Top 7 Tips for Older Beginner Guitar Players

I share my top tips for older beginner guitar players.

You can get the full lessons for each tip here:
Rhythm and Timing:
How to fix sore fingers:
8 Beginner chords you must know:
My Practice Routine:
How to change chords fast:

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00:00 Intro
00:48 Rhythm and timing are most important
03:39 Sore Fingers mean progress
04:35 Correct first, quick later
05:16 Learn the open chords
06:17 Practice a little each day
07:36 Change chords smoothly
09:26 Follow a path

[whitediamondchild]

Great advice as usual Kevin. I struggled with my rythym and timing. With patience and practice, I have become better and as for muscle memory, I shocked myself whilst practising, I was changing chords without even looking at my fingers, this is after 5 months of learning guitar. I feel this is an achievement in itself. As you so rightly stated, perfection before speed. Although I do speed up on certain songs, I feel I am not quite there yet, but I know I will get there. Your help and videos have been a valuable source of my progress thus far. Once again thank you for your dedication and effort you and your wife and Maggie May put into helping us older folks, or as I say, recycled teenagers to learn guitar...

[nigelbelton]

Hi Kevin. “Practice a little every day.” Umm? I get it, but, for me, after 15 minutes of practice I don’t feel as if I’ve done anything, let alone achieved anything. I need to practice for at least an hour every day to make me feel that it was worthwhile. Furthermore, on most days, because I have the time, I can easily practice for 2 hours. So, Kevin, is it really that detrimental to my progress if I exceed 15 minutes a day? I’m all electric, no acoustic. Cheers and thanks.

[michaelgarrow]

Tip 8- You probably aren’t going on a international tour any time soon…