help but be affected by his economy of notes, played in such a meaningful, soulful musical context.
Playing guitar has an infinite number of possibilities. It is the most adaptable, usable instrument, and it's the journey to your goal that's the fun part. You will never stop learning guitar. Each time you pick it up you will discover something new and it needn't be hard to play to be relevant!
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