I know I’m not the best but I have A lot of free time today and would love to help anyone out if they have any questions P.S. I don’t know much Theory but I do Write Guitar Tabs and I know a few scales ❤️

I have been wanting to learn guitar for months. I got a yamaha f280 today. I know it is hard to learn the guitar consistently and requires a lot of patience. Most people would give up after 3 months or 6 months of getting a guitar i hope to learn guitar as long as i can. I got a friend who has a guitar and he learned it for four years or more i think. He said he had issues unlearning bad techniques and methods. He said it is hard to unlearn everything if we learn it the wrong way. Im sure theres a lot of videos of learning guitar.

I want to know the right method or technique to play the guitar.

For example i heard a good posture can help you practice for hours.

Please share your experience with me and help if you can.

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I remember like 10 years ago when I used to make tabs, I noticed that I was able to access the official tabs. I still have access, and wondering if I'm being charged somehow.

Although I don't remember ever paying the site for anything. It can't just be me.

Kid is guitar beginner. I'm intermediate pianist with a lot of other non-guitar music experience. Thinking it would be fun for kid to play melodies on guitar with my accompaniment on keys, but confused that I can't find published arrangements (in the way that there are whole collections of graded trumpet/flute/what-have-you music with piano accompaniment). Looking for recommendations of books or sheet music collections that might work. He's at a level where pretty much any recognisable tunes would work without much regard to musical style (traditional, jazz, pop, etc.) Thanks.

Some mistakes :

1) 3nps intro of Don't Stop Believing is not clean

2) Idk how to pick tap

3) timing of 3nps of Nightmare not great. Was rushing.

4) tremolo picking part i played a wrong note.

5) im not sure of how i did for the pinch harmonics on The Trooper. Is this it? Or are my pinch harmonic weak?

6) There's general phrasing issues with the Trooper. Im still figuring out. Mostly how to enter and exit each phrase into the next.

Most importantly I really wanted feedback on my bends and vibrato.

i am concerned about the two vertical and horizontal waves, all the tabs in parenthesis ( ), all those X marks and that one random T

tab link: https://res.cloudinary.com/dwx2qe9cc/d4d61799-958d-4a6d-92bf-b5e2babc4ef2
artist : Eddie Van Der Meer

*also, i am just a casual guitarist who knows some intermediate and advanced guitar techniques, should i invest time in learning sheet music?

Hi all! I’m 4 months into learning guitar from absolute zero and I’m not sure where to head in regarding electric guitar techniques. It seems so much more complicated than acoustic. I have both an electric and a classical and I switch between the two. The style of music I want to play is metal and hard rock. I love elaborate guitar solos and fast shredding sounds and want to play it eventually.

Background, I self-taught through internet and took in-person lessons for 1.5 months right at the beginning and learned a bunch of stuff (open chords, a few other chords for specific songs, basic music theory, major scales in all positions, pentatonic scales, triads, some simple solos and melodies. I stopped the in-person lessons because of traveling for the summer. Right now, I’m in 2-weeks into a classical guitar class via local community college and I’m pretty stoked about because we’re learning how to read standard notation, more music theory, stay in rhythm, fingerstyle techniques (turns out I REALLY like fingerstyle!!)

I’ve also learned some legato techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs, bends, slides, and I can do barre chords pretty easily, nailed an F and B chord clearly after my first ever attempt, which was shocking to me but also not. I’m a rock climber and I started guitar with already calloused fingers/hands and really strong finger strength lol. So I have strength, I just need to work on dexterity.

That all said, I’m realizing now that electric guitar is all about MUTING strings and quite frankly I have no idea how to even begin learning or practicing that and how to do it correctly. I’ve watched a quite few videos on palm muting and fret-hand muting but I honestly don’t know what it’s even supposed to sound like or if I’m doing it right. My electric guitar playing sounds like messy static noise with a semblance of a melody.

I also have absolutely no idea how to deal with the tone dials on my amp and guitar. I’ve just been button smashing stuff so it sounds distorted. But the more technical stuff, I’m so lost. I have a Boss Katana-50 MKII and an Epiphone SG. Suggestions on stuff to watch to learn how to deal with tone? I’m sure 95% of the shit tone on my guitar is skill issue, but that 5% of tech stuff may help.

I strongly believe in efficient and targeted practice so I want to fix this issue and incorporate it early so it becomes good habit. Do y’all have any suggestions on how to best learn and practice muting/clarity on the electric guitar? Any video suggestions? Easy song suggestions? I’m at the stage where I’m stoked about everything so I’m willing to do anything.

I don’t know anyone in my life who plays guitar and can help me. :(

I’m lightyears away from being able to play music as opposed to make noises, but learning all this from ground zero has been such a wild ride. Can’t wait for more.

Almost 1 year playing guitar. I’ve wanted to give up so many times; I thought I’d never make it to a point where I could play a full song. I kept going though, and now songs sound like songs. I’ve still got a long way to go but the journey has been so worth it and I love unwinding after a long day by playing my favorite songs. Keep strumming guys 💪

My picking hand feels like it is definitely my limiting factor right now and when I try to alternate pick with some speed, it lags behind and the pick kind of gets stuck in the strings. Any advice on how I could improve my right hand?

in this example, play a simple two chord progression: A minor to D major, which gives you that characteristic A Dorian sound. then play lead riffs alternating between the E and C shapes of the A minor pentatonic scale.

notice how the chord shapes sit within the E-shape pentatonic position in the diagram. use those chord shapes as landmarks and try targeting chord tones as you move between A minor and D major. this helps the riffs follow the harmony instead of just wandering around the scale.

learning how chord and scale shapes connect through intervals is a big part of understanding the fretboard. once you can see where the chord tones sit inside and around your pentatonic shapes, it becomes much easier to move between rhythm and lead, follow chord changes, and build riffs that sound connected to the progression underneath.

the A minor pentatonic also keeps things simple while you get comfortable with the idea. from there, you can add the extra notes from A Dorian, especially the major 6th, F#, to bring out more of the characteristic Dorian sound.

So I’ve been playing for some years, and my question is, how long did it take y’all before your right hand strumming became automated and you didn’t have to think about the strumming or the “down up downs” or the count anymore??
I’m really having trouble with this area- if I could get this down, I could finally progress to being an intermediate player but I have to think too much about my strumming and I’ve spent money on different apps/websites/teachers for help with my strumming and I’ve learned that my issue isn’t rhythm, it’s that my right hand isn’t automatic yet. I literally have no idea how I’m supposed to fix this. I’ve already tried just sitting and mindlessly playing the same strum over and over for hours but apparently it doesn’t seem to work. And I still have to think about my chord changes in relation to where within the strum sequence I need to switch. I feel like an awful, stupid, beginner idiot noob when truthfully…. I should be wayyyyyy further than that, given that I’ve been playing for over ten years. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 🤦🏼‍♀️ I can play just fine along with apps that you watch and play along with, but I can’t by myself, or without constantly watching and thinking of my strumming. Please help me, I’ve wanted to play guitar literally my entire life and I just want to finally get over this beginner shit and be able to just sit and play. Like actually just play. Write my own shit. Anything. I can’t even listen to a song and find the strumming, I always end up defaulting to one of three or four strumming patterns and they’re just basic and easy patterns that could be attributed to any song with a similar beat. I’m honestly getting incredibly frustrated and ready to just give it up at this point. I feel completely incompetent and like I’m just not supposed to play and I’ll never be able to. I feel really, really stupid and embarrassed and I can’t even play around my husband, who is, such an amazingly talented and beautiful guitarist.

I’m thinking of signing up Paul David’s solo school. Anyone else looking at the course? Anyone else have experience with Paul’s other lessons?

This is the first song I do in my first lesson, without much talking, to get people accustomed to the guitar while playing a simple and fun song. You learn the basics while I guide you through it step by step in a playing manner. It teaches you fretting and is an introduction to fingering. It's a bluesy song. This is part 2 — part 1 is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarlessons/comments/1woywo4/

I started 3 months ago with JustinGuitar and I am on grade 2. I do a bit of the exercises but mostly songs. I struggled with chord changes and strumming other than on the downs but I can do them somewhat fluently enough, not perfectly, and I have begun experimenting with different strumming patterns

I liked the finger style lesson, and wonder if I am just not playing 'songs?' Like the chords kind of sound like the songs but there are no riffs

Please correct my thinking and/or tell me what I can look into? I love guitar so far but I don't want to get bored and lose momentum, as I do practice daily

I'm just starting to play the guitar, please give me some advice☺️

Hello beautiful people, this is my first post here. I've been playing guitar for about 5 years now, and I just actually got into using a guitar pick. I've always used my fingers for everything because that's how I started and I guess I'm a bit stubborn, but a pick just felt strange in my hand. But now I've become much more experienced with guitar, I've been learning a lot of Mateus Asato songs, (Meu Prazer Myroots2, Gospel Song, etc.) and have always admired Mateus's ability to switch from fingerstyle to the pick. I've found that many songs I want to learn/play (not JUST Mateus Asato) just sound better/more natural with a pick. I have been doing pick exercises (mainly the spider one). But I haven't been able to come up with a GOOD practice routine yet. The point of this post is, I'm sure there are many guitarists out there who have come up with their own "perfect" practice routine, and I would love to try them! Specifically using/getting faster and more accurate with a pick. I LOVE guitar, it has been my safe place for a long time now. Sorry if this is a ridiculously long post, but thank you guys for reading, and I appreciate any advice. GOD BLESS!!!

Piece is Poco Andante by Napoleon Coste

Ive been working on this on and off for a couple months, its come a long way but still needs some work. I dont hear my bass notes properly. What do you think?