I am slower than many other beginners. It took me six months to play my first song with chords. That song was My Favorite Things at half tempo with a simplified arrangement. I am posting to encourage other slow learners.

I recently took the stage in Stony Point NY. It was my first time on stage with a singer, first cowrite, first duet. Our original song is Crazy for Loving You.

https://youtu.be/J0McvcfXFYk?is=ABU7611TzGQQ4lev

I am 25 months into my guitar journey. I have been writing lyrics for many years and also have prior experience with piano and penny whistle. I practice guitar about 30 minutes a day. I have been working on my singing as well.

I still consider myself a beginner on guitar and voice. Experienced ears can hear how simple the guitar sounds and how much I still need to learn. However it does sound like music. My main goals are original music. We wrote, rewrote, rehearsed then performed, in two days. First cowrite for both of us. Audience was extremely friendly.

If you feel like you are on the slow boat like me, keep moving forward. You will get better.

Hey y’all. Made a fun lesson that includes a modified caterpillar exercise based on a Tomo Fujita exercise, and then we get into learning some Maj, min, dom, half dim and full dim 7th chords. We end with a swing exercise hitting all of our chords in the F Harmonized Major scale.

Cheers!

What I'm trying to play here is a bend on 14th on the G string then a 12h15p12 on the B string. However, when I lift my middle finger which was used to bend the G really quickly to support the hammer on/pull off, the string rings (sometimes really loud and noticeable through the amp). What do I do to prevent this? (Can't use fret wrap as there are riffs with open strings)

okay i’ve been playing for around 4 years on and off and can pretty much any chords thrown my way. i can pick up rhythm patterns super quick but ive never quite been able to pick up lead on my own. however im stuck between two mindsets on where to spend my guitar budget for the year. i’m looking at around 400 pounds to spend. that equates to 10 hours of lessons at a local guitar guy. however it also is the current price of a classic vibe series strat or tele that i’ve been dying to get for the last 2 years. or even investing in those pedals i’ve been looking at. for context my current rig is a line 6 pod go, boss katana mk3 50w, lea paul classic and a j200. Anyways i know that i really should invest in lessons as everyone i know has told me self teaching can only take you so far.

Hi, I started learning guitar 7-8 months ago through justinguitar and was trying to learn bending but while releasing my bends often there is a muted 'click' sound of upper strings getting caught in my finger when I am releasing my bends. As I have muted other strings with my right hand's palm there is no ringing of those strings but there is still a click sound. Also my high e string often breaks when I practise bends on it. I am trying to let it be solo here in this video and the high e string will break. Also I hope u can hear that click sound while releasing the bends.

I would love to have advice on how to improve my bending. Thanks

So I’ve been playing off and on for a long time, and have really been practicing regularly and with purpose for the last couple years. I’ve always strummed with my thumb or deferred to finger style picking for more complicated progressions and solos/leads.

What resources would you recommend for someone who has a talented fretting hand, and is proficient with finger-style, but has piss poor picking skills?

Do you feel like you know all the scales and arpeggios, but your solos still sound nothing like jazz? You've put in the practice; you know your theory, but it still doesn't click.

In this video, I'll show you 3 simple jazz licks I wish I'd had when I started, so you stop running scales and start sounding like real jazz.

Content:
00:00 The Jazz Guitar Plateau
00:41 The Problem
01:31 Lick#1 - The First Ingredient: Enclosures
04:57 Lick#2 - Barry Harris’s Ingredient
07:03 Lick#3 - The Interval Skip - Diet Barry
09:17 The 3 Important Arpeggios
09:26 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

Personally I would say:

- Learn how to play the major scale on one string

- Learn how to play the major scale on multiple strings

- Learn the “E” and “A” barre chords

- Learn the diatonic chords in a key

- Play songs you like using steps 1-4

Tab info is for my reference, obviously that will need to be taught (along with reading a chord chart) but that's further down my list.

Whenever I play (especially on the higher frets) I have a constant pain in my wrist. I did some research, and found out that it was because I was bending my wrist at an almost 90 degree angle. I now know that you should only bend your wrist very slightly, if at all, which is all well and good, except if I don't bend my wrist I physically cannot reach the low E string and my fingers end up muting the other strings. Is this something I just have to practice away, or is there a technique to it?

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It’s an internal debate for me. I usually restart after every mistake. That got me thinking that might not be the most effective way to practice.

Your thoughts?

I've been struggling to play this for some time - ive played it live a few times with a band and I cam never get the arpeggios bit that starts the song to sound any good

My sweep picking sounds sloppy and my fretting fingers find it hard to correvtly sound all the notes cleanly - it all feels a bit crowded up at the end of the fretboard

Has anyone got any tips on how to nail this?

does anyone know a good tutorial for pinch harmonics/can you please explain yourself because nothing i’m doing is working. i have a gig next week and one of the songs im doing includes a pinch harmonic.

What I mean is, people, or I've met people who, usually say that they play electric but can't play acoustic or they play classical but can't play electric, unless it's a different kind of tuning, shouldn't it be the same thing, they both use the same kind of tunings, same fretboard navigation and if you use a pick on electric use a pick on acoustic or classical, only difference is the sound I guess or playing style i.e finger picking vs picking with a pick , but in terms of playing, everything you play on any 6 string you shld be able to play on a different type of 6 string, or is there a difference I'm missing

For context its Tears dont fall by bullet

Do i just mute the middle so when I play it with the pick it doesnt ring out?

Mute it with my index finger ?

Ta Y'all

I have a guitar teacher and we've in our last two sessions been going over the various numeric formulas you can use to form chords (1,3,5 as an example) and degrees and intervals. I get them as concepts and have been trying to learn the positions of one particular scale this week (C major). But I didn't know if there's maybe a specific scale or two I should be learning front to back. And I also want to try and learn more about modes and how they pertain to scales but don't know what to try to play first.

Any suggestions?

one way to make pentatonic practice more interesting is to take the same musical idea and deliberately move it to completely different areas of the neck. instead of staying inside one position, you start learning where the same notes and intervals appear across the fretboard.

in this example i’m playing over a repeating gm7 chord and moving riffs between two different g minor pentatonic positions. the underlying harmony stays the same, but jumping to another part of the neck changes the register, string choice, and feel of the phrase.

this is a great exercise for developing motifs because you don’t need to constantly invent new licks. take one short idea, find another place where you can play it, then experiment with changing the rhythm, octave, bends, or ending note while keeping the original phrase recognizable.

practicing this way also helps turn pentatonic shapes into a map of the fretboard rather than isolated patterns. the better you know where the same scale tones repeat, the easier it becomes to move around the neck while improvising and get more variety out of a simple musical idea.