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Handsome Dan
08-15-2005, 04:44 AM
Should i be learning blues or jazz? Straight chords? Should i just stick to working my finger manouverability? I am willing to spend time (obviously) working on this, but i wouldn't mind, by the end of it having pretty fast-ass fingers.
Jahuli
08-15-2005, 05:21 AM
yuk
Jahuli
08-15-2005, 05:22 AM
Just kidding! Do you mean fast-ass fingers like mine? Man, i'm good!
SSSNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKEEERRRR
Wankyou very much!
Handsome Dan
08-15-2005, 05:41 AM
Useful tips, but i'm actually looking for GOOD guitar players to give me REAL tips. Thanks any way Nic
Jahuli
08-15-2005, 05:47 AM
Dang, who is nic? And if you say me, just remember i know where you live!


heres a pic of me
GAR
08-17-2005, 06:00 PM
I would say just dexterity excercises and picking downstrokes, to the rhythm of any music on the TV or radio. And make it fun and casual.

Making it a chore turns it into a negative for the less-determined.
Seshmeister
08-17-2005, 07:44 PM
Originally posted by Handsome Dan
Should i be learning blues or jazz? Straight chords? Should i just stick to working my finger manouverability? I am willing to spend time (obviously) working on this, but i wouldn't mind, by the end of it having pretty fast-ass fingers.

You're too old to start now, you'd be wasting your time.

Take up the bass or something...
Dave's Bitch
08-17-2005, 08:50 PM
learn pentatonic scale (thats the blues/rock scale)
tjvhou812
08-17-2005, 11:42 PM
and just about every song has a power chord in it
Matt White
08-18-2005, 12:13 AM
Find a good teacher...and get a job.
Matt White
08-18-2005, 12:51 AM
Originally posted by The Scatologist
fuck teachers. 90% of them aren't really that good anyway.
100% of them are better than you......
Don Corleone
08-18-2005, 02:31 AM
Definately get youself a good teacher - you can't beat a sound grasp of the basic's. Also learn to read Tab (easy) and/or Sheet (not so easy) - these will come in handy for instructional books and video's.
Don Corleone
08-18-2005, 02:32 AM
Also, over time develope your ear.
Nitro Express
08-18-2005, 05:15 AM
Play the kind of music you like. Take it one playing session at a time and don't be in a hurry. Setting a shit load of goals and having a prioritized task list just sucks the fun out of playing.

If you don't love it enough to practice and play naturally, then sell your guitar stuff because you are wasting your time.
Dave's Bitch
08-18-2005, 08:51 AM
you dont have to get a teacher.i learned how to play by myself but its taken about 5 years to be at a good level.it all depends how quickly you wanna get good
Nitro Express
08-20-2005, 02:13 PM
Some people like teachers. I find they are the type of people who like to be shown how to do things as oppossed to doing their own research. With computers and the internet, learning guitar has never had so many resourses of information available for so little money.

In the 80's, I payed a guitar instructer big bucks and looking back at that, he wasn't worth the money but all that was available were crappy instructional booklets available from the local music store.

If you are self-motivated and aren't one of the many lazy fucks who hate to read and research things, you don't need an instructor.