How should my guitar practices evolve?
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Scales are good exercise but above all, CHALLENGE yourself.  Learn stuff that you don't know and that is beyond your ability.  I remember back when I was learning.  (Well I'm STILL learning but have been playing for almost 30 years) I looked at the song "Crazy on You" by "Heart".  There were two chords that I didn't know and at the time, they weren't easy for me at all. F#m and C#m.  Well I learned them and realized that the F#m position ONE fret up was a Gm.  Same went for the C#m.  Anyway, it opened up my ability four fold.  Weather it's a complicated scale or a strange chord that you don't know, LEARN it.  Want a workout?  Go to www.e-chords.com and look up some Beatles songs.  Open your mind to all sorts of music and listen to the arrangements and the chord structures.  LEARN them.  It will make you a better musician.  Good luck.\n\nKarl Withakay
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Thanks to the Internet, I have like thousands before me, learned to play the guitar on line. And I'm so glad that I can share some of the links with you here-\n\nhttp://www.fretplay.com/guitar-lessons.shtml\nhttp://www.guitarmasterclass.net\nhttp://www.sickguitar.com\nhttp://www.freeguitarvideos.com/\nhttp://www.guitaralliance.com\nhttp://youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+to+play+guitar\nhttp://www.shredaholic.com\nhttp://www.guitarjamdaily.com\nhttp://guitar.about.com/library/blguitar\nhttp://www.cyberfret.com/\nhttp://www.onlineguitarlessons.co.uk/\nhttp://www.guitarnoise.com\nhttp://www.jamorama.com/?hop=astronut\n\nRemember practice makes perfect. With lots of practice and perseverance, soon you will find yourself playing the guitar proficiently.
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Don't fret, baby, you're getting the right answers.....\nKey to being able to make guitar chords/notes sound crisp and clean...Being able to press down and hold string on frets.  Get hand/fingers muscles flexible by regularly squeezing a racquetball or tennis ball.  You'll develop small callouses first on your fingertips, but press on (pun intended!) and you'll be strumming fine in no time!
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I have been teaching myself guitar for about a year now and I can help you out. I play alota of metal and gothic rock but music is music man so I don't think that will matter too much.\n\nThink of your guitar as an extension to your soul, so try to keep it cleaned up and polished. Try not to chip the paint and also use fret luve to help protect your fretts from damage and it will also increase the "action" of your guitar playing by making it a little easyer to move around on the strings.\n\nKeep you guitar on a stand or in the case, but also dont lean it up against anything because it might turn, or even break the tuners.\n\nWhen your cleaning your guitar use a type of soft fabric that wont scratch the surface or look for a polishing kit that you can get at almost any guitar or music store.\n\n As for learning how to play, I would recommend getting guitar lessons or going onto http://www.google.com and typeing in guitar lessons.\nAs you become more familure with your guitar search for guitar tabs to some of your favorite songs that you think you could play. Also always challange yourself, and when you practice, think of something you actualy want to practice. If you want to climb the neck of the guitar real fast then work on it until you know you have it down pat, and always improve.\n\nBut most importantly, feel the music man and have fun dude because guitar is truely the style and crunch that music is loved for.
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changing a stratacoustic's strings:\n\n1- unwind old strings so that they're loose. cut them in the middle if you want to make them shorter/easier to deal with while throwing them away.\n\n2- pop out pins from bridge, and take out the strings.\n\n3-put new string balls in line with the holes, and use the pegs to guide them into the bridge. make sure the groove in the pin is pointing toward the neck of the guitar.\n\n4- put the strings up through the tuning pegs.\n\n5- put your hand on the neck, UNDER the strings. turn your hand so that its in the position you'd use to "karate chop" the guitar. now, spread your fingers apart (this step ensures you'll have enough extra string to wrap around the tuners, different ppl use different amounts. i like to not have too much extra.).\n\n6- tune guitar to pitch.\n\n7 - you'll probably notice that your guitar will go out of tune as you're tuning, or for the first 20 minutes or so as you play. thats the strings stretching. if you just lightly tug the strings before you start and retune them, that will go away faster. you may need to repeat that step a few times.
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learn to play the guitar first, practice the movement of your fingers and search for tabs of the song, there's probably tons available
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I taught myself and to be honest you don't have to go by every single little thing the books tell you. To be perfectly honest I just bought a guitar (actually it was a birthday present), bought some basic gear and went from there. \n\nAs I went on I learned what to do on my own like the scales and how to play them. Although to this day I don't know their names or whether they're minor or major I know their fret notes. If I can do this I'm sure a lot more people can. \n\nI also found out that as you go along you always learn from others who play guitar and what to do. I myself have committed to the self-teaching method and only ask a few questions when I take my guitar in for basic maintenance. Everything else has been by ear and never from anyone else but me. \n\nTo do this you just have to keep on playing until you find a style that suits you. I learned right off the bat that I was a rhythm guitarist so I decided to use drop-D tuning and it sounds fine. You just have to keep on learning and find your own style. If you just keep practicing you'll get better and better and if you also experiment on acoustic and the piano you can also find some very cool chords to play.
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practice practice practice.
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There are loads of cool online guitar courses. The website below has got some decent reviews if your interested.
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Hi!  When I was first teaching myself how to play guitar, I tried to find some good sites to help me do that.  I found a few, (www.cyberfret.com was a good one), but ultimately, what worked best was just learning song-by-song and picking up more and more as I went along.  However, www.cyberfret.com will give you many basic lessons to help give you a jump start.
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You guys should learn some Stone Temple Pilots. It's good for guitarists to learn because the guitar in STP often goes from just simple power chords, to more complex chords. Theres also some solos. Me an my roomate have been playing a lot of STP together, he sings and I play guitar.
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I have played for many years. Little of both - some lessons to start me out and then the passion took over.\n\nMany sites on the web for learning and some are free.\nSearch for "guitar lessons" with the quotes.\n\n ♫♪♫
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Practice, practice, practice etc,etc,etc,....
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Hi, when i learned i only took lessons for about a month and they were helpful mostly because i had homework and i felt like i had to do it. What i am trying to say is that if you have patience and really make yourself practice you will learn by yourself. Check this site; it is mainly for folk music but it has good lessons to start out. http://www.folkofthewood.com/page5301.htm\n\nThis other site is also good for lessons and you can even find a lot of tablatures. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/for_beginners/\n\nThis other site is also good for lessons and here you can see the basic guitar chords. http://www.cyberfret.com/chords/beginning-7/index.php\n\nWhat type of music do you want to learn? Some styles are harder than others. For example. the first songs that i learned were Zombie by The Cranberries ( very easy) and Redemption Song ( Bob Marley).\n\nOh one more thing. Do a lot of practice exercises for both your right and left hand. Before you start learning songs, learn the basic chords.\n\nWell hope that this is helpful, If you have any questions let me know...jonny
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Use a metronome and go over licks that you want to speed up. Gradually bring it up faster, but stop if you are making mistakes. You don't want to make the habit of playing fast and sloppy. Use alternating picking (Picking the notes upstroke and down), don't brink your fingers too far from the fretboard.
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i know this one i play the bass!!! have you ever heard the song by the pixies? its called gigantic! its awesome just figure out the beginning and practice that before you start to play! or first 4 frets on every string- u could also try that too! either one works but when you play gigantic its a little better!
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Picking up my guitar- I need a reminder on how to tune it.