Title says it all! Get it from here: http://www.playitnowtunes.com/

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I’m looking for potential contributors to this site. I’d like to get multiple people to contribute learning-guitar articles here. This site is very well indexed by search engines and often comes up in search results.

If you are a guitar teacher, you’d be greatly welcomed. It’d be a great way to get your name out in to the guitar-teaching world.

If you are a current student, then contributing here can be a great way to vent frustration or to gather different perspectives. I’ve also found that it is interesting to look back on your playing history.

If you are a constant player — band, session, etc — writing and contributing here would be a great way to get your [band] name out in to the internet.

If you are at all interested, please e-mail me at Frank[at]UnderstandingGuitar.org. Several spots are open and I really don’t have a maximum.

As an explanation to those who have been following my guitar-learning adventure, I’m enrolling in a Masters of Science of Software Engineering program and expect to have little time for guitar until I complete the program. Since I won’t have time to learn guitar, I also won’t have time to write articles for this site. This gives me two possibilities, tear down the site (I pay money to run this) or allow others to author articles for it. I hope to get authors and continue this site.

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I recently subscribed to a podcast entitled “60-Second Psych“. Psychology is among one of my many interests. In the list of previous podcasts, I cam across a podcast entitled “Musicians Think Differently from the Rest of us“.

This was fascinating to me as both a fan of music and someone who is trying to learn to play an instrument. It also helps me understand why learning guitar has been so much more challenging than most of my other endeavor… Click the play button to listen to the podcast.

The original script and the recording itself can be found at: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=musicians-think-differently-from-th-08-10-06

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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while and I’ve just kept getting pulled away. I’ve completed my lessons at the Music Room and I thought things went well. I spend a lot of time with guitar during this time and actually learned things!

As you might recall from previous posts, I decided to stop attending lessons at the music room because of the amount of time I felt I had to put in to each week to ensure I learned what I was suppose to learn. Ultimately, it left me absolutely no time for all the other things that I had going on. I guess this is the hard part of being an adult learning something like an instrument.

Desire just isn’t enough because that desire needs to be stronger than what you need to sacrifice and for me I was sacrificing too much. Of course, I’m am planning on continuing with the guitar. I will, but I’ve vastly slowed the pace. I doubt I’ll ever be able to play like I wanted to but ultimately, I knew I’d never get there because I tend to be a perfectionist.

I imagine that being a perfectionist has also hindered my ability to play because if I cant nail something perfectly, consistently I keep on it. I wear myself out in this way because I either get tired or frustrated with what I’m practicing.

Anyway, my teacher gave me a few tips for continue to practice. One thing that I wanted to make sure that I post here is that I discussed rhythm guitar with my teacher. Rhythm guitar is a very versatile thing which is why I wanted to cover it. Any time you hear someone solo in a bar or what not, 90 percent of the time they are playing the rhythm part of the song (occasionally filling in with the popular riffs and etc.)

My rhythm guitar sucks. I know it has gotten better since I first started this effort, but it still sucks. I can’t keep time and I have trouble maintaining a pattern. All very frustrating.