Originally Posted by: jragsdale9Hi All,
I have been "playing" for around 10 years. I know a thing or two but after all this time I don't feel like I really "know" how to play guitar. I can play along to a few songs, I can stumble through some basic riff's and lead but I really have no idea what I am doing which means that unless I am following TAB or playing along to a song I am lost.
I have tried a few online lessons but I struggle to know where to start. If I start in the beginners section I get bored quick because most of it I do know, chords, how to hold the guitar stuff like that.
So I am trying out guitar tricks, hoping for the best. Can anyone offer and sugeestions on how to get the most out of this site? Where would you recommend someone like myself start?
A good place to start, if you have time as a player is to go to this page and on it the sections Scales and Combining Scales Chords.
I very simple starting point, if you're familiar with the Pentatonic scale is this; If you play a barred A chord (5th fret barre), that is also essentially the root note to start playing in A Major Pentatonic. So, all the notes within that Pentatonic scale will be in key when playing an A Major chord progression. Wanna go minor? Just go up 3 frets.
That is way oversimplified but also does much to demystify chords and scales. After that, check out those lessons to get much further along.