The 5 Biggest Guitar Learning Pitfalls (And How to Avoid Them) • Must-Watch Beginner Lesson
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In this video, I break down the 5 biggest challenges beginners face and share simple solutions to help you play better, faster, and more comfortably. Whether you’re learning acoustic or electric guitar, these tips will fast-track your progress and build your confidence.
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Thanks! I’m 74 years old. I started to learn to play guitar when I was 68 years old. I started to learn fingerstyle at 70. I think I am an eternal intermediate player. I have watched your videos for years. They all help. This one is very good. Maybe I’ll play in public when I’m in my 80’s. 😂😂
Yeah, I'm back from a huge hiatus and I'm really brittle. Just make if fun. 🙂
Cool! I'm just a few years behind you, feel exactly the same!
@stevelawrie9115 I'm with you, Steve. I'm 59 and have been playing for 45 years. I've been off and on a few times, but I'm more excited about my playing now than ever before.
Man, I’m exactly right where you are. I’ve been playing off and on but didn’t really start playing seriously until I retired at 68. I’m 70 now and feel like I’m firmly in the intermediate level. Going to play as long as I am able.
@@triples4good Go forever, bro!
Thank you. You had helped me so much to learn the E maj part of the Spanish Romance. To learn IT as a chord and tap all fingers at the same time. Now I will bekome to play faster. Normaly I have to know it, but it was cleared in my Bryan. Thank you from Lake Konstanz, Germany. For me, you are the Words best Guitar Player.
I like Justin Johnson.
Justin’s recommendations about muscle memory is right on point. I initially learned guitar in my teens. Unfortunately, I haven’t picked up a guitar very often since. Yet now in my 70s I can still pick up a guitar and at least hit and change among the basic open chords quickly and clearly.
Awesome lesson!! I’m trying to pick the guitar back up after years of nothing, seriously thinking of your lesson vids, thanks Justin👍🏻
I'm an amature guitar player and pro drummer i started playing guitar 4 years ago because i wanted to be like you. These tips will really help me overcome all my issues and keep on getting better, Thankyou Justin youve helped me bloom❤❤
Justin thank you for “giving back” to the Guitar playing public. I got your fantastic slide playing DVD to further my experience. Keep up the great work! 👍
Holding the guitar with just your right hand is a good tip, never thought about that, thank you
Your music was the impulse I needed to pick up my guitar after a 10-year hiatus. I subscribed to your learning platform the moment it came out and, man, am I glad that I did. I wish this kind of resources when I was first starting out.
Great advice!
I think many students simply fail to understand basic music rules.
Stuff so simple Justin might overlook it.
Understanding rythmn.
So many players simply can not keep a beat.
A 4/4 song will have 4 beats per measure ( oh there are some oddball tunes that might break the rule but very rare)
They can't strum because they fail to recognize this.
They also fail to recognize that on dang near every song their role is to strum and be part of the rythmn section.
Nuthin like a bluegrass bunch with zillion dollar guitars but they flip the beat around about every verse and couldn't play to a click track if their life depended on it.
Learn to be an accurate playing ' in time' guitarist.
Thanks! Very inspiring: "to think behind the fretboard"! Makes so much sense!
I’ve been playing for over 30 years and this is the first time hearing some of these pointers. Could’ve saved me a lot of frustration. Also, when you buy a guitar, request a setup, it won’t cost you extra as it’s part of the deal. Great video!
Grazie per la lezione e i consigli🎸🙏
Set up is everything, I remember starting off on a guitar that was little more than a glorified tennis ratchet lol I’m surprised I stuck with it lol
Thank you Justine ❤ I appreciate your kindness
Thankyou ! Great hints at just the right time while I’m learning the Chords ! Perfect timing ! 🎸👍
Thank you sir
Glad to help!
Great advice Justin !! Good for us older intermediate players too ! Cheers !
Excellent post! Really like the way you show how to hold the guitar neck and find your own personal sweet spot for you to comfortably hold it and get clean fretted chords. Most teach that the thumb has to be centered with the fingers and in the center of the back of the neck. I find while this helps to apply pressure when first learning bar chords it isn't comfortable at all for me personally. I also think many teachers talk as if everything has to be done excatly a certain way...while maybe as a beginner this is very helpful at first you can develop your own style as you can clearly see many have done. A good example would be how you hold the pick. Most say it has to be held a certain way, then you see others holding it completely different because it's what works best for them personally. I myself do not like using a pick at all, but will still practice with one at times just to have that option available to me. One of the biggest issues for me is making the time to practice, using a more structured practice routine and keeping motivated. Just my personal thoughts and experiences. Thank you for sharing your talent, you're one of the best there is.
Thank you for thIs essential Basics.
I am an old guy with a belly. I can't play on my right leg, it just slides off; especially the electrics. I began on a classical style guitar, and found that the classical position, on the left leg with the lower body cradled between my legs and a high neck angle was easier at first. Now I always use a strap, seated or standing, and the guitar is always in the same place.
Always great advice, Justin! Thank you.
All beginners should know all this, many thanks for this video 😉
Crazy that #2, #3, #4, and #5 were natural for me... #1 was something I learned about, later and learned how to adjust, for myself, on my first electric (Gibson Les Paul... The G was horrible about intonation, when I got it). I had a bit of music background (trumpet in 5th and 6th grade, french horn in 7th and 8th grade) before I picked up guitar (my first polyphonic instrument) on spring break, my eighth grade year, when I was 13. I grew up listening to The Beatles, and knew every song. I found a book of their music, in my mom's piano bench, with the open chord charts printed above the staves at each chord change. I started with the simpler 3-chord songs, chucking out a rough rhythm, until I got some muscle memory built up, changing between the chords, until I could play the song seamlessly. Then I'd move on to a different song, building my chord vocabulary. A year or so later, a friend taught me bar chords based on the various open E and A shapes, and that changed my game. Eventually, I learned about the pentatonic, and went from there. I'm 42, and I still consider myself a novice, even though I know other guitar players who pay me compliments. I just don't play anywhere as often as i used to, so I've been kinda stuck for about 20 years. I've been playing more, lately, though (probably more, in the last month, than the previous 5 years). I definitely appreciate this video... It's a nice reminder of fundamentals! Good stuff, man!
Excellent video, thank you Mr Johnson 🙏🏻
Love You, Man
Great lesson Justin 🎶✌
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much. I and the grandchildren will be so well served in our efforts to learn correctly how to.
I'd like to add it's sometimes good to use different fingers on chords. Sometimes it's better to use the pinky which frees up the index finger making it easier to set up the next chord shape. Once I started using Barre chords I had to use different fingers anyways and it was rough at first because I neglected them early on in the open position.
Excellent video. Thanks a lot!
Thank you
Thank you wery much Justin
This video is so ridiculously helpful. Thank you, my dude. 💪💪💪
Great video on what to look (listen) for, and how to fix it!
Thanks Justin!
Playing since 25y intensively, but when Justin talks the guitar and his approach I watch it anyway.
I adore this man.
Thank you number 5 is the one I need to learn ..
Justin at 12:25 making a still face 😳 as if he were surprised to play a chord that does not sound good at all. That hasn't happened to him in quite a while, I guess 😆
AWESOME ADVICE JUSTIN ! 😎
Great advice for any level of player
Went to a music store checking out acoustics. Suprised to find a denver solid spruce top electric had the best set up all. Sounded great and wasb$380 C.
Great tips! Niceeeee. 😁👍
Geez....14 when i got my first guitar, I'm 54 now. Ive tried on and off to pick it up and end up hitting walls that discourage me. #3 and #4 tips were exactly my pitfalls. 7 instructors couldn't or didn't identify the problems, but 1 JJ video nailed them.
Most useful tips on the web 💯 nice one keep on rocking from Wintery Escocia
Terrific video. Thank You Mr Johnson 🙏👍🐕🦺🇺🇲
Tack .
Sweet!!
Thanks for watching!
He justin, i agree with strings but i have other strings too .. Monel strings are great too ..
Very underated string sets imo. Those are easy for the fingers, i use them all the time because the pick sound is not that hard as on the other strings ..
You should try them 🙂 Martin Retro Strings are the monel strings .. Nickel acoustic strings have great sound and the bass is softer in volume, just good for fingerpick ..
best lesson by best guitar player
I still have mine I think a tennis racket strung up would definitely sound better 🤘
Excellent video. What kind of guitar is that?
Curious about the model of guitar you have in this video....
Unfortunately the finger pain that has made me quit playing is arthritis from years of beating up my hands on the job .
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My first guitar teacher taught me to put my thumb flat on the bottom of the neck. If that makes sense. Maybe it's common for classical? Anyway, it was hard for me who was self taught until that point.
Hi . I bought a guitar over 25 years ago but I got a 6mm drill through my left finger then after a few years I sawed off a bit of my right thumb, then I got some of my fingers broken, but last year I sawed off a bit of my left thumb which I still have pain in.
Thanks for what you are doing .
but I want a gösselgafel as a guitar.
Thanks.
Dang, what do ya do for a living juggle chainsaws? 😅
One could be excused for thinking you just might be a little clumsy.
@@steveDC51 I make toys for children.
Great lesson... I'm an intermediate who like many was stuck. It took me playing with someone more experienced to find out my posture for last 5 years was suboptimal while I learned at home alone. It was all those "behind the fretboard" angles that were off. Now all those difficult transitions are coming together. End of the day it's always the fundamentals that screw u 😁
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Opinion on nut width-? I am getting into fingerpicking and my old go to guitar has a 1 11/16 nut someone suggested switching to a 1.75 as im getting some muting with my middle finger.
oh man, I wish I saw this 3 years ago :D
One of my biggest annoyances is not having long enough or flexible enough fingers. I am sure the latter could MAYBE be worked on, but the former... no way!
Please go watch some tiny Asian children on full size classical guitars ( on TH-cam) and free yourself of that, " oh my hands are small, my fingers are short" etc....
If y'all never seen this dude play, check him out, Especially playing the 3 string shovel.
Yes, It's a instrument.
I bought a pack of guitar strings. Now I just need a guitar.
ok
Confidence, creativity and committed are 3 big reasons chicks dig guitar players. There’s a video where the same guy with a guitar and then a puppy asked a girl for her number and the guitar got it every time. It should be the main reason but it sure can help when deciding video games or guitar practice. No chick is going to date you because you slayed the Elden Beat 7 times. I’m going for my 8th . Don’t be like me. I already almost out in 40 years. Great video, God bless anyone one who read this whole ridiculous rant.
I love it when pro guitar players try to play wrong and fail.
I don't have an index finger but I tried taping a piece of cardboard to my finger.
Right on mfer. We’re gonna make you…a star. And if I pick up a gui-tarr and get to pluckin…you just might be the reason why. Keep rockin em. They’re all tuning in now. 🍺
Now. Where’d i leave that Natural Light. It keeps escaping me. 🍻🥳🥃
Learn on a shovel guitar 🧐
I can’t believe the quality they put into the new $120 squires. Even the tuners are getting better. You kids have way more options with today’s technology.
Yea don’t buy a fretlight guitar
Do a lot of dishes
Don’t sit on layed back couch or chair to play and have chair w foot support
Good tip on clean cords w reputition
I use riff station to play along w mp3 songs showing cord for songs to make practice fun
But still can’t remember a song cords and words without looking at sheet music
Good instructor helps a lot
Wait a minute how do you know that I got a guitar for my Birthday and I'm planning to learn how to play it ? 🤔
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men mina fingra är inte långa , så alla som har långa fingra klara detta bättre
The BIGGEST guitar learning pitfall is not having 6 inch long fingers.
I have a Taylor and it stinks. I hate it.
but my fingers aren't long, so anyone with long fingers can handle this better
Not all guitar necks are created equal. Try a few different guitars and find one that fits comfortably.
After 2 years of practicing every day, it evens out
Please, go watch some TH-cam vids of tiny, tiny Asian children playing full size classical guitars and rid yourself of that, " oh my fingers are short, oh! My hands are small".
Folks are coddling you, to get along with you and maybe sell ya something.🤔
I have XXL hands, not terribly fat but very long fingers. Trust me, long fingers present challenges too. Throw away the crutch and get playing - short fingers are not a real limitation. Perhaps your guitar is setup for a person with big hands. Plenty of options for neck width, neck profile, and scale length - go to a reputable shop and find one that fits you.