Anyone here know how to play the guitar?

[downtheline]

I don't even attempt playing Abasi on my 8 Hard enough playing off time Meshuggah

I'm really getting into the instrumental side of rock (Animals as Leaders, Mars Volta, etc). Not a guitar player, but this thread has me ready to buy an acoustic. Learning an instrument is one of the best feelings in the world, because you did it all by yourself.

 

[Wildin]

started taking lessons again.

Post up and live feedback you receive that you think might be relevant.



The only additional advice I can give is to play, 45 mins to an hour a day. It's muscle memory.

What I've been doing is going back to the basics. The basic basics, mad finger exercises and basic songs like Mary had a little lamb, Yankee doodle, star spangled banner, and shyt but actually playing from sheet music.

It's weird cause I had to take a step back, kind of undo habits or something that I've learned and start fresh from the beginning.

I mean from the very beginning starting on the high E string playing F and G notes on to the B string playing B, C, D, G string, A, D string and E, F, B string, C, D, E string F and g.....

I actually just bought my lil girl a guitar so I figure I gotta take her through the basics starting at step one. She knows how to read a music staff because I taught her with her little keyboard.

Between the finger exercises and starting from the very beginning, even though I've played for over a decade I have a better feel and understanding of it. Ive always wanted an instructor to watch me to give me feedback but I feel I'm too far gone.

Rocksmith is cool, I think if anything the least you can take away is the muscle memory.

 

[Wildin]

I actually broke, well I didn't break it, but my acoustic electric fell the other day. I set it up against my desk to use my hands for my 3d printer and it tipped over. Shattered the faceplate. Hopefully my new faceplate comes this week.

 

[Black Haven]

I actually broke, well I didn't break it, but my acoustic electric fell the other day. I set it up against my desk to use my hands for my 3d printer and it tipped over. Shattered the faceplate. Hopefully my new faceplate comes this week.

How is it like playing a classical? Even though I want to try it that wide ass neck looks like it will be a even bigger problem for me than acoustic.

 

[Wildin]

How is it like playing a classical? Even though I want to try it that wide ass neck looks like it will be a even bigger problem for me than acoustic.

Idk. A guitar is a guitar is a guitar to me. The majority of my friends growing up had a guitar. A few of them learned to play from their pops and grandpops. One of my boys bought his own when we were teens because he liked playing, another one hopped on the train and bought one to fit it. So they've always been there whether in the houses we grew up in, or when we were chillin, someone or some of us playing ps2, or making beats, a guitar was always there. This was early 2000's too so like Kanye had the backpack, and he was playing with John Mayer and Andre 3000 was all around goofy. One of my boys wanted to be Lenny Kravitz, the other wanted to be like Hendrix. We had expensive guitars to like $200 guitars always around us. So we just played with what we had.

I think I've told this story on here before but this one cat I worked with for a Lil bit is the most amazing cat I've ever witnessed on guitar. He went and bought a little starter, my first guitar from Wal-Mart cause he didn't know how to play. He'd work, go home smoke pot and play...dude was nasty. And YouTube wasn't a thing at this time. Dude is musically gifted. He taught himself piano, drums, guitar and harmonica. We worked with this kid I went to elementary, middle and high school with Who's dad taught him guitar and he had literally been playing for like 18-19 years and this cat Trent was playing and keeping up, even surpassing him it was nasty. One classically trained vs one self taught playing together....it was Wild. This was before YouTube was big but God damn it was sick. Trent (the dude that taught himself) basically went home every night and smoked pot and played and it like 6-7 months he was sick. He was broke, didn't have a car or a game system and didn't have and wasn't looking for a girl so his priorities were straight.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

There's this jazz book that's been floating around the internet for years. It's a good starting point for jazz especially because it doesn't overwhelm you like other books and courses. Let me see if I can find it and link it...


www.jazzguitar.be › ebooksPDF Web results The Beginner's Guide to Jazz Guitar - Jazz Guitar Online

If it doesn't work just Google: jazz guitar pdf book

Also the Hal Leonard books are dope.

100 Acoustic Lessons
100 Blues Lessons

 

[Wildin]

My faceplate came yesterday and my lady didn't even tell me. I'll put it on later.

 

[downtheline]

Im trying to learn to play with a pick.

Do you all have any tips? I just play bass. Practicing with a metronome and running through the Cycle of Fifth's at the moment.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

I BOUGHT MY GIRL A GUITAR FOR VALENTINES DAY. I PICKED UP RECENTLY AND I THINK I WANT TO BUY ONE FOR MYSELF.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

Does anyone know how to play African guitar styles?

I want to learn, but I wanna start off in the motherland - get that real flavor in it

African guitar is more about style and technique than anything else. Mostly built around chord progressions, isolating strings and playing within certain registers, playing around tight, tight repetitive grooves.

Unfortunately there's not enough out there on African guitar specifically that i know of. You'd have to study and observe African guitarists and do what they do, which is possible. But you can start with some Western genres that are more accessible to learn before you delve in. I would study Blues, R&B, Jazz; Funk and disco style guitar also. Style-wise these genres have held on to a lot of African guitar ideas, tradition and technique in the West. Studying lots and lots of R&B and Jazz will start you off as you'll learn about the fingering, moving, and string/register isolation that is so important to African music (as well as Funk, Disco, Reggae and countless other black music genres). Funk and disco shows you how to take that and play around tight, percussive-heavy grooves. The Blues will get you soloing and is just a solid foundation for any style you play, especially all black music genres. There is a lot of African music theory rooted in the "blues scale" also. Latin guitar is especially a good place to begin approaching this. Latin music has preserved it's African roots more so than any music in the West. Genres like Bachata and Bossa Nova is basically watered down African music, while genres like Salsa is like turned up African music with a horn and keyboard section. The guitar playing there is almost completely reminiscent of it's African origins. You can study Latin music and you've basically studied African music.

 

[King]

African guitar is more about style and technique than anything else. Mostly built around chord progressions, isolating strings and playing within certain registers, playing around tight, tight repetitive grooves.

Unfortunately there's not enough out there on African guitar specifically that i know of. You'd have to study and observe African guitarists and do what they do, which is possible. But you can start with some Western genres that are more accessible to learn before you delve in. I would study Blues, R&B, Jazz; Funk and disco style guitar also. Style-wise these genres have held on to a lot of African guitar ideas, tradition and technique in the West. Studying lots and lots of R&B and Jazz will start you off as you'll learn about the fingering, moving, and string/register isolation that is so important to African music (as well as Funk, Disco, Reggae and countless other black music genres). Funk and disco shows you how to take that and play around tight, percussive-heavy grooves. The Blues will get you soloing and is just a solid foundation for any style you play, especially all black music genres. There is a lot of African music theory rooted in the "blues scale" also. Latin guitar is especially a good place to begin approaching this. Latin music has preserved it's African roots more so than any music in the West. Genres like Bachata and Bossa Nova is basically watered down African music, while genres like Salsa is like turned up African music with a horn and keyboard section. The guitar playing there is almost completely reminiscent of it's African origins. You can study Latin music and you've basically studied African music.

Thanks breh, I’m tryna be on this level before I die



One of my favorite musicians - idk something about that guitar, especially blues just feels so powerful for me as a black man. Feels like I owe it to the ancestors to learn that shyt and pass it on before I die.

I hear you on the Latin stuff too I been listening to this album a lot as well. Latin music is essentially African - I didn’t even know this album was a collab between a Latin group and a traditional African musician.

 

[King]

African guitar is more about style and technique than anything else. Mostly built around chord progressions, isolating strings and playing within certain registers, playing around tight, tight repetitive grooves.

Unfortunately there's not enough out there on African guitar specifically that i know of. You'd have to study and observe African guitarists and do what they do, which is possible. But you can start with some Western genres that are more accessible to learn before you delve in. I would study Blues, R&B, Jazz; Funk and disco style guitar also. Style-wise these genres have held on to a lot of African guitar ideas, tradition and technique in the West. Studying lots and lots of R&B and Jazz will start you off as you'll learn about the fingering, moving, and string/register isolation that is so important to African music (as well as Funk, Disco, Reggae and countless other black music genres). Funk and disco shows you how to take that and play around tight, percussive-heavy grooves. The Blues will get you soloing and is just a solid foundation for any style you play, especially all black music genres. There is a lot of African music theory rooted in the "blues scale" also. Latin guitar is especially a good place to begin approaching this. Latin music has preserved it's African roots more so than any music in the West. Genres like Bachata and Bossa Nova is basically watered down African music, while genres like Salsa is like turned up African music with a horn and keyboard section. The guitar playing there is almost completely reminiscent of it's African origins. You can study Latin music and you've basically studied African music.

Question tho - you recommend I start off with copping an acoustic or an electric?

Gonna start off with learning blues first then Latin a few months after. Really trying to understand the core fundamentals

Preferably 3-4 hundred max I can spend rn

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Wildin]

Im trying to learn to play with a pick.

Do you all have any tips? I just play bass. Practicing with a metronome and running through the Cycle of Fifth's at the moment.

Metronome and strumming pattern exercises.

I learned fingerstyle. I had to go back, all the way back to strumming basics.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

Question tho - you recommend I start off with copping an acoustic or an electric?

Gonna start off with learning blues first then Latin a few months after. Really trying to understand the core fundamentals

Preferably 3-4 hundred max I can spend rn

That's a good budget for a Epiphone, Squier, Ibanez, and other cheaper brands that are still good quality. I'd start with acoustic just so you can learn how to finger and play "clean." Essential, especially if you're learning playing styles as intricate and stylistic as these. It's easy to get into bad playing habits when you're a beginner hiding behind a distorted electric guitar. Believe me.

Definitely have fun with some R&B and Latin grooves, and learn your Blues licks and scales. Get down those core skills of fingering techniques, sliding, and register isolation around tight grooves. This will be a good foundation before you really delve into African grooves and licks.

Theoretically, understanding "polyrythmic" musical structure is also essential to African music. It's essentially what unites and separates all "black" music at it's core from other music. So think about this as you're learning. In African music instruments play rhythmically around each other--with what you play on the off beat being just as important as what you play on beat. Funk music is especially useful in understanding this concept and is a great place to learn from the perspective of black music in the West. When James Brown told his band to play "on the one," and then started writing the best music ever, this is basically what he understood.