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Learning to play the guitar against all the naysayers

Sometimes it’s easy to feel sad about learning the guitar. Especially when everyone around you doesn’t believe in you.

I’ve had many of my family members say, oh we don’t have the music gene in our family. Well you’ve inherited short fingers. Oh what about your career? When are you going to find time to practise? You’ve never stuck to anything in your life. Oh you gave up the guitar when you were a teenager, what’s going to be different now?

I thought all of those things until I found a guitar school that believed in me. At Guitar Tuition East London, they actually did want me to get better at playing the guitar. It was so inspirational seeing them help all the other students to achieve what they want.

Recently I even attended their charity concert and it was so great seeing all the other students there performing: