Hello guys! It’s been a while haha. Just a recap, I’m trying to play the entire Green Day’s American Idiot album in one take. All 13 songs. This is part of my new strumming “training program”. Strumming and chords is one of my weakness as I don’t do enough of them. From the start I’ve been focusing a lot on guitar solos. As a result my sense of timing, chord transition, and ability to play chords are not up to par so I started this program to fix these problems.

I’ve been on this program for about 4-5 weeks and I can now play American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, Boulevard of broken dreams, and Are we the waiting, all in one take. I have mostly learnt the rest of the album like Wake me up when September ends, Whatsername, and Letterbomb, but I’m getting lazy 🤣 I have been distracted by gaming recently. Last two weeks ago, I started playing Pokemon Black and Monster Hunter rise and I just want to spend less time on guitar so that I can game 🤣🤣

As a result I might not play the entire album in one take. I think I might just do half the album and I’ll be happy with that. I feel like I want to move on to other stuffs.

I’ve posted a video of Boulevard of broken dreams to serve as a progress update. If you would like to help, I would like feedback specifically regarding rhythm. I fall in and out of rhythm quite a few times and I wonder if there’s anything I’m doing wrong. I’m not looking for generic advice like play to a metronome or play slow because you can assume I’m already doing these things. My problem is I sometimes hear the music in my head, but not the actual music that I’m playing. So in my head everything sounds on time, and when I record myself and review the video, I still hear that I’m on time because I’m projecting the music I’m hearing in my head. But when someone tells me I’m out of time, the spell is broken and I can very CLEARLY hear I’m out of timing. How do I avoid this? 😭😭😭

I found these books around 7 years ago, occasionally I will open one up just to take myself out of my comfort zone. I think there are video recordings to go with these that I haven’t gotten my hands on.

There’s a ton of theory information in these books.

So I'm a professional bass player and fairly competent at rhythm guitar, but I really want to get better at guitar solos, especially in a pop/rock context. I'd love to learn some iconic solos to expand my vocabulary. So what would you guys say, what are your essential solos that can really help getting gud at soloing?

The pedal i very cheap and idk how to make it sound like distortion, i think i did it on amp but like how do i even use this pedal, and is it even good?

I seriously need advice for learning how to palm mute. I’ve looked through multiple videos and guides on YouTube but somehow i still can’t get it right. Every time I’ve tried I end up muting the string completely. Do you guys have any advice on what to do, or something that helped you learn it?

For some reasons it feels like electric guitar doesn't agree with my body at all. I can never seen to find a comfortable posture, either sitting or standing. While sitting down with the guitar in the right leg I get sore in my right shoulder from having to keep it lifted up. When playing in classical posture(guitar between legs), my picking arm feels great but my back gets sore.

Same with standing, my strap length never seems to be ideal. Either I let it hang at my hips, which affects my fretting hand. The opposite, pulling it up to the chest, again affects my picking hand shoulder.

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 been playing guitar for 8 months and my main genre is r&b. Does anyone have advice to improve in it other then chord hammer on and pull offs or any songs i should learn or chord voicings

Hi all, I’m curious about how to “miss” strings while strumming somewhat faster. For example, if I’m playing a progression of triads on the top three strings, and I’m strumming eighth notes in a reasonably fast time, I find I’m always hitting the other strings. I know I can mute sometimes with my fretting hand (like with the movable B7 chord), but that’s for strings next to my fingers, not all three.

Do I need to just “get better at strumming”, missing particular strings? I can do it when I go super slowly, but that rhythmic, fast, down-up strumming always hits all 6 strings or none. If so, what exercises work on that?

Hey fellow people, I’m having big difficulties with these two chords. In the song I’m learning, I play the F#m7 then the F#m9. With the F#m7 I feel like I’m always muting the D string of the 16th fret with my ring finger on the A string of the same fret and when I get it, I often mute or buzz the high E string and B string. Also, when I change from F#m7 to F#m9, I need to reposition my barring index finger on the 14th fret because I’m adding my pinky on the 16th fret high E string. Therefore, buzzing and muting the high E string and B string. Did anybody ever experience this problem? Usually, I’m good and confortable with doing barre chords but up the 14th fret it’s very much harder. Are these two chords hard generally? Any help would be appreciated thank you!

What do these symbols mean is the first one just a normal pick scrape?

Hello people I have been learning guitar since 5 months and I want to learn Fingersyle of the song Senorita by Shawn Mendes. You may think that this is early to get into Fingersyle but I genuinely want to play it. But all the tutorials out there on YouTube are with a capo and I want it without capo. So can anyone guide me how to do it????

I want to play like this - https://youtube.com/watch?v=FmsM9PbqN_I&si=jYrc0QDu1IN0rQn7

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’m an intermediate player focused on acoustic and finger picking, but I’m not as fluent on the fretboard as I’d like to be. My goal is to be able to play like Christian Lee Hutson, Emma Harner and the Milk Carton Kids. What skills should I practice specifically to play delicately and melodically like them?

I am looking for someone to make a video tutorial for the song Bless the Telephone by Labi Siffre (I’ll pay, of course). It is the song my wife walked down the aisle to and is “our song.” I would love to learn it but don’t quite have the time to actually learn guitar. I know the basic chords and can play some easy songs, but that is the extent to my guitar playing. In other words, I want a break down of the song that is easy to follow and can help me learn the song over the next year.

might be a word vomit post and more of a mindset/perspective question to bring me back to playing like i did when i was younger. i've been playing guitar since 2016. technicality wise, i could say that i got my fundamentals down after 3 years of playing, but after that, i suddenly didn't practice as hard or as much anymore and barely played and could even count the times that i picked up the guitar in a single year. it's like i thought i knew everything even though i didn't and stopped to even bother learning the songs. i still played time to time along the years and my guitar playing is decent, it's just that i feel stuck in my head between knowing too much and playing too little. learning a song feels overwhelming because of the thought that i already "know" and the thought that i'm not a beginner anymore. i'm not a great guitarist but i can play decently, but i only have few songs that i play because i was so focused in the technicalities and i only learn new songs when there's an upcoming gig. i always feel like i'm running out of time to be an actual decent/good guitarist. i genuinely need help and i want to bring the spark and joy of learning back. i'm currently 19 years old but i feel like i'm running out of time to be a good musician as i feel like i've wasted so many years. i feel like i haven't put in the time to be the better musician that i could be and actually have strong influences and actually feel like i know myself musically. i feel like a fraud and that i'm just posing as a musician, but i want to be more than this. i just feel that i've wasted so much time.

I’ve been playing guitar for over 15 years, I’ve always used my fingers in a somewhat flamenco style, but I feel like that has limited me to some degree, and I’m finally serious about learning to use a pick. So I have two requests.

1. Any YouTube channels that really do a good job from a beginner standpoint to use the pick, practice licks, etc?

2. I’m intermediate to advanced on chords and jamming with single notes but I’d like to learn more as I have plateaued of last several years. Any recommendations for a good YouTube channel or website for this?

Hey, I have been playing guitar for around 5 years now and was always playing a little bit electric guitar. But 2 months ago i fully started playing and learning more about playing the electric guitar.

I am now getting into more solos since i want to learn full songs instead of bits and pieces.

And the problem is with the Pantera - Cemetary Gates solo. How to i learn to play as fast as Dimebag and how to i learn to do those "hammer ons" and pull offs.

Do you have any exercises with or without my guitar on how to get better at those.

TLDR: How to play fast solos with "hammer ons" and pull offs.

Thank you

I tried to bar the 5th fret with my ring finger, but my ring finger also always presses on the high E string, or if i lift it, my finger mutes the High E string, any ways to fix it?

(Song is called Shine As Usual)

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