Most free acoustic guitar lessons contain redundant information regarding exercises and chord patterns you should practice, but they don’t really give away any important information. The reason is that you can already find this stuff everywhere.

However it is easy to establish what is important. The division is usually between left hand technique and right hand technique. “There isn’t a shortcut to improve your left and right hand technique other than just practice” is what you usually get, because there are so many details it would be useless to enlist them all. First off all you will never remember all of them when you are struggling with your technique. Second of all you will not be able to hold your hand in the correct way because your muscles are not strong enough.

What you aim for is what’s important; if you’re ambitious and want to play faster than any guitar player then you should aim for perfect technique, with as little variation as possible. This way your brain will get used to the pattern and you will stop thinking about it, that’s when your hands take over. A tip for these free acoustic guitar lessons: you can’t be fast unless you know what you’re going to play very clearly. Eventually your moves will become sharp and you will easily play flurry of notes on the guitar.

The problem with trying to be fast is that singing the same thing over and over is really boring. Sometimes I wonder how I lasted so long doing this. Anyway, apart from learning all these scales and chords as they tell you in free acoustic guitar lessons, which are indeed very good, you should try and improvise off of the basic stuff. The greatest songs started from simple things. I’m not saying to totally neglect study, but instead of doing that all the time (boring) try and work on your imagination a little bit too.