Hello, I recently destroyed my shoulder and can barely lift my arm so I cannot strum my guitar. Im relatively new to guitar but completely addicted, I’ve been playing often since march so I only know some basic chords and working on singing in rhythm. I learn fastest by writing lyrics and messing around with different chord progression. Is there a way to do hammer on and pull off only songs? never worked on these skills but nows a good time considering.

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.

I’m creating Strino: an app to help guitar players with chords I already have an Android version published, I will still upload more things and add them too

Hi ! I started playing the folk guitar a few months ago, I have some tracks to my credit (Jonnhy Cash, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, McCafferty...) and I would really like to learn Oliver Tree’s Cash Machine. It’s mainly my friends who teach me to play and I’m still struggling to read tablatures (and even less the music notes) but I found this video on YouTube that doesn’t explain too badly how to play it. Unfortunately, English is not my native language, so I’m struggling to understand what it explains in terms of "where to place my fingers". Would someone have a tablature on hand or could translate that into chords for me ?

Thank you so much for your help, I know my request is kind of strange but I'm just a lost beginner :'

The tutorial for the chords

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.

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

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

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.

Anyone use this instruction book? Thoughts?

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

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 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...

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

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'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.

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.

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.🙄