want to get better

[total_brain_damage]

I've been playing for about a year and a half now and I havent really had anybody to tell me what the basics are. I know my basic chords but what would some basic things be that everyone should know other than guitar parts and basic chords?

[chris mood]

being able to identify chord progressions, scales ( blues & major at least), note reading (always helpfull), bar chords (5th & 6th str), triads, basic theory (being able to identify keys), memorize all notes on all str (big +)

[mc9mm]

One tip is to learn the pentatonic scales.
They appear in 98% of the rock songs.(Many jazz and blues too)
And the phrygian scale appears in 89% of the metal songs.
A plus is theyre very easy, you dont have to move
around your hand.

[Vertigo]

phrygian scale ?

I didn't know that!

[Zarg]

Any good sites or books you guys know of that teach these scales and progressions?

~(M)