There are various ways to learn how to play the guitar. For those seeking to gain the necessary basics steps to start playing the guitar as fast as possible, the only real requirement for beginners is to extensively practice as much as possible. Some methods of learning the guitar are better suited for a heavy practice regimen than others, however. If you are serious about dedicating yourself to a heavy daily schedule of at least 3-4 hours of guitar practice without fail, it’s perhaps best to look into an online guitar lesson to compliment the advanced pace.
While using traditional methods of learning the guitar (like taking a class or hiring a private instructor) work just as well, it’s only with an online curriculum that you can manually control the pacing of your guitar lessons to suit your individual needs. Classes are typically only as fast as the least-successful student, meaning that a slower learner will drag down the pace of the entire classroom—not to mention gleaning away the majority of the guitar teacher’s attention. While it’s theoretically possible to hire a private instructor that will be able to match the pace of a rapid learner, they not only cost more than online lessons but are only available during assigned rehearsal times (usually once or twice a week for an hour or two at a time). Why be forced to match an instructor’s pacing and schedule when you can set your own with an online curriculum?
Learning the guitar fast is a very real possibility thanks to resources offered online. Many online guitar lesson websites separate lessons from basic techniques to gradually more advanced. If you practice enough, it’s possible to quickly move through the lessons at an accelerated pace, and receive as many new lessons per day as you can get through successfully. Of course, much of learning the guitar is daily repetition along with the memorization of techniques and fingerings, so in that respect it’s not possible to ‘speed up’ the retention of basic guitar skills. However as stated earlier, committing to extra practice every day makes it more likely to quickly learn the basic techniques that allow for advancing further, faster.
Beginning guitarists should make no mistake though. They aren’t taking any ‘shortcuts’ in learning the guitar—it works out to the same amount of practice regardless of if they practice for a half-hour a day or 4 hours a day. So saying, the only thing to take away from attempting to learn the guitar as fast as possible is that you will definitely need to have a lot of free time in order to support the long hours of practice time that comes with rapid learning. There’s always the danger of ‘burning out’ whenever you attempt to learn anything this way, so take caution in deciding how much time to dedicate to practice before you find your motivation sliding away long before you’ve actually reached the goal of learning how to play the guitar.
