Five minutes every day is more beneficial than one hour once a week.
It gets easier and more rewarding as you go along. Keep at it. Record yourself on your phone and then listen to it one month later. You will here the progress and will be encouraged.
I use these two websites, dipping in and out of both sets of lessons depending on what I want to practice. Andyguitar has better songs to learn though.
As for practice, don't just knuckle down at the weekend, that's the mistake I made. You're better off doing a bit every day rather than big sessions once a week.
I picked mine up over Christmas for the first time in 25 years. Put new strings on and downloaded a tuner app. Enjoying dabbling although I’m completely rubbish. Been finding a few random lessons on YouTube but need some structured tuition. And boy do my fingers hurt! Going to persevere though.
As above, for all returnees and newbies, Justin Guitar on Youtube. And get yourself to places like the Pelton Arms for their acoustic nights and chat to the musicians, all worthwhile musicians will give you tips. Enjoy the journey.
Learn to tune it properly and treat yourself to new strings once a month. Learn Am G F C Em and D chords and invest in a quick release capo. Go to a site like Ultimate Guitar, look for your favourite simple songs and use the transpose function if there are lots of # or b (sharp and flat) signs until the chords look like something you recognise. Use the capo up the neck if it is in the wrong key for your voice. Consider a teacher for 2 or 3 lessons just to get you started.
I agree with the people who say pick it up every day for a few minutes.
Five minutes every day is more beneficial than one hour once a week.
It gets easier and more rewarding as you go along. Keep at it. Record yourself on your phone and then listen to it one month later. You will here the progress and will be encouraged.
Lots of good tips here. Agree with 5m a day rule, get a flesh and blood teacher, practice with rhythm (metronome ..?) And slow down !!! Jam with others, and always sing to develop chord/melody Relationship understandin. ...and I'm a piano player....
As above, for all returnees and newbies, Justin Guitar on Youtube. And get yourself to places like the Pelton Arms for their acoustic nights and chat to the musicians, all worthwhile musicians will give you tips. Enjoy the journey.
As Greenie says, and set yourself a goal, open Mic or something like that. If you wanna sing do it now you won't regret it.
Bert Weedon, that is how I learnt to play. After playing the guitar for forty years I am rather good. Also try and get yourself a decent guitar. If you can afford it a Gibson or a Martin.
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing
Bert Weedon, that is how I learnt to play. After playing the guitar for forty years I am rather good. Also try and get yourself a decent guitar. If you can afford it a Gibson or a Martin.
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing
And if you can't afford the Gibson or Martin. Recording King @ £3/400 are excellent.
Bert Weedon, that is how I learnt to play. After playing the guitar for forty years I am rather good. Also try and get yourself a decent guitar. If you can afford it a Gibson or a Martin.
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing
And if you can't afford the Gibson or Martin. Recording King @ £3/400 are excellent.
A Taylor GS Mini is great for leaving out around the house.
Lots of good tips here. Agree with 5m a day rule, get a flesh and blood teacher, practice with rhythm (metronome ..?) And slow down !!! Jam with others, and always sing to develop chord/melody Relationship understandin. ...and I'm a piano player....
What if your singing voice is like rubbing your ears with an out of tune cheese grater?
Bert Weedon, that is how I learnt to play. After playing the guitar for forty years I am rather good. Also try and get yourself a decent guitar. If you can afford it a Gibson or a Martin.
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing
And if you can't afford the Gibson or Martin. Recording King @ £3/400 are excellent.
A Taylor GS Mini is great for leaving out around the house.
If you like the Gibson’s you can get something very similar from Epiphone, you just need to get it set up by a decent luthier.
Lots of good tips here. Agree with 5m a day rule, get a flesh and blood teacher, practice with rhythm (metronome ..?) And slow down !!! Jam with others, and always sing to develop chord/melody Relationship understandin. ...and I'm a piano player....
What if your singing voice is like rubbing your ears with an out of tune cheese grater?
The singing bit is not some kind of 'The voice' performance for approval, it is necessary in order for the whole thing to make sense. You may pick up a Guitar, but you are actually learning music. As my classical piano teacher slamming the piano lid on my finger shouting: ' Sing !!!' Use to explain: if you sing it, your fingers will follow. P.s. I bet if you sing with conviction - leaving all the British inhibition bollocks behind you'll sound like... you. Life's too short and all that...
All good advice on here for you and agree short, regular practice is good, fiddle around with the main basic chords, D in particular has many variants that give great opportunities for little hammer on's. Listen to people like Greenie and Saga Lout as they are proper players and one last thing whilst owning a Martin or Gibson is nice they are VERY expensive. Rarely do players own this kind of guitar straight off I have a Freshman, which is UK made, extremely good guitar that cost about £400, spruce top no laminates and is just beautiful. Can also recommend Yamaha who also produce great value for money acoustics. Enjoy
Ah... one more thing, I know as a piano player I'm biased but get yourself a little keyboard. Anything, the cheapest you can find but one that will serve you as a drawing board. The notes on the keyboard are easy to see and all the chords progressions will make a lot more sense...
I am aware that there is some advice flying around about guitar preferences. You've just got a guitar...what did you get? Ukulele is not at all a bad preparation for guitar playing. What kind of Uke did you play? Baritone or soprano? (DGBE or GCEA?) The chord shapes are similar or transpose easily and strumming and fingerpicking are great skills to have. As a guitarist of a few decades I only played a Uke for the first time around 5 years ago and I loved it. Keep your Uke playing going while you learn guitar would be my advice...playing one instrument informs the playing of another. I now play banjo, guitar, Irish bouzouki, Uke and dobro. I learn a song on one and then try it out on the others...amazing how it changes the interpretation and great fun too.
Similar experience to Wheremeticket. After playing the guitar for about 45 years, I picked up a Uke at the beginning of 2017 and found it great fun. I agree that it's good preparation for learning the guitar as the chord shapes are the same.
As to where to learn, in recent years if I want to learn a song I just type it into YouTube - there's normally a lesson on there, assuming you're not into really obscure stuff. Quality is variable though.
Cheers for that link, Oakster. I clicked through to the Happy Mondays page and had a good time learning those riffs this afternoon.
One book I can recommend is Neil Cowmeadow's 9 Weird Things Guitarists Do. It won't teach you a single chord, scale of riff but it will highlight some of the common pitfalls (mainly in our own thinking).
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Five minutes every day is more beneficial than one hour once a week.
It gets easier and more rewarding as you go along. Keep at it. Record yourself on your phone and then listen to it one month later. You will here the progress and will be encouraged.
Good luck.
https://www.justinguitar.com/
https://www.andyguitar.co.uk/
As for practice, don't just knuckle down at the weekend, that's the mistake I made. You're better off doing a bit every day rather than big sessions once a week.
And get yourself to places like the Pelton Arms for their acoustic nights and chat to the musicians, all worthwhile musicians will give you tips.
Enjoy the journey.
I agree with the people who say pick it up every day for a few minutes.
only joking. Good luck & hope it gives your hours of enjoyment.
Relationship understandin.
...and I'm a piano player....
Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/80465/musicians-bands/p1?new=1
https://www.guitarhero.com/uk/en/
https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk/songs-etc/
You may pick up a Guitar, but you are actually learning music.
As my classical piano teacher slamming the piano lid on my finger shouting: ' Sing !!!' Use to explain: if you sing it, your fingers will follow.
P.s. I bet if you sing with conviction - leaving all the British inhibition bollocks behind you'll sound like... you.
Life's too short and all that...
Keep your fingernails short and with practice you'll harden your finger tips. Takes a while but you'll get there and it won't hurt on the steels.
Learn D, C, G, Am, Em chords and you'll then be able to jump between those chords to make up a melody for rhythm/strumming.
Good luck but most of all enjoy.
As to where to learn, in recent years if I want to learn a song I just type it into YouTube - there's normally a lesson on there, assuming you're not into really obscure stuff. Quality is variable though.
One book I can recommend is Neil Cowmeadow's 9 Weird Things Guitarists Do. It won't teach you a single chord, scale of riff but it will highlight some of the common pitfalls (mainly in our own thinking).