Another guitar lessons question has come in this week. Let’s tackle it straight away:
Question: Alright, my friend wants me to join his band, and has let me borrow one of his lesser quality guitars, an amp, and obviously the case and pick. Basically, he taught me what everything on the guitar was called, the neck, headstock, frets, strings, blah blah blah.
Problem is after that, he left. Leaving me to figure out how to play by sometime in October. Is there anything that people out there can tell me? I know that a lot of guitar players (By the way, he wants me to play rhythm guitar if that helps) were self taught, but how? If there are any free online instructional videos and/or guides that someone can link me to, please do.
And if there are any people who have tips and pointers to give me, I would REALLY appreciate it. Thanks!
And no, saying blah blah blah doesn’t mean I’m not into it. I really want to learn, but I thought it would be a bit pointless to go through each piece of the guitar that I can identify, seeing as that’s not what I need to be taught.
However, think what you want.
Answer: blah blah blah, looks like you’re not really into it.
Edit: Never let anyone force you to learn to play a ‘position’. Tell him you’ll look into it and concentrate in that major but never settle down for it. Your goal is try to learn everyhing that interests you.
Some great begginer sites are
Justin’s guitar
perfect tab sites
www.ultimate-guitar.com
just learn the basic chords
than learn major and minor naturl scalse
learn pentatonic scales
pentatonic blues scales
and so on..
learn power chords
learn how to build a chord anywhere on the fretboard
learn a bit of music theory
This week’s question is as follows:
Question: Can anyone tell me from their own ear what the chords for guitar for Will Youngs "Who am I?"
I found an awful version saying tuning down the guitar.
They’re all wrong so if someone who is good at the guitar could work it out, it’d be really appreciated!!
Answer: who is will young???
try the web.prob ultimate guitar or tab crawler.
Well here’s a question I just had to answering straight away:
Question: Guitar Players?technically Brilliant or Havin a Feel for What They Are Playing?who Rocks and Who Sucks?
Answer: To answer this question one has to consider more than one genre of music. The usual answers to questions like these are Clapton, Van Halen, and Santana, They are great but they are far, far, far, from the best. You have to look at the classical guitarists as well as the jazz players. I think Santana can play it all. Clapton got creamed by George Benson when he tried to do a duet with him. Clapton is one dimensional and is best when he plays blues based rock. Van Haylen won’t even try jazz or classical because he would get lost. Some of the best players in the business are people you don’t even know.
I speak from experience as one who is in the business.
Keep the guitar players questions coming! I liked this one:
Question: I would like to own a gibson voodoo explorer if i had the cash lol.
Answer: I have a Les Paul Goddess and a Stratocaster and a 67 Telecaster which was passed down from my dad.
But if I had a ton of cash to blow right now I think I would go for this Gibson SG Custom which I have had my eye on for a while: http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/5/1/8/396518.jpg It’s just so beautiful….
