The most essential chord in gypsy jazz, honestly.🙂🙏

I know this is probably a weird question but im wondering if I can play it in the position of a lap guitar but playing it like a regular guitar.

I really struggle with holding the guitar and fingering the frets. Is there any reason I couldn't just do it face up and sort of fingering the frets like a piano lol?

I am playing for some time, I can play some songs, solos but my theory is 0. Where to start with scales?

Okay, sorry for the silly question, but I could really use your thoughts here. I'm a beginner-intermediate guitarist, but I haven't practiced the instrument in over a year.

It will still be a month until I get to practice my guitar. But until then, what can I do to "practice" the guitar for the 30 minutes I get every day? I eventually want to be able to play 80s hard rock and metal but I wanna develop my ears too.

TIA for the help!

Could somebody please explain how I get such a soft, yet kind of crunchy guitar tone ( amp settings and pedals). Thanks in advance.

Anyone use this instruction book? Thoughts?

Hey all. I've been trying to get better at guitar for the past year now, but have not really seen much improvement. I've been going to lessons at $35 for every 30 minutes, but I don't really feel like it's helped. I've learned a bit more than I know, but not much. He keeps introducing new things to me when I still haven't finished the old things, shows me complicated chords, and just makes the whole lesson more complicated. I don't really blame him, I think it's just not my way of learning. So I'm trying to get better. I've tried youtube and chatgpt, but there's so much out there I don't really know where to start. My goal is to write my own songs one day and release them on platforms. Nothing big, just want to have some songs out there and maybe play at a bar or two. I'd say I'm an intermediate campfire guitarist. I know most of the chords, know how to do a few links and riffs, and if I know what key I'm playing in, can improvise a bit. But that's all. Any guidance on where I can start and how I can keep the momentum going would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance

I really enjoyed playing guitar from the start, and it would be the only thing I would think about for the first few months. I got pure ecstasy when I got a riff right, doesn't matter how simple. After around 6 months of playing it started dying down from like 4-6 hours a day to 2 hours a day, when life got busy. Now, 3 months later the motivation died down drastically. I'm tired of learning easy riffs, and when I try hard riffs/songs I'm just not good enough. I started with a practice routine including scales, rhythm, improv , finger exercises , chords and technical stuff.. Its working, but it feels like a chore, more than the ecstasy I'm used to.. I'm probably not the first person to have this problem, so I want to hear what others did to solve this problem...

This is a free lesson on my patreon. By no means do you need to be a paid patron for my content, but a follow would be nice. I hope this is ok on here.

I have no idea what makes that warbly effect. I tried with my wah to no luck.

It's like a in-between the chords thing and I don't know what its called or how to practice it but it sounds so good

I'm learning to play fingerstyle on my own, a month or so in now and I'm not following the 45 degree rule. I can play fingerpicking patterns comfortably, I'm comfortable with my position and my tone sounds good too however I just heard that we should follow the 45 degree rule keeping thumb in the front and other three fingers under it, that's not what I do. My thumb aligns with my index somewhat. What should I do?

I absolutely hate learning guitar solos. I love listening to it, but when it comes to actually learning a solo, I just hate every moment of it. It just feels like it takes too damn long to play it right. I can't seem to ever "finish" learning a song because literally everything has a solo in it. I can play a couple of solos, mainly black sabbath but it literally took me a whole month to even play it not perfectly, but "acceptable". Meanwhile, I learn the rhythm parts in just a week. This absolutely sucks.

Could anyone please teach me the proper way of learning a solo? I try to start slow, progressively get faster and get stuck at a certain speed for forever. I just don't find it fun at all compare to learning rhythm. I repeat the same lick hundreds of times and it gets tiring as shit. I just feel inclined to learn it because soloing is such a big part of playing guitar even though I hate it.

Tired Of Talkin’ by Robben Ford is a very cool blues tune that features a very unusual lick near the end of the song at 3:45-3:48. Can someone help me understand what he’s doing in this lick?

Just a question: did not have a good lesson last time with my instructor and I feel really awkward about going back but I don’t wanna give up. This is my third teacher.🙄

So, I wanted to start writing my own songs in a pop-punk/rock style, but I ran into a problem: I don’t really know which path to take. I was wondering how other people approach this. I’m not sure if I should first write the guitar part and then add the drums in a DAW, but when I focus on the guitar part, I like adding some pauses — which sound really weird when there are no other instruments playing, and that kind of messes with my songwriting. On the other hand, writing the guitar part over a drum track feels limiting, since I have to stick closely to the drum beat. I tried to explain this as clearly as I could; I hope it makes sense.

https://ibb.co/b5pkYZDX Electric guitar sheet

I don't know what the right name for this is, but Chuck Berry does this thing where he alternates between a power chord and a sixth. He uses his index and ring fingers for the power chord and throws in his pinky for the sixth.

It feels like an impossible stretch for me, especially lower on the fretboard. My pinky barely gets past the fret and it sounds all buzzy. I can get my pinky much further if I use my index and middle fingers for the power chord, but then the power chord becomes buzzy because I can't get enough space in between my index and middle finger.

Is this something you can get better at? Or do you either have the right hand anatomy or not?

It isn't tuning up after certain winds however it is tuning down very well

I've started improving on strumming since the last post thanks to a lot of the advice shared here. I can now play most songs since I've gotten Barre chords and chords shifting down pretty well , what major thing should I focus on now? Besides learning music theory, that I've kept in mind.

I've an acoustic guitar, I'm not an electric type of guy. I also don't have a tutor so I'm kind of confused where to go from here. Thank you.