practice? how much?
do you play video games? do you get better at them? do you pass new levels the more you play?
if so, you can make great strides by replacing the video games with your guitar,
you will get better with practice thanks to muscle memory.
i’ve been playing over 2 decades and i still practice things over and over and over with a metronome.
could i get by without it? sure. would i be happy and inspired without it? no way.
could i have learned how to play to start without practice? no way.
what you focus on and spend time doing expands and improves.
you gotta do it repeatedly and consistently tho.
Practice will improve your playing with a thing called Muscle Memory.
according to wikipedia,
muscle memory - When an active person repeatedly trains movement, often of the same activity, in an effort to stimulate the mind’s adaptation process, the outcome is to induce physiological changes which attain increased levels of accuracy through repetition. Even though the process is really brain-muscle memory or motor memory, the colloquial expression “muscle memory” is commonly used.
Individuals rely upon the mind’s ability to assimilate a given activity and adapt to the training. As the brain and muscle adapts to training, the subsequent changes are a form or representation of its muscle memory.
check out the links below for more written proof of the power of muscle memory as it pertains to guitar.
but, more importantly, stop kidding yourself, pick the dang thing up and find out for yourself!
