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Learning guitar – How long does it take to be able to play?

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How long does it take a complete beginner to learn to play a guitar properly?

My pat-ready answer is ‘not very long‘. For a more detailed one, it depends on what you mean by ‘properly’. There are a few stages of guitar learning

that everyone goes through and each one of these relate to different levels of skill. Certain things you will learn quickly and others will take longer. For example,

if your final destination is the ability to strum sing-a-long songs on the beach or around the fire you’ll reach your goal faster than the guy who wants to play speedy

metal solo’s.

Here’s a breakdown of the stages of learning guitar and the approximate time it might take you to get there.

Playing Basic Chords – This is usually the first benchmark new players reach: The ability to strum and switch between the basic guitar chords. At this point

you don’t necessarily have the chords memorized and aren’t able to play many songs, but you are managing to fret and strum them. This level can be reached within one

week.

Playing easy songs – You’ve mastered more guitar chords and have been practicing them enough that you’ve got most of them memorized and are able to strum and

switch between them without much hassle, and you can even take your eyes of the fretboard when doing this. This means you can play songs! You can reach this level n

two to three weeks of daily practice, though for many it might be longer.

Playing Barre and Power Chords – Moving right along, you’re advancing to a level where most self-taught guitarists never go. Barre Chords are much more

difficult than open (or standard) chords and learning these takes extra practice and a different kind of strength in your fretting hand. It is possible to play most

barre chords in two months, quicker for some who practice regularly.

Fingerpicking – The ability to pluck individual strings and play simple riffs (riffs are short solo pieces on individual strings) is a new skill your strumming

hand needs to learn. This can usually be achieved in two to three months if you learn by practicing and play easy guitar tablature.

Lead Guitar – A Lead guitarist is the person who’s got the audience at his beckoning. Playing solo’s and using techniques like slurring, sliding and vibratois

a whole new set of rules and I’d give it three to four months. This might be way off depending on what kind of music we’re talking about – playing acoustic solo’s

might take less time, but metal solo’s will take significantly longer.

The improviser – A guitarist that can improvise riffs and solos in the middle of a live song, has moved from the realm of amateurship to being a semi-pro.

Depending on how much talent you have and what your musical background is, this might take anything from six months to a year.

Please note that these time lengths are given as a very broad estimate and aimed at people with little musical experience. If it takes you longer than a

week to learn the basic chords, don’t get upset. These times are not set in stone and you have to learn and develop at a pace that’s natural and comfortable for you!

Leon Potgieter is a musician with many years of live performing experience. His website http://www.pluckandplayguitar.com is the ultimate online portal for absolute

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Presently, there are four major categories of mobile app development technologies which rule the market:
Web-based technologies (HTML5/CSS3/JS) and frameworks (JQuery, Sencha, )
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One of the key advantages of Web-based technologies is that their deployment process is quick and that helps in the processes of App Stores. Many developers perceive this feature as a huge benefit to in a space which is dominated by some vendors including Apple and Amazon. Some analysts are of the view that web technologies welcome phishing and fraud since the hackers and attackers look out for young browsers for infringing security.

Sometimes mobile web based solutions are stricken by the same problems that their desktop counterparts face. These solutions have to face browser incompatibilities, latency, etc. Additionally, they have to bear the slow progress of web standards. Mobile Web apps do have a market in the future but it is important that one should take care while choosing a technology and should be aware of its advantages and limitations.

Apps developed in native technologies have managed to find a good market in the mobile app development space but they are dependent on old proprietary desktop technologies and tools. For example, the iPhone SDK is based on a technology that was developed in the 1980s. The same is the problem with Android SDK which is reminiscent of the decade-old Swing SDK and its declarative UI architecture.

This is the prime reason why “native” mobile app development technologies look unnecessarily complex since they are not based on simplified mobile solution construction. Developing a native application for both the iPhone and Android devices requires advanced development skills and is extremely complex too. The native technologies are not sustainable enough since there is a very small number of companies which develop mobile applications using native SDK directly.

This has led to the emergence of cross-platform solutions in the market including PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, AppMobi etc. There is also a small number of companies who rely on Domain Specific Languages through which one can create native code. The best advantage of native code is that it can be changed, compiled and deployed once the app is written from scratch. Additionally, one of the best advantages of using domain specific languages for mobile app development are the rapid development cycles which can be achieved due to the simplification of the programming model.

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