r/guitarlessons • u/cattos420 • 7d ago

Question Learning method

Am I learning wrong? I've stumbled across a few posts saying they're learning the chords and scales but I've just been trying to learn how to play songs. Should I stop that and start doing scales and memorising chords/notes?

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u/Upstairs-Glove7424 7d ago

You can do both

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u/TonalContrast 6d ago

This is novel concept...and I totally agree!

OP - carve out time for both. Plan you practice session something like 1 hours to learn songs, 15 minutes new chords, 15 minutes scales. Or whatever your time allows, but set a time for each and stick to it, ever if it's just 10 or 15 minutes for each. Once you hit the time limit you move on, it's a discipline or else you get stuck on the one thing and then don't have time left for the others.