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Guitar Help Please!

  • 21-06-2007 9:53am
    #1
    *tOpLaSs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭


    Hello all.. Ok so I've wanted to play the guitar for a long time.. Next year I should get a bit more free time so I'm considering starting in September after this summer, my friend teaches.. I can read the treble clef really well, have done violin for 11 years, so I'm wanting to know will the guitar be something I can pick up quickly? I play the violin like I said ^, so this might make it easier? I don't want to be doing chords for the whole year, but I want to get pretty much straight into songs.. I also need some advice on what rock-ish music would be easy to play?
    Thanks in advance!:cool:


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  • #2
    NeMiSiS
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    The easiest way I would reccomend to learn I would say, is to pick songs you yourself like, and would like to play. Then get going at it. I have no idea would the violin help you, it would give you a foundation in understanding music allright, scales, progressions etc.

    With anything it requires alot of work, and piatence to make progress. It can be very hard ( and painful) to get your hand used to the shapes of chords, barre chords, etc. If yu do not want to play chords for 6 months then don't, if you do not feel it will help you progress. But they are the foundation of guitar, and give you a good understand of how scales work, and what progressions work, and which don't.

    Look up what is called the CAGED system, or have your friend explain it to you, if you get it quickly it will give you a a very good understanding of how chord shapes are formed all over the neck. ou can then use this to better understand soloing.. etc.

    Best advice really, is play all the time, when you are doing nothing watching TV be playing guitar, sitting on the jacks - play your guitar, you get the idea.

    Also get a guitar that suits your "style" or the style of music you wish to play..

    TK


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