25 Mar 07
I got an accoustic for my seventeeth birthday, and I've been teaching myself to play. I've been using guitar lessons from http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
Recently, I've mostly been practicing playing songs; it has helped me with timing and cut down the time it takes me to switch chords. I know about 12 chords. My fingers are getting nice and calloused.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by ark13Practice, practice, and more practice.😀
I got an accoustic for my seventeeth birthday, and I've been teaching myself to play. I've been using guitar lessons from http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
Recently, I've mostly been practicing playing songs; it has helped me with timing and cut down the time it takes me to switch chords. I know about 12 chords. My fingers are getting nice and calloused.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by ark13Cool beans! Thanks for the link! I want to learn to play classical guitar. I need a starting point though, and I think the link should help. I think I'll do a web search and see what else is out there. What do you want to be able to do the most?
I got an accoustic for my seventeeth birthday, and I've been teaching myself to play. I've been using guitar lessons from http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
Recently, I've mostly been practicing playing songs; it has helped me with timing and cut down the time it takes me to switch chords. I know about 12 chords. My fingers are getting nice and calloused.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by reader1107Play songs that I like and write my own.
Cool beans! Thanks for the link! I want to learn to play classical guitar. I need a starting point though, and I think the link should help. I think I'll do a web search and see what else is out there. What do you want to be able to do the most?
If I get good enough, do you think I could replace your cat?
25 Mar 07
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Originally posted by Sariph00It's not so hard for the fist level for sure but the next steps are a pain in the butt for sure! The hardest stringed instrument is the Sitar. But keep up the good work, keep on picking!
The guitar is really easy to just pick up and play compentantly, playing chords etc, but it takes a lot of time and dedication to become truely proficent, it's well worth it when you get there though! (and more often than not it impresses the ladies!! 😉😀 )
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by ark13Of course you can replace my cat. He's starting to shed and cough up furballs. His catnip habit is interfering with his musical career, but he says he can quit any time. It just isn't pretty in the rock and roll cat world.
Play songs that I like and write my own.
If I get good enough, do you think I could replace your cat?
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by Sariph00I hadn't fully read your post which is why I changed mine!
That's sort of what I was getting, anyone can learn to play chords with relatively little practice time (That where I'm at..) but to play properly takes a lot of skill
edit - I was replying to sonhouse, who has now changed his post! 🙄
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by Sariph00I just learnt by playing chord books to fave songs, then getting the full tab & going from there with the solos & riffs etc.
That's sort of what I was getting, anyone can learn to play chords with relatively little practice time (That where I'm at..) but to play properly takes a lot of skill
edit - I was replying to sonhouse, who has now changed his post! 🙄
I'd suggest some of the early Clapton/Cream - it's bluesy but not too difficult.
First tablature book I bought was GNR Appetite for Destruction - jumped in at the deep end I think...
25 Mar 07
Originally posted by ark13lotsa luck there i have one also (lazy to practice) i had an instructor whu sucked he was always stoned..
I got an accoustic for my seventeeth birthday, and I've been teaching myself to play. I've been using guitar lessons from http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
Recently, I've mostly been practicing playing songs; it has helped me with timing and cut down the time it takes me to switch chords. I know about 12 chords. My fingers are getting nice and calloused.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
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25 Mar 07
Originally posted by ark13I have a few friends that play the guitar, I will ask them for you.
I got an accoustic for my seventeeth birthday, and I've been teaching myself to play. I've been using guitar lessons from http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
Recently, I've mostly been practicing playing songs; it has helped me with timing and cut down the time it takes me to switch chords. I know about 12 chords. My fingers are getting nice and calloused.
Does anyone have any advice for me?