Electric guitar...

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Here's some of the guitar youtube channels I like.

https://www.youtube.com/c/seandaniel23/featured

https://www.youtube.com/c/StichMethodGuitar/featured

https://www.youtube.com/c/Hpcrazy/featured

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDDHLvQb8HjE2r7_ZuNtWA/videos

Here's mine.

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A piece of advice when learning songs, sounds obvious but you don't have to play them note for note can make them simpler or even more complex than the original.
Even the original players don't always play it note for note, arrange it to your level/style.
 
I told my wife the new pedals were "CRITICAL".. LOL... She laughed and said you haven't even had your first lesson yet! LOL... With an accommodating sideways glance....
 
I can't believe they don't sell that pedal set with the amp!? It's like selling you a phone with no internet on it... It's incomplete...
 
Well I finally figured out how I got such a nice amp for so cheap.. I'm looking everywhere and see the amp for 379..
How in the heck did I pay 249?...
It seems as I paid for the mustang lt50 and they gave me the mustang GTX 50..
Actually a pretty big difference...
 
Got my first lesson last wednesday. Honestly it was a little lame as he went over all the stuff that I was able to learn on YouTube.. and then started on this book he uses that was kind of a beginner's textbook for reading notes and playing in time. I went ahead and ordered that book a stand to hold it in a stand to hold the guitar... I paid for two more lessons for the rest of the month and we'll see how it goes from there. If he's just going to reiterate what the book says I can do that on my own...
 
A lot of times people teach too much and overwhelm the student most pop and rock songs are base on a few basic chords and keys, Learn the Major chords C A G E D and minor chords am em dm, learn them in open position aka cowboy chords learn to be able to do clean chord changes from one another, after that how to emblishish them, then how to play them in a few different places on the neck "moveable chords" learn em am pentatonic scales, people have done whole music careers off as much.
After that there's a few other chords and keys but not many for pop rock.

And if you learn some music theory remember most you will hear about is base on classical music and even though can be useful has little to do with pop rock, pop rock is based on blues and breaking with norms, It's mainly playing minor over major.
 
Second lesson and second week...
Still suck, but just a tick less...
Still practicing two-three times a day...
 
Did @j par list the style of music he's interested in learning?

Maybe a list of top 5-10 favorite songs?
 
OK, I'll start.....

My first riff was "Paranoid" (what, not "Smoke On The Water"??).

My uncle spent about an hour and a half showing me the Black Sabbath chord and how to hold that shape and hammer on for the riff, as well as move the chord both on the same strings but different frets and in the same position, but one string down, then told me to go home and practice.

It was an interesting approach as it covered several bases at once, but not overly complex.

What really hooked me was the octave of the open E string that you can play (but is not necessary for practice) that really gives a full and ominous sound.
 
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Smoke On The water is a good first riff because you can play it on basically 2 strings with a simplified version of that chord shape that is those two strings at the same fret.
 
YY1 said:
OK, I'll start.....

My first riff was "Paranoid" (what, not "Smoke On The Water"??).

My uncle spent about an hour and a half showing me the Black Sabbath chord and how to hold that shape and hammer on for the riff, as well as move the chord both on the same strings but different frets and in the same position, but one string down, then told me to go home and practice.

It was an interesting approach as it covered several bases at once, but not overly complex.

What really hooked me was the octave of the open E string that you can play (but is not necessary for practice) that really gives a full and ominous sound.
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So I've been kind of going two fold the last few days. I've been working on the book just trying to work out the first string e and b on the 1st and 3rd fret and mixing those up as can be played along in the beginning but with a app on my phone and that's what the guy from the lessons is working on with me but again the time goes by there and it's fast and relatively lame and I get all flustered because I have to do it in front of somebody on command on a Time clock which kind of takes out the fun Factor...
On my own for the last 2 weeks I've been working on the first six chords of enter sandman and got that down okay not great but okay right now... And I've been working on some of the harder hitting opening refs.. the two strums on the combination of the open E and the second fret A... Then the slide from the A5 to 7 and the 6-5 on the E while giving that last five fret on the E A little motion...
Then of course the third fret E 5th fret A and then an open e and the same thing one fret up and then another hit sliding back down and back up and one last one with the open E and second fret a...
And the other night started the opening of beat it..
 
I think those songs are good choices.

The thing with the B string is that anything that uses it is different from anything played on only the EAD and G.
(except things that are only B and high E)

It's just different to work with...but you get used to it.

Don't get frustrated if you can't play all of a song. That's very common, especially leads.
There are LOTS of songs I only know the main riff to.
...and one of my favorite sayings about leads is "if I could play that like Van Halen/Glenn Tipton/Tony Iommi/etc, do you think I' would still be a computer guy all week, playing in my living room for fun?"
 
So here's some of the stuff that I wrestle with in my head.. one thing for sure I watch this one young gal learning electric guitar and she's self-taught it's very easy to find on the internet or on you boob... She has one to five year progressions self-taught and watching YouTube stuff and does pretty well. But she did in a video last night remind not to get caught up in not being able to play like Eddie Van Halen LOL but more being like a child just learning and enjoying the new sound instead of expectations which actually help quite a bit I know that but to hear it shut out loud was helpful...
 
Something that I wrestle with too is I've only been to this person for lessons twice now and we're working out of this book that has audio with it and I'm not feeling I'm getting my bang for my buck per se. I don't enjoy the time. It's more him telling me I'm not putting my hands in the right positions... I'll start with my strumming hand I like to keep my three smaller fingers open and he'll say that a lot of good players play that way but that's not the way he teaches. If it's the way I'm comfortable it's probably going to be the way I'm going to play at least for now.. on my fretting hand I know I would like to curl my fingers more but it ain't happening yet all them years of concrete construction and mechanicing ain't letting it come in the first 2 weeks...
I'll get there but it's just concentrating on too many things at once... Like I'll play the notes correctly but then he wants me to leave the number one fret down while I play the number three for it and back to the number one. I get that that would be faster but then I concentrate on that and I don't get any of the notes correct... And the next thing you know my half hour is over LOL...
 
Excuse my voice command sometimes I go back and change it but sometimes you know what I'm talking about and I don't waste my time
 
Slow and steady my friend, and above all, have fun. If you’re not having fun at the lessons, and you’re doing things that you can do without taking the lessons, then I would say not to go. However, always be on the lookout for someone who you will be comfortable with to take lessons from.

I bought my mom a mandolin for Christmas one year, and 6 lessons from my good friend who teaches out of a music store. When she didn’t take the lessons after a year, she told me to, but I took them on guitar instead. I went in with an expectation but Jarod blew right through that thought and elevated the lesson to parts unknown for me. What he taught me was not songs, but how to put together sections of soloing to use in songs. How to get in to a solo, how to fill the middle, and how to get back out, all while teaching me a song. Then he A/B/C’d me a list of different patterns within those 3 parts of a solo, and told me to mix it up, use part A from line 1 with part B of line 13, and part C of line 7, and such. It opened up my playing to a whole new level, and taught me how to improvise a solo, not by memorizing specific patterns, but to create patters of my own, or ones that he gave me. Patterns which when played in bluegrass sound one way, but fit in rock just as easy, because it is really about technique. And when we played at gigs, he would use something he showed me and give me a wink, like “you see how that works there”?

Find yourself a playing partner that you’re comfortable with, and can feed off of each other, next thing you know, you’ll be rockin’ in the free world…..so to speak!
 
cosgig said:
Slow and steady my friend, and above all, have fun. If you’re not having fun at the lessons, and you’re doing things that you can do without taking the lessons, then I would say not to go. However, always be on the lookout for someone who you will be comfortable with to take lessons from.

I bought my mom a mandolin for Christmas one year, and 6 lessons from my good friend who teaches out of a music store. When she didn’t take the lessons after a year, she told me to, but I took them on guitar instead. I went in with an expectation but Jarod blew right through that thought and elevated the lesson to parts unknown for me. What he taught me was not songs, but how to put together sections of soloing to use in songs. How to get in to a solo, how to fill the middle, and how to get back out, all while teaching me a song. Then he A/B/C’d me a list of different patterns within those 3 parts of a solo, and told me to mix it up, use part A from line 1 with part B of line 13, and part C of line 7, and such. It opened up my playing to a whole new level, and taught me how to improvise a solo, not by memorizing specific patterns, but to create patters of my own, or ones that he gave me. Patterns which when played in bluegrass sound one way, but fit in rock just as easy, because it is really about technique. And when we played at gigs, he would use something he showed me and give me a wink, like “you see how that works there”?

Find yourself a playing partner that you’re comfortable with, and can feed off of each other, next thing you know, you’ll be rockin’ in the free world…..so to speak!
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The mandolin has been hands down the easiest instrument I have ever picked up on.
 
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