How do I play guitar? I know I started way too late but how do I even get good at this? I want to play my favorite music on the guitar but the road there is so fucking long, and all this time I'm not even doing anything remotely close to what I want to do with a guitar. What am I supposed to do to get better? Every time I practice for like a few weeks consistently and go back to trying to play my favorite music it just comes out wrong all the time, like the spider walk practice and the notes practice meant nothing this whole time. tl;dr what am I supposed to practice to get good and be able to play music?
What type of music are you trying to play. Most music is not going to sound remotely like what you want unless it was acoustic to begin with and with little accompanying it.I suggest you just get good about being consistent. You dont have to practice 2 hours a day. Just try five minutes. Make it a routine.As far as what to practice? Depends on where you are at. Learn chords. These are easy and give you good mileage. I would also strongly recommend learning to read music. Yes its cumbersome at first and tab is a lot more intuitive to pick up, but in the long run, you see more returns.Lastly, consider theory. There is theory pertaining to the guitar, but im more so just referring to the different types of chords, intervals, and the associated sounds that arise from stacking them.There's loads of cheap practice exercises you can do which will help you improve your technical skill but truth be told, for the majority of contemporary music that is meant to be performed, there is not a lot of technicality going on, just a lot of practice and repetition.
>>34441762>What type of music are you trying to play. Most music is not going to sound remotely like what you want unless it was acoustic to begin with and with little accompanying it.Bit of Metallica, bit of rock and a bit of acoustic type music like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdl6V5otgoY>I suggest you just get good about being consistent. You dont have to practice 2 hours a day. Just try five minutes. Make it a routine.>As far as what to practice? Depends on where you are at. Learn chords. These are easy and give you good mileage. I would also strongly recommend learning to read music. Yes its cumbersome at first and tab is a lot more intuitive to pick up, but in the long run, you see more returns.>Lastly, consider theory. There is theory pertaining to the guitar, but im more so just referring to the different types of chords, intervals, and the associated sounds that arise from stacking them.My issue is I still don't understand how these would lead to me being able to play the music I want to play. Sure I can play the chords and strum them but I still take too long to switch between them. How will practicing more chords lead to playing faster or switching fast? and how will learning about music theory help? Everyone says to do those things but no one shows how they translate to skill>There's loads of cheap practice exercises you can do which will help you improve your technical skill but truth be told, for the majority of contemporary music that is meant to be performed, there is not a lot of technicality going on, just a lot of practice and repetition.Yeah I know it's practice but I'm not seeing any of the practice I do translating to the music I want to play, things still sound bad and I'm still so fucking far away
>>34441743Are you talking rock/pop or classical? Classical guitar takes a lifetime to master. Rock/pop is learning a few basic chords.
>>34441805>no one shows how they translate to skillI think the best way I can put it is through art. An artist might go into art because they are inspired by a particular peice of art. Let's say they really like how van gogh paints and they want to paint like van gogh. You are sort of asking why you have to learn how to sketch, draw form, practice lighting, and perspective to do van gogh. And in a sense, you are right. If all you want to do is do perfect copies of van gogh, then you need to do nothing more than find a lamp and a glass platform where you can project the van gogh peice onto a blank peice pf paper and paint over it. This is the essentially what most people that get into guitar do. There are a few songs that they really like and they want to imitate. Thats why there's a bajillion videos on YouTube about how to play smoke on the water or stairway to heaven. Why I dont recommend you do that is because it puts a ceiling on your technical skills and stifles your artistry. Going back to the van gogh example. You simply tracing van gogh peices will never be as good as just having the van gogh peice. I am asking as an artist, why you wouldn't rather add your own flavor to it. Make it unique. Make it yours, even if it is inspired by others, just as the greats were inspired. Learn the technical aspects, learn the shading, and color theory, and texture, and perspective and enrich yourself in the experience. Learn *why* you like what you like so that you can one day leave the rigid path that is imitation and CREATE. That's the big part. If you listen to classical guitar, you can put 100 professionals in the room and have them play the same peice but they will all play it differently, add their own flare, give it their own interpretation. And they are only able to do it because of the technical practice they spent years homing in. This is why I give the advice I give you. Because you ask me how to learn guitar, not how to play prog rock.
>>34441743Look up the tabs/chords to the songs you want to play and play them. Don’t waste time doing random exercises that you don’t even like listening to.
>>34441743Don't fall for the fags who tell you music theory is a meme and you don't need it. Even basic theory will go a long way for you.
