5 Top Benefits from playing the guitar!!

There are many advantages to starting your musical journey and learning how to play an instrument. I have been playing guitar for the last six years and there has been countless benefits ranging from my personal life to my job, the advantages I am going to list here are ones I have discovered in my own life.

1. It opens up a whole new world to you, what I mean is, all your favourite songs that you used to listen to, you can now learn on guitar and appreciate them on a whole new level. When you listen to songs you will appreciate them on a whole new level also as you will have the perspective of a musician.

2. You will gain more confidence. Before I started playing guitar I was far from the most confident person in the world but after I started playing I had a skill I was proud of and I became a lot more confident in general. Another way playing an instrument can help your confidence is if you eventually play in a band as you will have to withstand your bandmates' judgement of your ability and when you play your first few gigs you won't be nervous about anything ever again. My theory is if your nervous about something, the more you do it the more confident you will get.

3. Stress relief. Let's face it, sometimes life just throws a curveball at you or maybe you just have a bad day once in a while but wouldn't it be great if you had a way of relieving that stress? Since I started playing guitar I've discovered nothing gets you over the blues better than cranking an amp up full and letting her roar! There's nothing more satisfying or stress relieving than playing through a few simple songs and I guarantee if you are in a bad mood it will certainly calm you down and help to relax you. I'm not sure what it is but playing guitar just seems to put everything into perspective for me.

4. Community. A big advantage of playing the guitar is that you will be part of the international community of guitarists. Whether it is in your local youth group, an online forum or in a guitar shop you will be surrounded by people who have similiar interests to yourself almost like a family. It enters you into the more general community of musicians, from drummers to bassists and this is very important especially if you plan on getting a band together. Feeling part of a community is very important when playing an instrument in many ways including: selling and buying equipment to trying to recruit members for your band.

5. The obvious. The obvious advantage of playing an guitar is that will be officially badass, all your idols who play guitar are badass so obviously guitar=badass and the ladies sure love a badass, also if you play guitar there's always a chance that you might beome rich and famous some day and again the ladies love the rich and famous.

Peace out!!