The Rewards of Persistence | How I learned to play the guitar

I first heard The Beatles when I was a teenager. I was sitting on the couch watching TV with my grandmother and she was channel surfing when she overheard a Beatles concert with the camera zooming in on the guitarist's solo. I was completely mesmerized by what I was seeing and hearing and I knew immediately "that is what I want to do". Something sparked inside me that said "I want to know how to play music like that." I mean it hit me like a lightning bolt and I still remember that moment 10 years later.

I pleaded with my father to give me an electric guitar as the only Christmas gift I asked for my senior year of high school. But my family thought I was just a whim and wouldn't insist, and since guitars were relatively expensive at the time, they denied my request. So I picked up my uncle's old guitar, which had been lying around for years. It was an unbranded electric guitar. The rough feel and easy out-of-tune intonation announced its poor playability. This was a big challenge for me as a beginner.

I eventually realized that the starting point for learning guitar was to get a guitar that was easy to play. And, a guitar that I could afford. It was very difficult to find the perfect guitar without spending too much money. Luckily, I found Glarry - an up and coming music brand offering very affordable but great quality guitars. I couldn't believe my eyes when I got this Glarry GST. That's when all my problems were over and I could finally sit down and learn to play guitar to my maximum potential.

With the help of my previous experience and Glarry's guitar, my self-learning went much smoother this time. I was no longer aimlessly learning random stuff with no real direction. Instead, I tried to develop some sort of organized plan. For example, start with open chord shapes, then learn the barre chords shapes for each, then start learning some beginning songs that contain those chords, then learn the pentatonic scale, and so on.