I started guitar a week ago and every1 I see tells me to use a pick but my hand feels way more comfy than a plastic pick

Used to learn from YouTube but I find the videos way too long. I like the short 30-second format of Instagram. Learn the main chords, arpeggios, riffs and solo highlights and be done with that song. Only complaint is there is no way to pause the Instagram videos. Sometimes I will take a screenshot if needed.

Another thing I like is the algorithm shows you dozens of versions of people teaching the same song. So you just pick what looks easiest and sounds best to you..

Guess I will never be that guitarist who can cover the whole song from start to finish . I get more enjoyment learning a bunch of songs good enough than playing a couple songs perfectly.

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!

https://ibb.co/nsm8VM2x And the finger was doing barre.

Hey hey, ive been trying to identify the notes the guy is starting to play at minute 3:35 in the song Im pretty new to playing guitar and im having a very hard time trying to learn this by ear Id appreciate any help :(

https://youtu.be/aV6iVFO_vDQ?si=85t-PXdYibJtbUZK

Thanks alot in Advance :))

I want to sing this mantra and would love to learn a very easy way to play it with a fingerpicking style. I’m a complete beginner and spending a lot of time with the guitar lately, so I’m looking for something simple that I can follow while singing. Any tips, patterns, or resources would be super appreciated.

Hello. For a while I've experimented with NDSP plugins such as Nolly, Gojira and Fortin Nameless, but all of these plugins fail to give me even a decent tone. I get a unlistenable noisy mess. I was aiming for a simple metal rhythm tone using the presets and tweaking them a bit (not too much, just pulling the gain back a bit or something like that). Here is audio of me playing random stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Si_SK3LcDY through the Fortin Nameless plugin (This is pretty much how every plugin I play through sounds, except Gojira which has so much gain that you cant even differentiate between notes). As for what gear I am using: Harley Benton SC-400, Fender Deluxe Series Tweed Instrument Cable, Audient iD4 Audio Interface all of that into my PC. The DAW I use is Reaper but I doubt that has anything to do with the tone. Please help me get a decent metal guitar tone.

Hi. I have been trying to relearn guitar after 17 years. I have been practicing scales and reading about theories. What is your usual practice routine everyday? I have been struggling to have a time as I work 13 hrs shift per day for 4 days a week. I find it hard to focus when I am on my fays off because I am always tired and needed a full rest. What advice can you give me guys? Thank you so much!

My two hand tapping sucks. I’m getting to the point where I can start to move around but I can’t avoid string noise and it just sounds like shit. Anyone have suggestions for practice techniques to work through this? I want to learn thesolo from Crazy Train but that part is not going well.

I’m getting the chords position right but it’s not ringing smoothly. I try lifting my fingers from touching other string and it improves. But when I press down harder it sounds better but then It hurts a little too much to the point where I can’t hold down the chords long at all.

Is it just a matter of building the calluses?

What are some tips to improve the sound of my chords?

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

As per the title, I have a new student that started with me a few weeks back.

He can play some basic chords and was clearly not too bad...many years ago. He's very rusty and holds the guitar in a way that is likely to end with a carpel tunnel op.

He wants to learn an incredibly complex piece of classical music. I'm fine with that, I learned the piece and it's a nice bit of music.

I put together some exercises that will help him achieve this, some are a little basic from where he used to be some years ago, but they go some way to correcting his hold and reacquainting him with some chords and fingerstyle techniques.

He phoned me at the weekend to say he doesn't want to do the exercises and just wants to learn the piece of music.

With all respect due, he's miles away from being able to play this piece, and I told him that as diplomatically as I could, but he's insisting that's what we work on.

I fear that if I were to actually do this, he'll damage himself, first and foremost, and secondly, will become dissapointed and dissolutioned when he finds he can't play it.

I mean, I've been playing 40 years, and it took me over an hour to get it right. This is not something that's going to be an easy win.

What do I do here?

In the past, students have asked for similar but have all understood their limitations and the reasoning of the exercises produced by me to get them to that goal.

I’ve been playing Guitar for about four months now. I’ve been loving it but I’m starting to slow down on my progress because I don’t know what I should focus on practicing. I know the basic open chords and I’ve started to dabble in barre chords. I also know the minor pentatonic scale on all positions. What are a few things I should concentrate practice time on to advance my skills? I like a lot of Pink Floyd’s stuff so it would be cool to learn how to play with that sound.(I posted this in the guitar subreddit and it gotten taken down and I have no idea why)

So I just got to the up/down picking lesson on Yousician guitar course (which I’m enjoying a lot btw, despite yousician’s slightly naff aesthetic!!). The lesson talks about using a pick/plectrum to pick up down and speed up one’s picking rate. However I mostly play classical and use my fingers for picking, not a plectrum. So is up down picking also a thing with finger picking? Feels a bit weird twanging the string with flat back of nails on the way back up…!

What do you recommend(site,platform,youtube channel) to learn slow and good the scales on the guitar?. I play chord and apreggios like a 3 years ago, but i´m stuck in the point of scales and improvisation with track.

Chord tones really cut through the clutter if you're trying to understand how to solo. This is the antidote to aimlessly going up and down your scales. You're basically using an easy system to create a very simple melody.

Once you're good at this, use your knowledge (if you have it) of your scale (in this case C) to add notes in between, and treat the chord tones as target notes. If you don't know your scales/keys, go here:

Major scales:

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarlessons/comments/1muvwxk/basic_theory_lesson_how_to_create_any_major_scale/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This progression/backing track are cheesy, but this works in any style, any progression.

We don't have any blue notes yet, or tensions, but you gotta be able to rock the basic chord tones first imo.

If you don't know how to create triads, you can go here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarlessons/comments/1hstify/basic_theory_timetriads_if_you_want_to_play/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Hey, so i recently got a acoustic guitar and started learning this song but the part where you slide from 10-12 to 9-11 3 times feels impossible, i've been trying for days already and i have seen some success on the A string but the D string just always gets muted no matter what i do, even when i practice the strings individually the D is almost impossible. Any Tips?

I have been playing guitar for 5 years but stopped in 2021/22 due to just getting frustrated from not progressing. Had too many goals and kept chopping and changing between them and not knowing how to practice.

I am keen to get back into it again and want to learn 80s metal songs starting with Hallowed be thy name. I always wanted to learn these songs but got put off by my mentality that I can never play those fast solos.

Thought I'd get back into it but with a gameplan this time and just focus on one goal. What is the best way to structure practice? Do I just get the tab on guitar pro and increase the bpm every time until I have reached the desired speed for all parts? Do I have to incorporate days or part of the practice session for technique exercises (I have seen some videos on YouTube by Bernth who gives a practise routine for alternate picking)?

Thanks and any additional feedback is welcome. Also curious how you guys structure practice sessions (daily/weekly) when you have multiple goals?

What are the best intermediate to semi difficult songs to learn on acoustic that sound good to play solo from 90s indie bands?

Looking for a really easy way to play the song London Calling using primarily power chords, but open to other kinds of chords as well. Currently teaching a kids band ages 8-13 and many of the tutorials on youtube are a bit involved/complicated for the stage they’re at. Thank you to my fellow musicians in advance.

Triads are awesome in many many contexts. But do you know them up and down the neck? There are only 3 inversions per 3-string set, for a total of 12 per chord. You can do it!

Or if it's overwhelming, just do a few chords up and down on the highest three strings, those are kind of the best ones anyway.

I know it's tempting to try and memorize the order of the shapes, but I beseech you to stay connected to the notes.

If you don't know the notes on the guitar, you will when you've done this every day for a month or two!

I’ve been playing guitar for about three years now in the last year have been more serious with trying to practice the right things. I know all the CAGED chords, pentatonic shapes and kinda how to use them with a jam track, The basic chords, couple of songs and more that isn’t coming to mind. I’m in my early twenties and work an eight to five so I try to squeeze in practice when I can that being said what would you recommend to put into my practice routine? I currently a run through of all shapes, R35s, then chords usually in a couple different keys to a metronome. For Rhythm I have sheets with one e and a two e and an and so on turn the metronome on and try to hit the patterns I’ve written out. Sometimes I’ll turn on a jam track and use the shapes I know and improvise. I would appreciate any help my main goal is to be able to make a more structured song and be able to know the guitar better I appreciate your time thank you!