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OT: All purpose Music thread
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Big Muddy
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He had some unusual techniques as well. His play of octaves (double stops) for solos influenced a lot of other guitarists.
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how many guitars is too many...
Is more than you can play at one time too many?
Is more than you can count on one hand too many?
is needing to resort to toes to count them too many?
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Big Muddy
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Can you even have too many guitars? j/k LOL.
I have 5 now after giving away one to a friend. But, I basically just play one pretty much all the time (a PRS Hollow-body 2, a real sweet instrument).
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I expect the answers are obvious, but I will ask anyway.
What are your tips or insights into getting started? I have tried a few times and can't get over the hump to learn to play guitar.
It's important to me that my kids will learn to play an instrument and I think it would also be easier if I was able to pick it up, too.
YouTube is a resources and I guess the old standard of, "just do it". Practice 15 minutes a day, sort of thing.
I think its the frustration of not picking it up quick. Generally I am pretty good at stuff, and the wrist/hand/finger manipulation is really not natural to me.
What are your tips or insights into getting started? I have tried a few times and can't get over the hump to learn to play guitar.
It's important to me that my kids will learn to play an instrument and I think it would also be easier if I was able to pick it up, too.
YouTube is a resources and I guess the old standard of, "just do it". Practice 15 minutes a day, sort of thing.
I think its the frustration of not picking it up quick. Generally I am pretty good at stuff, and the wrist/hand/finger manipulation is really not natural to me.
I started very late, bought my first guitar at 22, and I'm still very bad at it. But here's a few things I learned:
- make sure the guitar you buy is at least playable! My first guitar was used and cheap, but the neck was warped and strings were so far from the fretboard that playing any note clean seemed impossible. And I had no clue that it wasn't solely my fault!
- make it fun! Try to learn just enough to be able to play some songs you like. It could be just a riff initially (Satisfaction, Smoke on the Water, stuff like that) to get to play individual notes on one string or two, and then some songs with simple A, D, E chords (Mazzy Star was great for this for me!). At this point normally you will realize how much you still need to learn, and the songs you have more trouble with (could be because of barre chords, a difficult solo, some arpeggio) will make you want to get a teacher to fill in the blanks.
Xspyrit
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What stage are you at and what are you target goals?
Like, can you play the cowboy chords? How about bar chords?
Taking some lessons early can help address early technique issue, how to hold your pick (assuming you use one) for example.
Use a metronome when you practice, especially with drills.
There are some drills you can do that will help build up strength and coordination, like the spider walk, do that for five mins and it will warm you up, you can speed it up as you get better at it and see your progress
anything you can gamify helps with keeping interest, so for example do the spider walk at 80 BPM, see if you can get it up to 90 by the end of the week.
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During Covid, I used Yousician as I was more like Malcolm than Angus. But I wanted to be Angus and honestly it was working quite well.
I am a total beginner. I have barely given it a shot. I think I need to come to terms with the fact it may be the hardest thing I have ever tried to do.
I haven't heard of the spider walk before, so I will look that up.
Context is I have wanted to play this song ever since I watched Stanger Than Fiction. As an aside, this is a criminally underrated movie. If you haven't seen it, I suggest you give it a try.
I don't expect it is the hardest song to learn, so I hope I can learn it in roughly a year.
I see now, there must be a Maggie Gyllenhaal in your life!
Honestly, speaking as a, say, beginner+ at guitar (I can basically play a few chords), I think the hardest part is going to be able to hold the rhythm while trying to sing that song at the same time.
