Mistakes happen when you play guitar

Beginner guitar players are often devastated by mistakes. Here’s some quotes from seasoned guitarists on how you can learn from your mistakes:
“The worst reason I sucked was because I twisted in my lazy own ethic with a rock ethic that had been established by Bob Dylan. The Dylan ethic placed songwriting high above all other facets of the process in creating musical recordings. I decided that the only thing that mattered was the songwriting, just so that I didn’t have to learn the other facets, such as being a better musician. That attitude held me back for two decades, in the sense that I didn’t start to pay attention to my playing until the late nineties. Before that it was just sloppy chord changes that you wouldn’t want to hear recordings of.”
http://www.tangentsunset.com/guitar.htm

“Stringing along with dead strings. Yes, change your strings before that important recording session and no, adding compression to increase sustain is not a suitable substitute. With new strings, your axe will sound brighter, notes will sustain longer, and tuning will be more consistent. Don’t just boil your strings – go ahead and splurge, spend the bucks, and re-string.”
http://www.harmony-central.com/articles/tips/guitar_recording_mistakes/

“When you are forming a chord it’s really important to visualize where each finger is going to move to, and how it’s going to happen. I guarantee you will speed up your chord changes if you follow these simple steps: Look at where your fingers are now, visualize where they need to be and figure out the shortest distance you need to move them in order to form the new chord. Sometimes you won’t have to move half your fingers because they’ll be used in the other chord. Keep looking for these ways to speed up your playing”
http://www.instantguitarist.com/blog/learn-guitar-chords-top-10-mistakes/

“First of all, mistakes have a special place in my heart, because I am a mistake. I don’t want to get too personal, here, but my birth was not planned by the people who made me. I wasn’t supposed to be conceived. I wasn’t supposed to happen. But I did, and most people are pretty happy how this “mistake” turned out.
But what about mistakes in music? How are we supposed to look at them in a way that helps our playing? Let me ask you this: have you ever made a mistake that introduced a new sound to you? Haven’t there been times when you wanted to play a particular chord but ended up playing another, and the unexpected sound made you say, “Oh, wow! That was cool! Let’s do that again!” ”
http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=275

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