Learning alone guitar

[X-FILER]

haning no time for guitar lessons,i'm gonna learn alone.i'm buing a guitar next month.i have a few recommendations on what i should study first.is there anyone learning alone guitar?have you done it successfully?

[TheSkyline]

Yeah I self taught myself, and now I play in a band, so I'd it went pretty well.
All I did was learn other people's songs. Look up tabs on ultimate-guitar.com.
If your playing electric, I recommend a Fender Squire. If your playing acoustic, I would go for a Yamaha or something.

[remoteCONTROL]

this thread is so funny

[bassdrummer2333]

There are usually 2 roads one take:

-Learning all the chords/notes/reading music
-tabs, tabs, tabs, write

it's def. possible, so many people do it.

[pcyph]

Put your guitar in Drop D.













srsly.

[The Boathouse]

Learn your minor pentatonic. ASAP. Then learn a song you like, while learning more shapes of major and minor scales. Learn another song you like. Learn as many chord shapes as you can possibly remember. You need to know scales and chord shapes to be able to hold your shit together in a group. Learning to read music is a pain in the ass, but you'll be happy you did later. Always remember to take time to PLAY, and not just practice and drill, but remember you should be practicing most of all. Sounds crazy, but 4-8 hours a day will do wonders.

[The Boathouse]

Oh, and make sure you use your pinky.

[lew_1987]

Make sure you have a good idea of what you want to achieve before you start learning.

[Mynor]

Learn your minor pentatonic. ASAP. Then learn a song you like, while learning more shapes of major and minor scales. Learn another song you like. Learn as many chord shapes as you can possibly remember. You need to know scales and chord shapes to be able to hold your shit together in a group. Learning to read music is a pain in the ass, but you'll be happy you did later. Always remember to take time to PLAY, and not just practice and drill, but remember you should be practicing most of all. Sounds crazy, but 4-8 hours a day will do wonders.

Amen

[X-FILER]

this thread is so funny

Why???some people can't have lessons,you know.



Make sure you have a good idea of what you want to achieve before you start learning.

just for dun.you know,all the friends gather around at parties,playing songs,singing,laughing...

well,guys thnx a lot ;-) i'll buy a FENDER guitar

http://www.thomann.de/gr/fender_gdo_200_om_tg.htm

i'll also buy a book and learn songs as well

thank you a lot

[remoteCONTROL]

the only sort of lessons i got other than teaching myself was from "larry little's learn guitar on vcr" one and two. that taught me the basic chords and strumming patterns, and how to branch off and start solo stuff. hes kinda fruity but knows his stuff

[thesafeword]

I took a few weeks of lessons then just taught myself.

[lew_1987]

I took a few weeks of lessons then just taught myself.

Same here. Lessons were pretty much worthless though.

[OveriseFan]

Why???some people can't have lessons,you know.





just for dun.you know,all the friends gather around at parties,playing songs,singing,laughing...

well,guys thnx a lot ;-) i'll buy a FENDER guitar

http://www.thomann.de/gr/fender_gdo_200_om_tg.htm

i'll also buy a book and learn songs as well

thank you a lot

You can get much better guitars for your money. Look into a guitar with a solid top, not laminate. It will (most likely) sound so much better.

[Mynor]

Same here. Lessons were pretty much worthless though.

I actually did it the other way around

I learned guitar, got really good at it, then I took lessons, and my teacher taught me things that completely improved my playing, basically he taught me technique.

[thespearkid]

I taught myself. I don't really know squat about technique though. I'm taking Guitar 101 this semester though so I'm excited about what I can.

[Un'Aria Ancora]

Put your guitar in Drop D.













srsly.

Hello, powerchord-only boy

[Un'Aria Ancora]

Just pick songs that you love and learn to play them all the way through, transitions and everything, not just bits and pieces from certain songs. that was my mistake for a while when I first started.

[lew_1987]

I actually did it the other way around

I learned guitar, got really good at it, then I took lessons, and my teacher taught me things that completely improved my playing, basically he taught me technique.

That might be good for someone like me, who is already pretty good at guitar, but just doesn't have the patience to sit down for hours and learn sweep picking. Plus that kind of stuff is probably better being taught by a teacher, rather than a YouTube video.

[lew_1987]

Hello, powerchord-only boy

Nah, you can do some good things in Drop D.

[Mynor]

That might be good for someone like me, who is already pretty good at guitar, but just doesn't have the patience to sit down for hours and learn sweep picking. Plus that kind of stuff is probably better being taught by a teacher, rather than a YouTube video.

Yeah, and in the process you learn new chords, and scales and stuff that really help if you write as well.

[Un'Aria Ancora]

Learn in drop A

[!T-DIFS!]

Just learn Blink-182 songs. haha. That's seriously what i learned off of. Their songs are simple, but sound really cool.

[coryatlarge]

I actually did it the other way around

I learned guitar, got really good at it, then I took lessons, and my teacher taught me things that completely improved my playing, basically he taught me technique.
as did i..... i learned tabs and then took lessons and am learning the musical stuff.... it did help that i had piano lessons tho....
I taught myself. I don't really know squat about technique though. I'm taking Guitar 101 this semester though so I'm excited about what I can.
i'm gonna do this next semester hopefully!

[billyboatkid]

I've been playing since seventh grade... Had a class in High school. Took another class in College. Mostly taught myself.

I just make up my own stuff and mess around. So for what I know and wanted teaching myself was the best thing.

(Probably was pretty incoherent, but I'm to lazy to fix it)

[Mynor]

as did i..... i learned tabs and then took lessons and am learning the musical stuff.... it did help that i had piano lessons tho....


Damn, I wanna learn how to play piano, haha

[pcyph]

Damn, I wanna learn how to play piano, haha

dude, dload guitar pro and download songs and they'll show you the piano on there, learn a bunch of songs and you start to get the hang of chord combination and left hand and right hand movement.

I'm looking to take lessons now though.

Also, yea, I'm no good at guitar but I'll fool around in Drop D on my brothers cause it's fun, so yes I am powerchord only boy, either way, Matt Skiba claims that he can't play a C Chord or something like that, he just plays drop d. If your looking to whip out a guitar and fool around at a campfire it might actually be a solid suggestion.


Again, my opinion is void cause I don't play guitar.

BYE!

[BoxandJamaica]

Same here. Lessons were pretty much worthless though.

Agreed. But after years of searching for a legitimate guitar teacher, I finally found one who was extremely open-minded about his learning method. He (Earl Waller) basically sits you down in his small practice room with 4 or 5 different guitars all hanging up on the wall and plays the song(s) you want to learn in that lesson, listens to them for about 5 seconds, picks up on every chord and teaches you about 16 different ways of playing them (starting with the easiest ways and evolving into the more challenging ways) to channel out the techniques that you have the ability and the ones you don't. Then he writes 'em down and sends you back home after a productive hour lesson!

[thesafeword]

I still can't get over this title, haha.

[X-FILER]

I still can't get over this title, haha.
what do you mean?

[Jesse!]

what do you mean?

He's probably referring to the poor structure.

"Learning alone guitar" would probably be better off as, "Learning guitar alone".

[The Boathouse]

Hello, powerchord-only boy

Maybe if you don't know what you're doing. Ever listen to the album "Grace" by Jeff Buckley? Probably half that album's in drop D. Tell me how many power chords are on that album.

[Un'Aria Ancora]

Maybe if you don't know what you're doing. Ever listen to the album "Grace" by Jeff Buckley? Probably half that album's in drop D. Tell me how many power chords are on that album.

That doesn't mean someone should start off learning guitar in D.
And 3.
3 powerchords.

[The Boathouse]

That doesn't mean someone should start off learning guitar in D.
And 3.
3 powerchords.

I never insinuated that he should LEARN in drop D, but it doesn't mean he'll end up playing all power chords if he's in that tuning.

Where were those 3 power chords? I never even bothered to count myself, I just recall rarely finding them while I played through the album last.

[Un'Aria Ancora]

I never insinuated that he should LEARN in drop D, but it doesn't mean he'll end up playing all power chords if he's in that tuning.

Where were those 3 power chords? I never even bothered to count myself, I just recall rarely finding them while I played through the album last.

Fair enough. But her favorite bands are the Rocket Summer and Green Day...

And if you're too blind to hear the power chords, maybe you should recheck the specs on the inline for the rotary girder.
Actually I wasn't being literal. I've only listened to that cd once and did not learn the guitar.

[The Boathouse]

Hahahaha, I started reading that and was like, "Oh, jesus christ, this guy invented the guitar, now I'm really fucked!"

[tomgreen680]

Just pick songs that you love and learn to play them all the way through, transitions and everything, not just bits and pieces from certain songs. that was my mistake for a while when I first started.

I agree. If you don't learn to play the song all the way through it makes it much harder to actually write an entire song. I did this for awhile and I just kept writing small riffs and it was a bitch to put them all together. Transitions go under the radar but they can really make a song flow. Plus I didn't know tempo or much else for that matter.

[frodo22969052]

Learn key signatures srsly :(
And Tabs
Tab's are the future.
Message me if you need any help btw I been playing 4/5 years i'm pretty experienced haha :)