Hi there, just joined

Hi all,

I have been getting back to the guitar during iso and was looking for a good way to learn. Been going through the rock path on Fender Play and that's good but wanted something new and found Guitar Tricks. I signed up for a year and am just looking around to see how to approach it.

How are you finding Guitar Tricks?

How do you structure your learning?

I am hoping to get to a point where I can jam random stuff that sounds good, by my self or with others. Probbably rock, blues, folk type of stuff. Not really sure what that means but hoping I know when I get there :)

Cheers,

Valberg

Originally Posted by: valberg

...am just looking around to see how to approach it.

How are you finding Guitar Tricks?

How do you structure your learning?

I am hoping to get to a point where I can jam random stuff that sounds good, by my self or with others.

Hi and welcome,

I joined Mar '19 mostly because of the songs. I had started in Jan of '19 with True Fire and had some chords down.

I find GT good, I renewed in Mar '20. I used it as well as other sites and teachers to get a better understanding of fundamentals.

I practice for an hour before work every morning, haven't missed a day of practice yet. Basically its some scale work, some chord work, theory and then fun time. Fun time might be spending some time working on a song I am trying to learn or it might be making up one on my own.

My goal was similar to yours in that when I started over a year ago I wanted to be able to sit with other players and be able to fit in and play along. For the most part I am there as long as we aren't playing anything too fast. Anything in the range of 60 - 120 bpm I can usually get my fingers where they need to be. This took me a long time and it wasn't that long ago that I had that "aha"moment of clarity and all of sudden the fret board made sense to me. So in reality, more than anything, the rest of this year will be concentrating on really getting comfortable with what I know so I can put it to use. I would really love to be like Rob Chapman and Lee if you ever watch the Anderton's videos. Rob just starts playing and he is all over the board without missing a note. That would be great, but not there yet. I miss lots of notes.

I am quite content being by myself with my looper pedal making up my own jams and trying to write licks however and that probably describes me most evenings.

Good luck with it.

Hi Valberg,

Welcome!

If your ultimate goal is to be able to jam along with various styles of music, you'll want to get an undertanding of what makes those styles of music "work".

So in terms of structuring your learning, you might choose one of the very step-by-step courses, like Rock, or Blues, and go through it and learn the basics of the genre.

If you love to jam along, you'll probably also want to understand how the notes on the neck of the guitar "work" - chords and scales as they appear and re-appear up and down the neck of the guitar.

For that, I suggest you hop in to Guitar Fundamentals Level 2 - we do all the barre chord formations and relationships, plus scales.

Have fun! -Lisa

Thanks guys,

Lisa, that's pretty much what I settled on. I looked at fundamentals 1 and it was too basic for me but fundamentals 2 has a lot of scale tricks and practise I have not covered before. I'm learning a lot, thanks for those tutorials Lisa.

William, that's great on creating that rythm on the practise. I'm still trying to figure out if I can find a slot in the day that I can keep consistent, I can see how that would be really helpful. Might have to be shorter than what you are doing but should still help.

I've also found some specialised tutorials on the site for specific things, like songwriting so looking forward to spending the next year getting up to speed.

Cheers,

Valberg