The best guitarists of the world treat their guitar as their most important object of affection. Most call it their "first love". Keeping this in mind, it's important to understand that a guitar and its player share an important "relationship". Just as every relationship needs to be nurtured with ample time, so does this. If you don't give your guitar enough time, you will never develop a relationship with it. It's important that you feel passionately about your guitar and the music you make with it. Without this passion, you can never be a good musician.

Practice, practice, practice. There's no better advice we can give you. It's the only way of ever learning how to play the guitar. You need not practice for hours together, but yes, it is absolutely essential that you practice regularly; if possible, every day. There is no point in practicing for 5 hours on Sunday and then picking up your guitar next on Friday. You can devote just about 20-30 minutes at a time, but make sure it's on a regular basis.

But what if you are truly passionate about the guitar, but as much as you would love to, you just don't have enough time to devote to it. Every time you look at the guitar you feel like strumming a few notes, but you just don't know if you'll ever be able to create good music with it. May be you really want to learn, but you can spend just a few minutes honing your skills every day. Don't worry. We can give you a few tips which can help you improve your guitaring in spite of your inability to give it the time that it requires.
 

Practice a chord change over and over again until you've perfected it. May be you're having trouble switching from an F barre chord to a D open chord? You could keep practicing this every day and better yourself. As long as you keep practicing, you're constantly making progress.

Focus. It's very important to. Find a skill that you can improve and work on perfecting that. You know you can't devote much time so concentrating on one skill at a time, and you will get far.

Everybody has a favorite song. What's yours? Wouldn't you love to be able to play your favorite song while you sing along? So do just that. At some point, you're bound to get tired of playing only chords and riffs. You're going to want to play some 'music'. Choose a song you want to play and work on it. This way you'll have fun even while you're actually 'working'. Having fun is very important when you're learning and playing music.

You don't have time to take a guitar lesson, but do you think people take lessons all their life? Whatever happened to spontaneity? So what if you don't have the time. Simply having a good ear for music is enough. Play a song and jam along with it. You can keep rewinding it until you've got it just right. This is what most guitarists do once they've got their basics right. It's the perfect way to learn when you're running short of time.

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