One is focused on creating "width" from hopping around YouTube videos, teachers and systems... knowing a little about a lot of different things - usually, in a surface way that it is not musical, the other is focused on creating depth.
Guitar Program and teacher hoppers buy into random lessons without context -> binge the lessons for two weeks -> implement it for a little while -> don’t see results -> can’t put their ego aside and ask for help -> skip to another teacher, strategy, or online course -> repeat.
Successful guitarists know what they want -> decide on the most effective strategy as the vehicle -> learn the strategy -> implement with speed -> rigorously collect feedback from their teacher/group, jam friends etc., fine tune, and reiterate -> create incremental improvements -> breakthrough -> experience quantum growth.
Every strategy and model has its own success stories. Each and every one of them reached that level by drilling their foundations DEEP below ground, before achieving the mastery that led to the explosive growth above ground.
If you tend to scrap everything and go on a shiny object hunt whenever things get hard, you’ll just find yourself back at square one. Investing time, money and effort into creating more width… only to become a jack of all trades and a master of none. The guitar sits in the corner, gathering dust.. or, worse. You actually keep at it, repeating the same mistakes and plateaus for years and months on end.
But if you scrap everything and go on a shiny object hunt whenever things get hard, you’ll just find yourself back at square one.
Was speaking to a guitar student I’ve been working with for close to 2 years.
Just like how every good teacher/coach would, I asked “What made you want to keep working together?”
“Instead of giving me more stuff, you kept reigning me back to what to focus on. The radical simplicity in everything we do… that itself changed everything.”
Option A: Multiple guitar learning methods and YouTube teacher/channels working poorly, each requiring time and money to implement and maintain, leading to your total burnout and overwhelm status.
High stress, low results, impossible to breakthrough and grow talent, leaving you with questions upon questions and tons of technique issues.
Option B: 1-2 main guitar practice goals working at a masterful level, churning amazing returns on your well-planned and well-executed lessons and practices led by a focused, highly aware teacher/coach.
Minimal competing on what to practice and how, low stress, easy to measure, simple, scalable, predictable.
I’d go for option B, 10 times out of 10.
Pick one and run with it.
