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.

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)

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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 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?

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

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 been playing electric since I was young, I haven't played in a while and since then I've grown my nails out. They are in the way I think, but do y'all think it's possible to play with this length if I keep practicing or is there really no way? Maybe a little shorter? I have had nails before but this is the longest I've had them...

I love my guitar btw, she's so pretty

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.

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...

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.🙄

I used to play quite a lot, was I good? No. But for the past year or so lots has happened and I haven’t been able to play and ultimately I’ve forgotten almost everything. So if you had to re learn everything whats like the main things you would do? Also any good websites,apps or YouTube videos that could help? Fyi I am unable to get actual lessons for a multitude of reasons, though I know it’s probably the best thing to do

Are barre chords on acoustic more about getting it closest to the fret or is it finger strength? I barely have to apply pressure on my electric to get a good sound.