HOW you practice the guitar is the single greatest factor that determines whether you will become a good guitar player, or struggle endlessly to play. "Good" practice makes you better at being a good guitarist - "bad" practice makes you better at being bad guitarist!
"Practicing" the guitar essentially means "training" the fingers. Like training a dog, the fingers are very capable of learning new skills, but they must be taught on their terms.
The most important thing to do when we practice is to teach the fingers to move with relaxed control. If we do not know how to train the fingers to have relaxed control as they move, we will not play well, it is as simple as that.
The muscles that operate the fingers must be taught in a certain way in order for the fingers to move smoothly and easily on the guitar. That is because the muscles and nerves of our body follow certain "laws" when it comes to learning new movements. If you do not follow these laws when you practice, your muscles, and the fingers they are connected to, will struggle to play the guitar. They will struggle for one very simple reason:
Bad practice on guitar ties up your fingers, and all the muscles needed to play (which means the entire upper body) with tension - and the fingers simply cannot operate when they are full of crippling tension.
The following video will go into a bit more detail......
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