If you’re into a particular style of music, say jazz, rock or acoustic, only learning songs in that genre can actually stunt your growth as a guitar player.
While it’s not always fun to learn songs we don’t love, it can be great for your development as a guitar player to go ahead and start learning some tunes that are outside your comfort zone.
Why is this important?
Different genres of music utilize different styles. For example if you’re into metal and shredding you’ll probably be great at playing loud and fast, how ever put an acoustic guitar in your hand and ask you to play a nice soft palm muted melody and you’d be lost.
Learning different techniques not only makes you appreciate your main style more it also allows you to explore and possibly meld new techniques from another genre into your own.
How to Do it?
Ideally you’re going to want to learn a few tunes from a different genre not pick up “styles”, so I suggest finding a few of the popular tunes right now from another genre and finding the tab or music for them.
Download the songs MP3 so you get a feel for how the tune sounds and it’s rhythm. Then take the tab/music and learn that tune.
After a few of these you can start to meld these new styles and techniques into your main playing style. It can really help expand your creative horizons and your skills as a guitar player.
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http://www.learnguitarblog.com/learning-to-tune-your-guitar-by-ear/
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