Ive been playing guitar for years now and i now how to compose a song, how to listen and ciffra a song, but then i cant still know all the tabs that a guitar consist of. I want to learn the basics of leading and the so called improvisation. Would you recommend me a website that teaches how to do it in a step by step process? i want to know the techniques and finger positions that a player should have to learn many new sound from the position ill make. thank you.

Henry,

How to learn to play guitar solos? I can answer the question right here! Here’s the approach I recommend for starting out learning to play guitar solos:
Play along with backing tracks:

Playing along with backing tracks works like this:
- download a blues backing track in the key of a
- get a chart of the pentatonic scale (your root note will be at the 5th fret on the 6th string)
- play any note in the scale over the backing track
Its great fun being able to make up your own lead parts.

There’s a website that has much more detail about this and other ways to learn. I’ll include a link below so you can dig deeper.

Good luck,
John

Hi.. I just wanna ask if i could still be a professional guitarist? I’m already, f, 18 years old, when i was 15 i had a little background how to play guitar, but i stopped for almost 2 years now. And i wanna know if i could still be good? I forgot everything I’ve learn before. A lot of people are saying that I cant be very good anymore because of my age. I hope that’s not true, because i really want to be good in playing guitar. especially acoustic songs.

Read the response given by OnTheRock another time. Reality hurts, but it is life. Don’t expect to become a super heroine at the guitar simply because you intend to play some acoustic songs. To become proficient at any instrument requires strong dedication and incentive to progress in all the fields of music, including music theory.

It’s not too late at age 18 to restructure your goals and work at them, especially if you have reached a level of maturity and understand why you quit the first time.

I’m horrible with memorizing song names, but I heard this one song by Kanye West, and it had this weird sounding Guitar Playing through the whole song, and it had high-pitched wails by Kanye, and a cool beat from Kanye’s vocal stuff.

Anyone know?

Just go to amazon.com or itunes and look up his cd 808s and heart breaks and listen to the samples of it its most likely from that cd if he is singing high pitched

http://www.learnandmaster.com/

it depends on you..

I looked up the tab for Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
I play using only the index finger(Left hand) and pluck with the index finger (right hand)
I can’t keep up the time. Can I look up youtube on how to hold the bass properly?

yeah lol you got 4 fingers to use, use them all not just one i highly recommend lessons, half those youtube videos are s*it, a teacher can answer any questions you have like that & teach you proper technique.
watching videos isn’t that great an idea, would you let a surgeon that learnt via youtube operate on you? (exact same applies to bass)

also bass guitar for dummies is a good side resource to have alongside your lessons

Hey everyone. Ive been playing for almost 7 years now and just recently got into lead playing almost a year ago(before i was mainly just doing rhythms).

to hear me play i have a vid of me playing with my band (The Durden Estate) performing our song called "Sandcastlevannia" where i play lead guitar pretty much the whole time. please watch and tell me what you think. im the one on the far right
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101216382

I am familiar with sweep/alt/finger/economy picking, finger tapping, pinch and natural harmonics, double stops, harmonic specificity, different kinds of bends(unison etc). I am know or am familiar with the Major and minor scale, the modes, pentatonics, inversions, how harmonizing with different intervals affects the feel(i prefer harmonizing with thirds the most personally), playing in different time signatures and how to play in swing.

I am looking for new techniques to add to my Guitar Playing so if you know any please let me know

MQ: wut is your favorite guitar technique and name a song that its in
haha he had to do hammer ons because he wasnt finished drinkin his water. And thanks for the Frusciante reference. I was never a huge fan but i had a friend that i used to jam with a lot that idolized him
well i do the sweep but i change the last note i hit. i go F, Eb, Db, Eb.i know the modes but i dont use them as much because im not as fluent with them and that song is mostly improv

You are not a bad player but I doubt you know the modes or, if you do, how come you don’t use them like diminished arpeggios which would be MOST efficient in that video. Secondly. try soloing by using string skipping. That will add an element to your leads.

Example, you wer playing a sweep in onepart of the song. You repeated the sweep 3 or 4 times. Why didn’t you use a diminished sweep and move up the fingerboard ? That would have been better in my opinion. As for my technique, it is spontaneous from guitar sweeps to linear playing which adds an element of speed without actually using speed. LOL…. I use lots of hammer-ons and pull-offs and especially, economy-picking for fast riffs.

Good Luck )

I know…practice. But I don’t want to practice incorrectly. I took a guitar class so I have some chords down, but how to I know how to strum or fingerpick. Any good resources or helpful websites. My Guitar Playing sounds like a dying cat. Help!

Keep your fingernails very short if you’re strumming without a pick. If you use a pick, I suggest you buy the thinnest ones possible, because they’re much easier to control. You might want to try just strumming strings 1-2-3 (E-B-G) for a while until you feel more comfortable with the strumming motion. You might also want to view Frederick Noad’s video series, made in the late 60’s. A few cable stations still carry the series today, but you can also order from http://www.noad.com/Nvideos.htm

I have been playing guitar for over 5 years. Recently, I got a segull acoustic guitar which i like quite a bit. The only problems ive had are with bar chords, which have been more difficult to do than on my electric guitar. Any suggestions for makeing clearer guitar bar chords would be great (such as what string gauges to use)

Acoustic guitars, by their very nature, are harder to play than electric guitars. The string gauge is thicker and the action is a bit higher. There is not really anything that can be done to change that other than putting very light gauge strings on the acoustic. This might sacrifice some of the sound quality though. I have played some Seagull guitars and they play very nicely. I doubt if you could get the action much lower on them without running the risk of fret buzz. To be sure, take it in to the store where you bought it and have them put a lighter gauge string on it and ask if the action could be lowered at that time.
I think that you will just need to get used to it. After playing an electric for so long your fingers have gotten used to the reduced tension and lower action. The best thing you can do is just play the acoustic a lot! Doing basic finger exercises like the 4X4 can help improve strength and dexterity.
Here is an example, use all four fingers.
–2-3-4-5–
–2-3-4-5–
–2-3-4-5–
–2-3-4-5–
–2-3-4-5–
–2-3-4-5–
Play each string individually, walking your way across the neck. When you get to the top, reverse direction and come back down. Do this exercise for about 5 minutes a day. It will help immensely with strength and dexterity. It will also improve your coordination and articulation.

He supposedly already knew how to play guitar when he was in eight grade. Both his parents were musicians so I bet he knew how to play well by around 10 years of age.

"The guitarist Jack Barakat of All Time Low initially invited Gaskarth to form a band playing Blink-182 songs in eighth grade, along with their original drummer. Barakat told Alternative Press that they were not friends at the time (in 2003), since Gaskarth had just transferred from a private school and that Gaskarth had "hated" Blink-182 because he was the "Bob Marley and Incubus kind of kid." Eventually Barakat persuaded Gaskarth to listen to the band’s live album, The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!), and they started the band covering Blink-182 songs.[3]"

I Got a rad accoustic electric guitar today from my grandpa as a hanukah gift. im confused by the chord chart im wicked blonde. i was curious of how long it took others to learn guitar so i can get an estimate fer how long itll take me.
Fun poll: whats your favorite song to play 0.o

Anyone can play guitar when they first pick it up, though you might not be able to play it well. Every guitar player learns to play more every day, it just depends how devoted you are to get to a level you consider good. I wake up at 5 or 6 every day and practice for usually about 5 hours, just because I always see room for improvement. Every day I find a new technique or a new riff or something. Its not like you learn how to play and then you’re just at that level forever. If you wanna be Johnny Ramone, learn the power chord and hit it really fast lol. If you wanna be Steve Vai, play for about a year and see what happens. Anyone who says its hard thinks they’re more important than they really are.