Will i be good at playing the guitar in 2 years?

Question

if i stay dedicated and practice everyday?

im 14 now and want to be good by the time i am 16

Answer 1

Getting to a point where you can play easy songs is easy and fun. And a perfectly acceptable goal. But if you really want to get GOOD, you definitely need to have commitment! You want to improve, you have to work on your technique.

Some classical training would be very useful for finger dexterity, even if you just want to play speed metal. Work on scales and music theory. If you're really seriously dedicated and mean business, you could try this every few days:

Warm up and technique 15 minutes

Scales and arpeggios    15 minutes

Chords and voicings      15 Minutes

Sight reading                    15 Minutes

Theory                                 15 Minutes

Rhythm and timing        15 Minutes

Practiced material         15 Minutes

New material                    15 Minutes

Open practice                   15 Minutes

But above all, make sure you're having fun, or you won't practice and therefore won't improve. So feel free to mess around and improvise! That's important.

Have fun, hope this helped...

Answer 2

Being able to play takes 2 things:  talent and practice.  If you have some talent, practice will make you much better.  I don't see why you can't be good by 16, especially if you take lessons or buy some sort of program to help you learn.

Answer 3

Yes, if you're very dedicated.

And you only really need to learn a few chords to play a song. Tons of songs were written with just a few chords.

Answer 4

Perhaps. Some people really can only get so far, talent-wise. It's just not in them. I've known a few like this. They can play but.....it's not the same as when you witness someone who just oozes music and the guitar is an extension of themselves...kinda hard to explain but you'd know it if you saw it type of thing. I started playing the guitar when I was 15. I fiddled with it for a year or so and then put it down. I'm now 30 and just recently picked it back up and have been playing for about 6 mos practicing every day. The only thing I can say is that I wish I'd never gotten frustrated and bored with it and kept at it when I was younger. So to you I say, keep at it. If it is a labour of love, it will come. Enjoy it.

Answer 5

It depends how much you practice. Try to get some lessons to get you started (either that or a really good guitar instruction book, depending on your learning style.) I'm sure there are free instructional videos on guitar all over YouTube if you can't afford or find a guitar teacher near you. If you're going the book route, try buying William Leavitt's "A Modern Method For Guitar." It includes a lot of theory and note-reading, which are very useful for song-writing, especially if you want it to be adaptable to include any other instrumental parts.

A recent newspaper article around here about an opera singer cited a study that determined that most skills can be mastered in 3 years of playing 6 hours per day. If you can get yourself to play 6 hours a day for 2 years, you will be a bomb guitar player by the time you're 16. And by the time you're 17, you will be a guitar master!

Keep in mind: mastering the guitar takes 3 years, supposedly, but being 2/3rds of the way to having it mastered is plenty to write very interesting songs, and impress the ladies at a party.

Answer 6

Yeah Sure. but dat mins practice everyday.

u need to have a little talent too.

perhaps one and a half hour a day.