Guitar Improvement - Reasons You'll Play Better With Your Eyes Closed
Even experienced guitarists might give you some odd tips on how to improve your skills, but most of the time they're right on point. For instance, me suggesting to you that playing with your eyes closed can help might sound like complete nonsense.
Actually, learning to play with your eyes closed will give you a much better understanding of your own playing habits, help you to better recognize parts of the guitar, and develop your ability to learn by ear. Check out these 6 reasons how playing with your eyes closed can push more improvement into your skills.
1. Improving your chord knowledge isn't as stressful. Moving between chords as a beginning guitarist might not be the smoothest thing to accomplish, but practicing with your eyes closed can help you address what you actually feel. When you really want to absorb the formations of those chords, remove your sight and you'll find your muscle memory starting to kick in.
2. Understand the elements of the fret board better. Your fret board can be a little intimidating when you're forced to travel all over in the depths of a single song, but learning the distances by memory can be quite beneficial. Improve your ability to move across the frets easier by shutting your eyes every now and then.
3. You'll learn to not over-look your mistakes. If you don't learn to right your mistakes you might not make as much improvement as you were hoping on the guitar. By shutting your eyes when you play, you'll hear those minor mistakes loud and clear and get more motivation to turn them into correct phrases.
4. Your memory will become better. Looking at the frets and where your fingers are going can sometimes cloud your memory when you have a few tunes to memorize. Without your sight, feeling your way through the song is much more effective and you'll find your memory improving with each practice.
5. Stylistic features in a song will become clearer. It's pretty easy to be able to copy the aspects of a song, but learning to play like the original writer or composer is difficult. Help your ability to recognize those small stylistic features in a song by shutting your eyes a few times.
6. You can adjust to the tempo of the music better. If you're a guitarist that fights tempos by speeding up and slowing down without warning, playing with your eyes closed can improve your interpretation of the songs rhythms and tempos. Without your eyes to guide you, you'll find that your listening skills will heighten and your adjustments to the song's tempo will be more accurate.
Learning to connect better with your instrument in any fashion that you find reliable is a good thing. The next time that you have a guitar practice, see if you can improve upon your skills by taking your eyes away from the fret board and relying on your ears and fingers. - 18424
Actually, learning to play with your eyes closed will give you a much better understanding of your own playing habits, help you to better recognize parts of the guitar, and develop your ability to learn by ear. Check out these 6 reasons how playing with your eyes closed can push more improvement into your skills.
1. Improving your chord knowledge isn't as stressful. Moving between chords as a beginning guitarist might not be the smoothest thing to accomplish, but practicing with your eyes closed can help you address what you actually feel. When you really want to absorb the formations of those chords, remove your sight and you'll find your muscle memory starting to kick in.
2. Understand the elements of the fret board better. Your fret board can be a little intimidating when you're forced to travel all over in the depths of a single song, but learning the distances by memory can be quite beneficial. Improve your ability to move across the frets easier by shutting your eyes every now and then.
3. You'll learn to not over-look your mistakes. If you don't learn to right your mistakes you might not make as much improvement as you were hoping on the guitar. By shutting your eyes when you play, you'll hear those minor mistakes loud and clear and get more motivation to turn them into correct phrases.
4. Your memory will become better. Looking at the frets and where your fingers are going can sometimes cloud your memory when you have a few tunes to memorize. Without your sight, feeling your way through the song is much more effective and you'll find your memory improving with each practice.
5. Stylistic features in a song will become clearer. It's pretty easy to be able to copy the aspects of a song, but learning to play like the original writer or composer is difficult. Help your ability to recognize those small stylistic features in a song by shutting your eyes a few times.
6. You can adjust to the tempo of the music better. If you're a guitarist that fights tempos by speeding up and slowing down without warning, playing with your eyes closed can improve your interpretation of the songs rhythms and tempos. Without your eyes to guide you, you'll find that your listening skills will heighten and your adjustments to the song's tempo will be more accurate.
Learning to connect better with your instrument in any fashion that you find reliable is a good thing. The next time that you have a guitar practice, see if you can improve upon your skills by taking your eyes away from the fret board and relying on your ears and fingers. - 18424
About the Author:
Kyle Hoffman is an experienced guitarist that enjoys performing on stage and just playing as a hobby. If you're looking to create a solid foundation to play the guitar the RIGHT way, visit How To Guitar Play as part of Kyle's popular guitar weblog, How To Guitar Tune
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