Babies learn more in the first few years of their lives then we will ever learn for the rest of our lives. Besides a brain being on supercharge for learning what else can we learn from observing their behaviour that we can apply to learning the guitar?
How do babies learn?
When you observe a baby trying to learn how to crawl or to walk you find that they don’t practice the same thing every single day! You don’t see them practising trying to roll over every single day, they practice different skills. So one day it might be rolling over, the next day it might be grabbing the toys the next day after that it could be throwing their toys.
How does that relate to learning to play guitar?
Learning the guitar is the same we don’t practice the same school over and over again until achieved at one school before moving on to something else we learn skills simultaneously. And by practising different things on a rotation we give our brain space and time to absorb these new skills before picking them back up again and practising them again.
Variation and time between guitar practise sessions
Having variety and space between practising different skills that you’re working on will help your brain become more fission to learning these new skills. Weathers new skills understand your notes on the fretboard new chords strumming patterns. Anything at all. Try to keep your practising sessions varied! This will help them to be more fun and less repetitive as well so your practising will be more enjoyable.
You might even find that you get better skill a few days after taking a break from it because your brain subconsciously has been practising it for you when you sleep! That’s pretty cool hah! It’s the same with babies.
I hope this helps you to get head ahead, understanding how you can vary your guitar practice and give yourself the time and space so that you can actually learn guitar quicker without feeling like you are doing repetitive drills day in and day out.