How Good Were you 6 Months Into Playing?

I dont think learning a song like sweet child in the first month is all that great. As far as guns n roses songs go, stuff like estranged, or live n let die offer more problems. There are some mad chords with massive stretches in them in live n let die, an destrange requires amazing technique.

After 6 months I was better than I am now. Well not really but I learnt the intro to Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin and could play Needle & The Damage Done by Neil Young. Since then Ive devoted most of my time to singer/songwriter stuff and my classical pieces but I do still love learning the odd solo, even though my amp is broken and will probably never work.

Originally posted by Axl_Rose
I dont think learning a song like sweet child in the first month is all that great. As far as guns n roses songs go, stuff like estranged, or live n let die offer more problems. There are some mad chords with massive stretches in them in live n let die, an destrange requires amazing technique.

It's not that it's a hard one ... It was one of the first songs I played on elec. , but I've been playing Spanish (Classical) guitar before and my fingers were already used to the fretboard.

It's realy hard to believe that someone can play even just the intro in his first month with guitar ... I don't mean you're lying , may be I'm misunderstanding you . :)

6 months? proabaly not good I was still struggling with certain things mostly chords and and scales.I could play Black Sabbath and stuff like that but to tell you the truth ,My interest in playing wasn't too much .I had other things goin on when I was 16 (girls,parties things like that)But I got into it more as I kept playin and before you know it I was hooked but six months though not too good.

EH!! are we forgeting something here.. a month.. 30 days, in (januray 31! lol). You dont think that despite playing at least 2 hours a day, mostly on average about 4 or even 5, thats a possible 150 hours, you dont think its possible to learn a simple 8 note sequence looped?!?!!? Obviously i wasnt just learning that particular song or intro all the time.
In the UK we have a show called "the moment of truth" and people get a week to learn mad things, every golf courses name in world, or be able to pot every ball off the break off at pool. People can do that!! Is it really hard to believe I learned sweet child in a month, i dont think so. Im not saying i got it perfect, only 2 years on can i say I can play it really well. But within that first month of playing guitar all i was learning was solo's really. And on sweet child there are no difficult chords, no chords to remeber really.
I think people lack determination! Becasue, I'm digging a deeper hole here but i think i nailed the intro in a couple of days! Its only 8 notes for god sake! A great tip is to watch tv whilst playing guitar. If you come across a hard chord or that, just sit n strum it over a whole show, by the end you'll be perfect at it. The intro to sweet child is the same, sit for an hour playing it and youl get it, given a whole month to do it is ridiculously easy!

[Edited by Axl_Rose on 02-02-2003 at 06:59 AM]

Do the young(er) ones learn faster or the free hours they can afford paying off after all those practise? Just a curious thought... like they say, can't teach an old dog new tricks, but is that true when it comes to guitar? Any later starts like me here on this forum?

I'm 20 and got a normal lifestyle (I think... work, uni, girlfriend, and of course my beloved guitar) and I must admit that I don't practise as hard as before. I started guitar as soon as I finished my HSC to goto uni 2 years ago (equivalent to SAT's in US, is that what you call it?) I really can't play alot once the break is over and I have uni :(

Pull Me Under is pretty easy solo though. But after a year, that´s impressive. Still, I prefer alternate picking on that last pull off/hammer on lick.

It´s sad that I have forgotten lot´s of those KISS solos I learned once. They were cool in a way. But my first solo wich I learned after ´bout 2-3 months of playn´ was Ain´t It Fun from Spaghetti Incident. First song I learned whitout solo was Blind Man by Aerosmith.

Hahaha, well that's the best news concerning guitar I've heard in ages. Seems like all the guitar greats + most people her on the forum started playing during their high school era.

It´s when most of us figured that school wasn´t a real thing for us and we all felt to lazy to work for rest of our lifes in a factory and still, we wern´t any bigger sport talents so the only thing that could save us from boring life was MUSIC.

:) I was a typical rap + hip pop fan. Tis a shame, I could have started earlier..

Ohhh Yeaaaah! Like I said in my earlier post, I was playing for 5 hours a day when I was 16. If I tried that now, I'd be doing it on street corners, 'cause I'd soon be unemployed!

Originally posted by aiwass
There's a Danish shredder called Torben Enevoldsen who plays lots of Yngwie-styled stuff. He started when he was 23.

There is hope.

Thank you.

When your at 6 months and feel like you’ve made no progress. Hold the guitar the opposite direction as you do while playing. Now try to play. That’s how Good you were when you started. Best line I read on the internet reading about progress made.

I'm about 6 months into playing guitar. I don't know exactly how good I am for this time period, but I have been practicing a few things.

I can play If I Could be a Constellation by Kessoku Band, I can roughly play the alternate picking intro of Thunderstruck, I've learned how to economy pick, and I am learning how to hybrid pick. I have also learned most of Playing God by Polyphia and can do most of Sweet Child of Mine except for the super fast parts of the solo. I am starting to be able to play along with tabs on easy songs on the first try, I can kind of do Crazy Train But some parts are just too fast. I can do most Asian Kung-Fu Generation songs and simple chords in pop songs (though I'm not the best at chords yet). I also kind of suck at finger picking.

I kind of want to know how I'm doing so far and if there is anything I should practice next. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!