Who wouldn’t want to learn the guitar? It doesn’t take long to realize that guitar
players get most of the glory and are often the coolest people in the
room. You don’t have to be a fan of Guns
N Roses to know the name Slash but how many people can tell you the name of their
drummer?
Yes, you can go on YouTube and see videos of preschoolers
that would make Eddie Van Halen question his own achievements, but these kids
are prodigies and your kid more than likely is not.
Don’t feel bad though.
Most great and successful musicians were not child prodigies
either. They just practiced and worked
at it. So, back to the question at hand;
at what age is a child ready for guitar lessons?
I have taught thousands of guitar lessons over the years, and
from my experience children under six have hurdles that make learning the
guitar challenging. Now before you close
out this screen and decide to wait before registering your child for lessons,
please read on as the answer to this question isn’t as simple as throwing out a
number.
1. Whose idea was this anyway? There is a difference in guitar lessons being
the child’s idea versus the parent’s idea.
Obviously dragging your kid to their first lesson no matter how old the
child, is a sign that that things may not go well.
- The bad experience: Once a child is open to the idea of music lessons, we don’t want to put out that fire. If the child’s first foray into music lessons is with an instrument that is too cumbersome or requires cognitive skills that are not yet developed, it could lead to the student quitting. Some will leave feeling that music is not for them. The truth is that kids of any age can benefit from music classes, but the path they were on was not right for them.
Bottom line is that you want to introduce your child to a fun and friendly environment with a teacher that can nurture their inner Beethoven. This can be done at any age. The tool may be guitar, piano, drums, or singing but more importantly it's who's teaching them.
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