Why NLP Accelerated Learning Techniques Are Useful For Learning To Play The Guitar

This article is about how you can learn NLP Accelerated Learning Techniques by applying those techniques to learning to play guitar.

Playing a guitar is a combination of skills and knowledge in a real time situation. Learning to do this quickly and easily is a real test of NLP and Accelerated Learning applications.

Playing a guitar is all about putting your fingers in the right place at the right time without hesitation, pause for thought or break in the flow. This might seem easy but consider what happens to get your fingers in the right place. If you are reading music then you have to translate the dots and lines to finger positions. If you are improvising you have to listen to the rest of the band and using your knowledge and experience play the most appropriate notes in response.

Learning music is a perfect environment for NLP Techniques. Many people have preconceived notions about music. It is difficult, you need talent and reading music is complex. These preconceived ideas and beliefs are often not helpful.

By breaking down the unhelpful beliefs and installing empowering ones you can start to build momentum making the learning of music very simple. One of the best applications of Accelerated Learning in music is Duncan Lorien’s Understanding of Music Seminar. Duncan takes the time to increase people’s understanding of the basic components of music and how anyone can apply them. He does this deliberately to break those old, unhelpful beliefs.

Practice is an area where musicians don’t always help themselves. Taking the time to find practice routines that stretch and challenge you enough to develop but not so much that you can’t perform is useful. Only PERFECT practice makes perfect so finding the right practice drills is imperative.

Perhaps a typical situation for a guitarist is finding a small section of a new piece of music they are learning that causes them trouble. Usually they will over practice that sections until it is perfect and then have difficulty putting it back into the whole piece. Along with this they might criticise themselves and install unhelpful beliefs and emotions about that part of the piece of music and their ability to play it.

You could take the difficult section and turn it into a series of finger exercises playing at different speeds, frets and keys…even different fingers. All of a sudden you have taken a problem and turned it into a routine for developing your muscle memory and flexibility. Celebrating this would be a true NLP Accelerated Learning approach.

By designing exercises carefully you only need to practice ten minutes a say to get significant progress. Duncan Lorien’s Understanding of Music Seminar actually contains 100 ten minute lessons that dramatically improve your playing ability. A skilled trainer can show you haw to break down a complex skill into sections and develop Accelerated Learning exercises from it. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you these techniques. Learning to play the guitar has the added benefit of teaching you how NLP Training and Accelerated Learning can be used for learning complex skills.

Developing good practice routines and developing empowering beliefs are just two factors in developing skills using accelerated learning. The best way of understanding how to do this effectively is to invest in a good NLP Training Course.