Whats the Best Tip You Can Give to an Intermediate Guitar Player with Good Theory Behind Them?
Posted in guitar players on 06. Oct, 2009
What a great guitar players question:
Question: Whats the Best Tip You Can Give to an Intermediate Guitar Player with Good Theory Behind Them?
Answer: Perfect practice makes perfect.
Never practice anything faster than you can play it. Practicing mistakes only reinforces mistakes. Speed and accuracy comes from repetition.
Theory is an important part of the equation but music is physical as well. Like in sports, warm up slowly. The more you practice and play the more endurance you will develop.
The more that you put into it the more you will get out of it.
Have fun with it.
Good luck.
Never practice anything faster than you can play it. Practicing mistakes only reinforces mistakes. Speed and accuracy comes from repetition.
Theory is an important part of the equation but music is physical as well. Like in sports, warm up slowly. The more you practice and play the more endurance you will develop.
The more that you put into it the more you will get out of it.
Have fun with it.
Good luck.
mahahahaha
play until your fingers bleed.
Go and see as many performers playing the style that you are most fond of and the style u play most.
(I have the rudiments of the guitar, so I don’t know if that makes me "intermediate" also)
I’m learning the Blues fingerpicking style at the minute and that’s what the book says, and I think it’s good advice!
In fact , what the blazes am I doing on the net when I should be practising!!!!AAAAH!!!!
Mmmm… you must keep the practice, and play while you listen your favorite music… and, never wash your hands inmediatly after you’ve been playing, the cold of the water can cause you a disease if you do that frequentely and then, you couldn’t never play again with the same speed, or even put the fingers in the way you should. I’ve been playin’ almost… 11 years and I consider to myself that I’m an intermediate too, but I hope still doing this until I have 80.
Learn the scales all over the neck. Be able to transition anywhere on the fretboard so you know where you are and where you’re going next. And constantly practice your hammers and pull-offs, especially with that pinky. You never see a really good guitarist with a lazy pinky.
Added tip – wrap your thumb around the neck – sometimes an extra finger on the low strings can help out a lot.