Any Guitar Players Here? I Want To Learn How

[lost in a sea]

can't i just get it uploaded to my brain like Neo?

sigh one day

 

[John Deere]

Find a friend or several to play with. I practiced all that stuff in my bedroom for quite awhile but once I started playing with other people regularly my playing improved a lot very quickly. It's a lot more fun, too.

 

[HOPS5K]

learn claptons wonderful tonight, grab and acoustic, sit by the camp fire, play and sing it. panties will drop

Awesome I will remember that. Just need to find a girl to play for

It's getting better, still learning. I can get the F chord when I'm just practicing it, but when trying a song (Speed of the Sound of Lonliness), I usually mess up but can get sound out of it. Also got a Janis Joplin song (Bobby McGee) which I can do okay with..then Guns n Roses (Sweet Child o Mine) is hard for me, but in time.

I learned a new chord this week, D. Still trying to get to it in a song when changing chords takes a second, but it's good.

 

[festerous]

What makes switching chords difficult at first is that most folks try to move their fingers individually instead of using the wrist to place them into position. While fretting a G chord move your wrist back towards the head stock. If your fingers are anything like mine you'll notice that they naturally fall into the G shape. From that position move your wrist so it's hugging the back of the neck with a little coaxing it should fall into a D shape.

 

[HOPS5K]

just got back from my weekly lesson. she asks me to play my chords and I actually got the F chord on my first try

I still need practice on 'hopping' from one chord to the next, but according to the teacher my sound is very good for this early on.

 

[1TWISTEDTRUCKER]

Good on Ya,,, ROCK ON!!!

Peace;1TT

 

[GP73LPC]

Find a friend or several to play with. I practiced all that stuff in my bedroom for quite awhile but once I started playing with other people regularly my playing improved a lot very quickly. It's a lot more fun, too.

this^^^

not only does it make you a better player, it's a bunch a fun making music with friends

 

[growerwannabe]

I had that feeling like 3 years ago. I learned how to play so fast it scared me. I read a bunch of pdfs on scales, where to put your fingers, other basics... That was with a cheap used $99 off-brand POS. Then I got a Epi Les Paul. Black with the three gold pickups. Turns out it's supposed to be as good as the Gibson LP. It changed everything. That's when all the stuff I'd learned on the cheap one amounted to more than getting some cheap, tinny, plunky sound out of a bad guitar. Now I was playing effing rock & roll. Playing it well. It's fun. Use online TAB sites to play fun stuff, but also learn scales and basic chords. Doesn't really matter what order. Oh, and muscle memory. It's fun when you can be carrying on a conversation with someone while your fingers are cranking out the solo to 2112.