As someone who’s been doing it for a while now, I can
personally attest to the fact that playing the guitar is, in one word, AWESOME!
Here are 9 reasons why:
1. It enhances your metal and intellectual capacity
Learning to do something new, and enhancing or working on
your skills is known to be extremely beneficial for your memory and mental
capacity! Studies have shown that musicians who play one or more musical
instruments tend to have higher test and IQ scores than others! Learning new
things on the guitar, playing new songs, improvisation, studying music theory,
and learning different guitar-playing techniques keeps your brain active and
fresh, allows you to remain mentally alert and active, and can help with retention
and help with intellectual capacity-building.
2. Playing the guitar also helps you from a physical point-of-view
A large part of playing the guitar has to do with your body
and your physical well-being. How do you think the likes of Angus Young, Steve
Vai, Joe Satriani and Kirk Hammett continue to play the guitar despite being in
the business for many, many years now? By keeping themselves physically-fit and
in top shape! And that is one of the advantages of playing the guitar; it will
allow you to correct your posture, build stamina strengthen your arms, fingers
and hands, and become more energetic. Warming up before playing increases
blood-flow in your body, and loosens up your joints and muscles. Playing the
guitar will keep you in top shape for many years, provided you do it the
correct way.
3. It helps develop important personality traits, attributes and characteristics
…such as discipline,
patience, self-motivation and time-management
to name just a few of these personality traits and attributes. Learning to play
the guitar is quite tough (as anyone who’s ever attempted to do it will attest
to). Doing so will develop a sense of patience, persistence and perseverance in
you. The discipline that is needed to master the instrument will help you in
your daily routine with countless other tasks in your everyday life. Furthermore,
learning the instrument and everything that accompanies the process of doing so
will allow you to be more self-motivated, and finally, practicing regularly
(every single day, for instance) will help you become more regular with other
tasks in your life, allow you to set schedules and follow them, and be more
sensitive to the importance of time!
4. Making music helps relieves stress
It is a universally-known fact that listening to music is a
great stress-reliever. If listening to music relieves stress, then actually
making music – or in your case, playing the guitar – will allow you to relieve
ten times more stress! Having a bad day or a crappy week, why not pick up that
Les Paul and play some Guns n’ Roses (or whatever helps you relieve stress). The
sound of the acoustic guitar has been known to be very soothing and relaxing,
and playing the guitar can help relax the mind, and even lower blood pressure
and tempers!
5. It helps kill boredom
One of the best things about playing the guitar is that
there’s never a dull or a boring moment in your life! So you find yourself
alone at home with nothing to do? Got a few minutes (or a hours) to kill? Looking
for the best possible way to spend on your free time? Simply pick up your
trusty axe and start playing!
6. You can play the guitar just about anywhere
For me, this is one of the best things about playing the
guitar, you can simply pick it up and play it anywhere that you might be. An
acoustic guitar, in particular, is very portable instrument which you can
easily carry around with you if you’re travelling somewhere (such as on a road
trip, to the park, a trip to the beach, etc.) and they don’t call it the
‘campfire classic’ for nothing! Fire up that grill in your backyard, pick up
your acoustic guitar and you’ll be easily able to entertain not only yourself,
but also your friends and family! Invited to a party, why not take your
acoustic guitar along with you!
7. The bragging rights
Playing the guitar is a skill that only a few people in the
world can acquire. Not everyone can play the guitar, and a large number of
people who attempt to learn the instrument give-up halfway through the process.
In addition, the fact that you can play the instrument can be a great
conversation-starter and gives you great bragging rights (and not to mention, a
way to show-off) as well! Guitar players always bring up the fact that they
play, and the next time you see a hot girl at a bar or a party, you know what
you can tell her if she asks what you do!
8. Playing in a band gives you the opportunity to work as a team
Apart from some of the personality traits an attributes that
we discussed earlier, playing in a band, for instance, gives you the
opportunity to play with other musicians, which develop a sense of teamwork.
Working in a team is one of the most essential skills out there; it allows you
to grow as a person and a human being. Playing with other talented musicians
enables you to collaborate with them in order to make great music. In addition
playing in a band also lets you learn from other musicians and expand your
musical horizons as well!
9. Playing the guitar helps develop social skills
As a guitar player, you’ll get the opportunity to speak with
a large number of people, work with other musicians, collaborate with band
mates, and generally meet with, come across and interact with many different
people on a daily basis. In fact, if you go on tours, you might even come
across people from different cultures, places and countries. All this will help
develop your social skills.
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