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Practice Playing Music
At this stage, however, practice is the key. Paderewski, one of the greatest pianists ever, would practice a bar of music as many as forty times until he had it right. Before any concert, he insisted on rehearsing the whole work through even though he had played it so many times that he knew it by heart. On one occasion, he performed before Queen Victoria. "Mr. Paderewski," she said, "you are a genius." "That may be," he answered, "but before I was a genius, I was a drudge." The key is practice. So start now!
No Pain No Gain
At first, your finger tips will be sore, but they will harden up as you continue. Movements will begin to flow as you feel more at home with the instrument. Now that you have three chords mastered, you can accompany a simple chorus like: If you move the capo up to just behind the fifth fret you can now play "Amazing Grace" with the same three chords but in a higher key (G). With no capo, the guitar plays in the key of D with the D chords, but with the capo behind the second fret you will now play in the key of E. Similarly, the third is F and the fifth is G, the seventh is A and so on.
"Practice is the key"
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