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getting good on guitar as fast as possible - need advice please!

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  • @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    Spent the afternoon yesterday doing this. Hard to find good backing tracks but it was a blast. I think this could be very important for me so thanks a lot!

    You may want to check out some of the SessionBand apps for solid backing tracks. You can also change the keys, arrangements, tempo, etc...

    Great thanks! checking out Hubert Sumlin and SessionBand now.

    Another source is to search for guitar backing tracks on YouTube.

    didn't know. thanks!

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

  • @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

  • Meant to add that I use an app called ProTube, since it supports background audio when listening to YT videos. That frees you up to record or mess with your amp/effects.

  • @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

  • @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

    darn. Youtube forced Apple to remove Protube from the app store Sept. 1st!

  • Was unaware of that. There may be other alternatives on the App Store, but I haven't searched in some time.

  • edited September 2017

    @gkillmaster said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

    darn. Youtube forced Apple to remove Protube from the app store Sept. 1st!

    B_ _T T_M _ ! will allow you to download, record, slowdown, and repitch material from YouTube. Apple have not yet gotten their slimy hands on it. 4.99 in the App Store.

  • @JeffChasteen said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

    darn. Youtube forced Apple to remove Protube from the app store Sept. 1st!

    B_ _T T_M _ ! will allow you to download, record, slowdown, and repitch material from YouTube. Apple have not yet gotten their slimy hands on it. 4.99 in the App Store.

    B_ _T T_M _ ! ?

  • @gkillmaster said:

    @JeffChasteen said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

    darn. Youtube forced Apple to remove Protube from the app store Sept. 1st!

    B_ _T T_M _ ! will allow you to download, record, slowdown, and repitch material from YouTube. Apple have not yet gotten their slimy hands on it. 4.99 in the App Store.

    B_ _T T_M _ ! ?

    He's talking about this, censoring out of fear that Apple will catch on and remove it like so many other YouTube 'service' apps.

    Beat Time! by Guy Shaviv
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beat-time/id469390635?mt=8

  • This thread is absurd . 50 million online guitar schools and YouTube vidoes. No shortage of information anywhere. I don't get it .

  • @Telstar5 said:
    This thread is absurd . 50 million online guitar schools and YouTube vidoes. No shortage of information anywhere. I don't get it .

    that's just it. too many possibilities.

  • @oat_phipps said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @JeffChasteen said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @funjunkie27 said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    just checked them out. There are tons of good ones. Thanks again...

    Glad to help. That should keep you busy for a few months!

    few lifetimes. thanks for ProTube tip. checking on that now.

    darn. Youtube forced Apple to remove Protube from the app store Sept. 1st!

    B_ _T T_M _ ! will allow you to download, record, slowdown, and repitch material from YouTube. Apple have not yet gotten their slimy hands on it. 4.99 in the App Store.

    B_ _T T_M _ ! ?

    He's talking about this, censoring out of fear that Apple will catch on and remove it like so many other YouTube 'service' apps.

    Beat Time! by Guy Shaviv
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beat-time/id469390635?mt=8

    By my favorite outlaw developer!
    A folk hero for our times.

  • @gkillmaster said:
    For the last couple years I started trying to learn guitar and find it really frustrating. Keyboards were much easier for me cause I learned when I was young. But I feel the learning at this age (64) is very slow going and I'm not progressing as I'd like. I play every day but mostly picking out songs I already know and love. I tried doing scales using a metronome and honestly feel impatient with that approach. At this point, if I could know what would genuinely allow for the greatest progress, I would gladly do it in a disciplined fashion but so far have not hit on a good play method that makes me know I'm progressing. Am so curious to find out what you all think helps the most? Doing scale drills, learning songs you love, improvising to backing tracks? What worked best for you all?

    thanks for any thoughts on this,

    Greg K.

    Just sit down and make love to it... there is no easy way, just the right way for each person.
    That's because anatomy, age, time... is different.
    BUT: The guitar will love you more each time you use it
    Learn 3 chords and take it from there. More than 3 is just showing off, said Woody Guthrie :smile:

  • @oat_phipps said:

    @gkillmaster said:

    @oat_phipps said:
    This is the most important thing to learn for lead playing. It will keep your interest while learning because you can transpose it easily and feel good about just jamming along to your favorite songs without worrying about climbing all over the fretboard. The main idea behind me suggesting it is because it's great for developing your own personal 'feel' and expression while playing.

    It is the minor pentatonic scale. Here it is shown in A, and, simply put, that means it works in A minor and C major. You can move it up and down the fretboard as you please. As long as you know the key of the song, you're golden. It works with the root note in any minor key, and for any major scale, just go down three notes to the corresponding relative minor (for example, a song in G major will use the E minor pentatonic scale, a song in G# major will use the F minor pentatonic scale, and so on).

    Sorry to be so windy if this is something you knew already, but I can't stress enough how important it is for learning to play lead without getting easily discouraged.

    thanks! Well, I know these scales pretty well already so I probably just need to spend time jamming! I'm starting to look into using backing tracks, maybe with a drum app on an iPad or something... Or maybe there are website that offer backing tracks. Thanks for the reminder!

    This is a great app for simply creating backing tracks.

    Tin Pan Rhythm by Tin Pan
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tin-pan-rhythm/id963594351?mt=8

    Thanks, I didn't know about this!

    I'm the last person to ask about progressing on the guitar, been playing for over 25 years and Wonderwall is a stretch. ;)

  • Well my 2 cents , lol.... keep it fun, dont be too hard on yourself, I'm not where I want to be on guitar either , I probably never will be but the more you turn it into work the more it will be. Dont forget the " play" in playing guitar, lol

  • Hey, there is this amazing interactive one-to-one realtime thing called 'a guitar teacher'....

    Apologies for the sarcasm, but 3 pages of this thread and no one has mentioned this! Get a good guitar teacher to help you (as well as all the other stuff listed above which is admittedly cheaper). You can even do skype lessons now, but if you get an expert to listen and look at what you need, it could save you a lot of time.

  • I only had one guitar lesson, from my mate's mum while she was ironing. She told me two things which have stood me in good stead:

    1. Don't look at your hands while you are playing
    2. Transition smoothly between chords

    The first I think was really important, to the point where I used to practice at night with the lights out. The second is useful but something that is more down to taste.

    I would add one more rule:

    1. Ignore advice - follow your gut instinct on what excites you personally
  • @Tickletiger said:
    Hey, there is this amazing interactive one-to-one realtime thing called 'a guitar teacher'....

    Not everyone can afford a teacher: I couldn't, for most of my life. When I could, though, everything accelerated.

    Another accelerant: playing with someone who is farther along than you.

  • @dokwok2 said:

    @Tickletiger said:
    Hey, there is this amazing interactive one-to-one realtime thing called 'a guitar teacher'....

    Not everyone can afford a teacher: I couldn't, for most of my life. When I could, though, everything accelerated.

    Another accelerant: playing with someone who is farther along than you.

    Doubleplus for that accelerant.

  • @Telstar5 said:
    This thread is absurd . 50 million online guitar schools and YouTube vidoes. No shortage of information anywhere. I don't get it .

    This too seemed absurd:
    https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/19542/is-the-electric-guitar-dead

  • edited September 2017

    Get a good starter guitar....

  • edited September 2017

    Keep a guitar next to your chair. That's what speeded up my playing - it'd be next to my armchair and I'd noodle along to the telly adverts, and during other idle moments. Nowadays to avoid annoying Mrs Monzo I keep it next to my chair in the office - noodling while booting up the pc, waiting for stuff to download, playing along to something on the radio.

    Sounds silly, but it becomes part of you, like an extra leg, and you concentrate more on what you're playing. Hendrix apparently had a guitar strapped round his neck at home all the time, he'd even noodle while in the kitchen cooking. Noodles probably.

  • edited September 2017

    Get a teacher. They can see exactly what your strengths and weaknesses are. They also challenge you. It's exactly like a physical trainer, in that there's a motivational aspect also.

    The problem with do-it-yourself methods is the sheer vastness of info (major info overload). You hunt a peck to find your level, and most of it is bewildering. Add to that the zillions of 'genius/self taught' success stories, it's no wonder
    progress is slow.

    It used to be a teacher was the only real option. Sure kids can do the self taught thing, but a 64?

    The statement 'as fast as possible', is a red flag, but this is a common request for many teachers, so they know how to go about it. Not recommended, but WTF :D

  • edited September 2017

    delete

  • @funjunkie27 said:
    Get a good starter guitar....

    must be fun changing the strings

  • It takes time and patience and frustration but when you're way past the uncomfortable blisters on the fingers stage then hopefully inspiration comes.
    Straight and simple it takes much effort like any thing else

  • What seems absurd to me is all the libraries with all the words and wisdom in them and humanity seems no better off as a result.> @CracklePot said:

    @Telstar5 said:
    This thread is absurd . 50 million online guitar schools and YouTube vidoes. No shortage of information anywhere. I don't get it .

    This too seemed absurd:
    https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/19542/is-the-electric-guitar-dead

    What really seems absurd to me is all the libraries with all the words and wisdom in them and humanity seems no better off as a result.

  • @Durwin99 said:

    @Masanga said:

    The problem with endlessly practicing scales (as I had for years) is that most good music doesn't have phrases that sound like scales. I got a lot more out of, (there's probably a name for it) the kind of scales practice that is like 1,2,3,2,3,4,3,4,5,4,5,6 etc. rather than just up and down the scales. That and arpeggiating in different keys is very helpful. I've heard Hendrix didn't know all of his scales, he just knew where the 1, 3, 5, 6 were in each key, and it was easy to figure out where the other notes were if he needed them. Arpeggiation can be a faster way to ingrain where the landmark notes are on the neck, and it's easy to fill in the blanks.

    Joseph Alexander's Fundamental Changes method is great for this; it's primarily aimed at jazz soloing, but the principle is highly transferable. In a nutshell, you learn arpeggios in fundamental chord progressions one position at a time. His key book is the blandly-titled Chord Tone Soloing, which is also available as an iOS app from Leafcutter Studios, and covers 13 progressions in all positions; I also like the minor ii-V-I book, which (like his original Fundamental Changes book) only does one progression in one position, but it's a really great one that leans closer to rock tonalities. Lots of other titles at fundamental-changes.com; good video lessons, too.

    I too have found Joseph Alexander's books very useful, in my case for trying to learn some Jazz techniques (so the minor I-V-I book and it's sequels) - they aren't heavy on theory, so you get straight into playing stuff. There are loads of other books in different genres, and the website is very useful.
    On the subject of Rocksmith, you should look at the Session Mode part of the program, it is quite useful for playing along with. You can't set the chords, just the key and the complexity affects the chords played by the backing band. Also, I'm sure there is some Hendrix DLC, certainly on the PC version.

    I have been working with Joseph Alexander's books (Modern Guitar and Blues books) and they are superb. I love his philosophy and feel a lot of thought has gone into advancing quickly in the best possible way. This is perfect for me at this time! So thanks for the recommendation.

  • edited December 2020

    1- There is no easy way
    2- Always always always play SLOW at first when you learn something
    3- Playing songs is fun, but not so good for improving
    4- Ask yourself if you want to have fun or be good
    5- Focus on exercices that helps you practice a difficulty. Ex: I you want to practice skipping string, focus on that only with an exercice.

    Don't forget to always start SLOW! When you play fast, you make mistakes and your brain will register these mistakes as part of the thing you want to play.

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