Here’s a cheeky extract from my latest book, Learn Guitar In Three Hours:
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One of the most common reasons for never learning guitar is fear of failure. We need to realise that failing is not only important for success but absolutely necessary. Here are seven quick excuses people use to avoid facing their fears of playing the guitar.
1) I’m tone deaf
Can you hear the difference between birdsong and a train? This means you can differentiate pitch.
2) I don’t have rhythm
Can you count to 4? I thought you might. Besides, everyone has a heartbeat.
3) It takes years to get good at the guitar
It’s simply not true… It only takes a very small amount of time to master 80% of playing the guitar. It’s just that once you fall in love with playing, you want to spend years learning all about the other 20%. I learnt the basics as a self-taught 15 year old scouring the internet for old tabs.
4) I don’t have time to learn
Real learning is about quality of time not quantity.
5) I can’t afford tuition
You own a quickbook about guitar tuition. Plus, there’s so much free stuff on www.dynamictuition.co.uk and other sites online to help get you started, not to mention any mates you may know who play.
6) I’ve never played before
Doesn’t matter. Have you ever been to Azerbaijan? (this is a rhetorical question.)
7) I’m too ugly to play the guitar
Probably (just kidding!)
We are taught from a young age that to succeed in life, we need to work hard. So if we want to succeed even more then we need to work even harder. It sounds like a great mantra but here’s the obvious problem! I’m not a big fan of hard work and neither are you! I can’t spend 10 hours a day playing the guitar because I have other commitments in life!
More work doesn’t necessarily mean more results
When I was in primary school, I was achieving pretty well. So my proud parents thought best to ask the teachers to put me up a year. So they did. What happened? Well I finished my GCSEs and A Levels a year early. How did I do? Pretty good. In fact, moving up a year made absolutely no difference to my end results. Somehow I managed to skip a year and still achieve exactly the same results as I would have done if I had stayed in the same year.
Is that even possible?
Of course it is. Don’t you think it’s strange that you learn maths for 11 years at school and yet so many people cannot perform basic arithmetic. I doubt very much that it’s because that many people simply cannot do basic arithmetic. I suspect it’s because the system didn’t work for them.
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You may be wondering, what on earth is a QuickBook anyway? A QuickBook is a short book that teaches you to learn something in a very short space of time.
Learn Guitar In Three Hours is being released on Saturday 17th December 2011. For more information, check out http://www.dynamictuition.co.uk/threehours






Haha loving the style this has been written in. Funny and provocative.