Tyler F asked:


I have been playing guitar for eight years now and I never realized this till now, but i can’t use my pinkie when I play guitar. As dumb of a situation as this sounds, are there any helpful tips for learning to use my pinkie when I play guitar?

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arktikna asked:


I’ve been playing (electic)guitar since the beginning of this year and I still really suck. So i wanna know how do i get better.
I know, practice a lot, but when i alway fail in doing a good exercise it gets kinda boring pretty quickly.
I really want to become a good guitar player, because when I listen to my fav bands, i wanna be able to play the same stuff as them
i can play prett much all standard chords, major, minor, and septiem-chords
i can play most chords along the neck based on the 6th and 5th strings
nothing really special
i also can play very easy songs like ”hotel california” and the main riff of
”I believe in a thing called love” of The Darkness

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guitarman1989 asked:


I am 37 and have been playing guitar for 25 yrs. I am a very accomplished player in many styles. I want to know what the best way to make money is besides playing in bars.

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James Brown asked:


Playing the guitar is something that can be learned and it takes time. However, those people who would like to learn it do not have enough time to spend practicing even just the basics. Guitar playing will take years to master although you can just pick it up and play whenever and wherever you want. If you are really serious in learning the instrument, it will need you to take time to spend. It is not something that can be learned only memorizing the details. It needs practical use for you to really be able to know how to do it.

Personally, I haven not taken any guitar lessons or hired someone to teach me. Self-study was all there is for me. My determination and serious intent prompted my inner skills to get out and make the best of every moment. I was 14-years old when I started thinking about learning how to play instruments and I saw someone playing guitar. I love the sound of it so I strive to learn it. Perhaps it also runs in the blood because my parents know how to play the instrument too. I find that the quickest way nowadays to learn guitar is to take online lessons. They are basically everywhere in the net. They are right to the point and they allow people to learn at their own chosen time and pace. You can even choose from various lessons from basics to advance.

When you learn at your own pace and time makes it easier for you to learn how to play the instrument much faster because there is no pressure put on you. The added fact that learning online can be fun and easier to understand and follow. For me it will really make a difference if you will try to learn in a serious but fun way. I find it too hard if my heart is not on that something I do. So apart from the determination to learn how to play the instrument, perhaps the next best thing is to set your heart in it for real. You cannot just take it up and then expect to learn without paying so much effort. Remember that we are not music geniuses to start with. Even geniuses have to set their heart to learn too.

Online lessons can be very theoretical which personally I skipped through. Reading the facts and principles make my head hurt. Personally, I want to have active experience to learn something because if I learn something by experience, I find it easier to remember that way. You can skip the theory too especially if you just want to play couple of songs. If this is actually what you want then you can just learn the basic chords and start your way from there. Doing this at your own pace will make you learn the basics with only a few hours to spare and perhaps will be able to play your favorite songs in no time at all.



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captain_xion asked:


I’ve been playing piano for seven years, and I have to say, I’m pretty darn good. Will it be easier to play guitar now than If I had started playing guitar with no musical experience whatsoever? I also heard that people that play piano can’t play the guitar well.

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Andreas Wahlstedt asked:


If you are brand new to playing guitar, then guitar chords are one of the easiest things to learn. All you really need is a good reference, like a chord dictionary, in order to learn and memorize the shape of any chord you want.

This article focuses on helping you make sense of the different chord types you’re likely to come across, and should give you an edge when you’re ready to learn some of the music theory involved in chord construction.

So, let’s begin by taking the mystery out of some chord-related jargon you’ll likely come across. We’ll start first with the basic definition of a chord.

BASIC CHORDS

The simplest type of chord is created from 3 (usually distinct) notes played simultaneously. An F-major chord, for example, consists of the notes F, A and C. All of the fundamental major and minor chords, can be created with just 3 notes.

ADVANCED CHORDS

A chord isn’t limited to just 3 notes, nor is it necessary for every note to be unique. For example, if you play F-major as a ‘Barre’ chord you will have the following pattern of 6 notes: F-C-F-A-C-F.

In theory, you could have a chord with more notes than you have fingers!

The most complex chords are usually created by stacking intervals, adding or suspending tones and creating inversions. For example, a D-major9#11 is built by adding the 7th, 9th and 11th tones of the D-major scale on top of a D-major chord.

You might wonder how this is possible when there are only 8 notes within the scale. What’s happening is that the 9th and 11th notes are actually just repeated notes, started from the beginning of the scale. In this case, the 9th note is ‘E’ and the 11th note is ‘G’.

Some terms to memorize: augmented (aug), suspended (sus), diminished (dim), add, subtract(-).

POWER CHORDS

Power chords are technically not chords in the strictest sense because they consist of only two notes. Power chords are actually intervals of what’s referred to as ‘bare fifths’. The easiest place to play them is on the bottom (low) strings of the guitar.

In order to create a ‘bare fifth’ interval, all you have to do is drop the “third” from a basic chord, and just play the root note with the dominant fifth. An A-major power chord, for example, is simply the notes A and E.

Remember the song “Jessie’s Girl”, by Rick Springfield? The main riff of the song is a progression of power chords. Try playing it in D-major using the following progression of fifths starting from the 5th fret position: D/A, A/E, B/E, G/D, A/E, D/A.

And that’s it for this tutorial. If and when you want to learn more about how to create your own chords, I recommend picking up a good theory book that teaches relationships between scales, chords and modes.



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FutbolFan2147 asked:


I recently started playing guitar and I received a tingling, numb sensation on three of my fingers on my left hand. Is this normal?

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supershop6921 asked:


I have been playing guitar since I was 8, I am now 26. I play pretty well but have always had trouble playing really good lead guitar. How can I improve, any method suggestions or tips. I want to be able to play cliffs of dover, that is my goal.

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timmypadgett asked:


I have just started picking my guitar back up recently and I enjoy it. However I might put it down then an hour later start playing again but the tips of my fingers are hurting too much to continue? Is there anything at all I can do? I know that my fingers will harden but is there anything else beforehand?

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