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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Feb 18, 2018 16:36:16 GMT
Besides... there are only three chords to learn, so...  |
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Post by curiousgirl on Feb 21, 2018 23:11:51 GMT
Stick at it, and this could be you in thirty years, smq....this is quality! That's great. I looked at it on youtube and this also came up. And even though I have no idea of the game music, I love this one too. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 23:37:05 GMT
Stick at it, and this could be you in thirty years, smq....this is quality! That's great. I looked at it on youtube and this also came up. And even though I have no idea of the game music, I love this one too. I could listen to that all night long. Fantastic stuff. |
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Post by Gaz on Feb 22, 2018 10:29:44 GMT
Bugga ya'z I'd rather have the gift to play this than win lotto...(well you know what I mean)  Imagine Rick jammin away all night with this magic....that special night. All these decades later it is so special. |
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 22, 2018 23:28:47 GMT
Take it easy, mate.... you are no longer the teen that lives inside your head. Slow an' easy... (Whitesnake) Take your time, do NOT put up a deadline, just keep rollin on... One chord at the time, learn the positions, learn them without looking... you are learning so many things at the moment.... fingers, how to strum, right and left hand sync, the wrists.... take it easy! And don't give up! One day you'll feel the difference... I’ll probably be dead by then 💀. (But thanks for encouragement WC) Even I know that playing guitar is about getting your hands to do things they weren't accustomed to doing, and to do them without looking or thinking. (Eventually you will need the thinking to be doing something else.) That doesn't take an hour or a day or seven weeks or seven months, but it will stay with you. I hardly ever pick up my guitar now, but 20 years later my left hand pinkie still stretches about an inch further than the right hand one. (Thanks, Rick.) |
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Post by charles on Feb 23, 2018 15:52:22 GMT
Right smq, back to work!
(When I was a lot younger I wanted to start playing the guitar. I saw Rory and that ended every ambition. Remained a fan of course.)
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 23, 2018 17:01:58 GMT
This is still my favourite. Awesome guitar playing. The ending is stunning. I never tire of watching this. Hillbilly pish! |
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 23, 2018 17:08:49 GMT
This is the standard we should all aim to achieve. Now, where's my guitar I got when I was 9.
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 23, 2018 17:29:33 GMT
This is you.  |
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Post by Mustang Bass on Feb 23, 2018 17:50:22 GMT
Take it easy, mate.... you are no longer the teen that lives inside your head. Slow an' easy... (Whitesnake) Take your time, do NOT put up a deadline, just keep rollin on... One chord at the time, learn the positions, learn them without looking... you are learning so many things at the moment.... fingers, how to strum, right and left hand sync, the wrists.... take it easy! And don't give up! One day you'll feel the difference... I’ll probably be dead by then 💀. (But thanks for encouragement WC) Is your G-string too tight? What are you like at fingering? Have you tried strumming in public? Maybe your truss needs adjusting. |
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Post by smq on Feb 23, 2018 19:14:02 GMT
I’ll probably be dead by then 💀. (But thanks for encouragement WC) Is your G-string too tight? What are you like at fingering? Have you tried strumming in public? Maybe your truss needs adjusting. 🤪 probably all of the above MB! |
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Post by smq on Feb 23, 2018 19:15:50 GMT
Stick at it, and this could be you in thirty years, smq....this is quality! As I keep pointing out, I ain’t got that long! |
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Post by gatesheadbanger on Mar 9, 2018 21:38:26 GMT
if you do need to miss out odd strings in the middle (common in 4 note jazz chord playing) you rest the sides of your fingertips (which are busy pressing the notes you do want) on the unwanted strings to deaden them - that way you strum all 6 but only hear 4 of them. The chord below is major 7 chord. You want to hear strings 6,4,3,2 and 1, but not 5. You cannot really tell, but in the photo the player is using the tip of their index finger to fret the 6 string, and the fleshy fingerprint area to rest on string 5 and damp it to silence. (Interestingly, they are also using the hind part of their index finger to fret string 1 - one finger, fretting two strings on two different frets, and dampening a third string!).  A dead easy one that then ghb!? Six or seven weeks in and I’m feeling thoroughly frustrated 🤬. Just don’t feel I’m getting anywhere and coming to the conclusion that I’m probably just crap at this. Know one or two more chords although still struggling to play some consistently well (D I am finding very tricky still - so fiddly). Most frustratingly, I still can’t seem to change chords quickly enough. Even with metronome set to “grave” (tells you all you need to know about how slow that is!) I’m still unable to strum in time and make the chord changes. Surely I should be doing better than this by now? Am I wasting my time? Honest answers please ☹️ Soz! I just posted that to answer the query about how you can miss strings out in a strum. This sort of chord is not one you'd get into in the early days. Hang in there smq, because it is always a slow start and the momentum builds (and after a few years it plateaus again and progress gets hard again - but by then you are good enough to play publicly!). Don't give up - things go through a series of "clicks" and the guitar eventually feels like part of your body. Remember learning to drive.....? |
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Post by smq on Mar 14, 2018 13:16:48 GMT
No offence taken ghb! I’m certainly trying to persevere. Weekly one to one lesson and working through the Justin Guitar Beginners Course. Signs of progress at last. Can do a passable “My Hometown” (not the bridge bit obviously!) and also “I walk the line” albeit simplified versions which is quite satisfying. Still finding the A to D change a bit slow. Wondering about the merits of changing how I play A (currently fingers 1,2 and 3 in a straight line on strings) to the method advocated by Justin where finger two overlaps finger one (hope that makes sense to the guitar players at least). Finding that makes it harder to form A chord but quicker and easier to switch to D. Thoughts?
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Post by gatesheadbanger on Apr 5, 2018 21:34:31 GMT
No offence taken ghb! I’m certainly trying to persevere. Weekly one to one lesson and working through the Justin Guitar Beginners Course. Signs of progress at last. Can do a passable “My Hometown” (not the bridge bit obviously!) and also “I walk the line” albeit simplified versions which is quite satisfying. Still finding the A to D change a bit slow. Wondering about the merits of changing how I play A (currently fingers 1,2 and 3 in a straight line on strings) to the method advocated by Justin where finger two overlaps finger one (hope that makes sense to the guitar players at least). Finding that makes it harder to form A chord but quicker and easier to switch to D. Thoughts? Oh yes - I almost always play open A with my index finger on the 3rd string, middle on 4th and ring on 2nd. The change to D is easier then as you don't lift your index finger up - also makes the change to E easier. Only other way I play A is barred across 2nd, 3rd, 4th with my index finger, to free up the other three for walking bassline stuff like in Slow Train or the Led Zep song "rock n roll". |
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Imagine Rick jammin away all night with this magic....that special night. All these decades later it is so special.
