[COLOR=Red]Increase your tambre and Strength hear...


Now, i figure a great way to develop as a guitarist is playing with entry level quality axes. Im not talking about, say something thats been growing fuzz in your friend's basement for the past 6 years, but, in irony, you should look into purchasing a low quality axe. Why? Weeeeellll....

First off, playing with a p.o.s guitar makes it much harder, yes, but it makes you a better player. It can develop strength, in all your fingers.

- Ah, another way to build muscle is to practice a bunch of hard inversions, as progressions. Each chord on 4 beats, as sloooow as you need, then getting faster and faster...so on and so forth...

(I'd suggest a steel string acoustic, due to higher tension, plus it can really help develop your calluses...)

It will also improve your tambre (basically, tambre is the quality in which you play the note, meaning if you hear a lot of buzzing strings, muted notes that werent supposed to be there, so on..., that would mean you would have bad tambre. Someone that doesnt have those problems will have good tambre.) It'll make you more aware of what your actually doing, and you wont get lazy over the fret board...

A lot of us think we play better than we really do, oddly enough. Another suggestion of mine is to record yourself. Take at least a decent level digital sound recorder recorder. You want to be able to tell which notes are what when you hear you recording. You can get these for somewhat little moola, and they are pretty much at electronic stores. Record a lick, song or what ever it may be, and listen to it. You'll probably notice stuff like,

"Geeze, there is a lot of buzzing strings in that part in the middle..." and so on...

It'll also help with your writing process. Ever listen to the radio to someone playing, and think to yourself,

"Hmmm, i probably would not have chose those notes..."

If you dont, you should, it helps you on at least a couple of levels.

You might wanna change your mind on how you play a few phrases, change the lick, and so forth.

My last note is that you dont have to play entirley with horrible guitars. I say poor quality to learn on, good quality to present, record, (ect.) with...

This is my first thread, so let me know how I did...
And please, dont be afraid to brutally honest... I really wanna know how I did...

Hope it helps...