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William MG
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William MG
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05/25/2020 11:42 am

Good morning and welcome

There are many of us here in the same age bracket with similar stories. A few things jump out at me and I hope you take this as constructive feedback.

Classical and electric guitar deal with the same 12 notes per octave. So I am not sure why you are treating them as separate animals. They do sound different, but a lick is a lick and its going to be made up of the same notes no matter the type of guitar.

You do say you know what you want, which is a good thing, but can you clearly define it for yourself? For instance your goal may be to learn some of your favorite songs so you can enjoy playing them – and that’s it. Totally cool. There are all kinds here and many more on the web. Your goal may be to be able to write your own music, or your goal may be to have the fretboard knowledge so you can jam with others or play along to jam tracks effortlessly. Whatever the goal(s), they are yours and it is very important to know what they are so that you are focusing your energy on learning the skills you need. And of course finding the resources you need.

From my own 18 months of practice I have found it very important and beneficial to know what I am going after and commit to finding those resources. Here you will find some structure with Lisa’s beginner lessons, but then you are kind of like a bird out of the nest and need to take on for yourself what your path will be.

I should also summarize the recipe for you as in your post you mention the “recipe”. [br] Notes make up chords. There are chords that sound good together and there are notes that sound good when played over chords. That’s kind of the recipe in a nut shell from what I see. So maybe if you don’t know what chords sound good together, that would be a place to start. Just make up some strum patterns. Then try to solo over them using notes that sound good together. All this material is available here an on the web.

Good luck.


This year the diet is definitely gonna stick!