Learn to play the guitar

I’m hooked. In, noodling like crazy. I’m now trying to find out about, lead runs, where to use the major pentonic scale, the minor melodic scale, chord progressions. When you start retracing school in search of music theory, you know you’re in deep.I would reccomend lick library for dvds, Jamie Humpries I’ve found consistantly good.

OK, I seem to have hit a block. So, standard practice of keep on practicing, it’ll give eventually.

Still working on the scales, using a metronome now, am working on 168 bpm

Stillworking on the scales, using a metronome now, am working on 168 bpm

Hooray. A step up, only a small one but a definite step. Listening to some chill out and trying to doodle along on the guitar, found a scale pattern that fitted, it was one I recognised but was in the wrong place on the fretboard. So I carry on up the fretboard to the next scale pattern and glory be! It fitted. What I’ve done is taken the shapes from the pentonic A minor scales and shifted them around the neck, so I’ve transposed! I can now doodle. I don’t fully understand exactly what I’ve done but I can sure use it, so I’m gonna practice and get this down, Back to the DVD.
I’m really pleased about this, goes some way towards justifying buying three electrics, ah, but they are beautiful.

I’m currently working on scales, the pentatonic in A minor to be precise. I enjoy this, and the fact I’ve actually picked it up and am running with it is a source of satisfaction as I never thought I would. My next step is to transpose this on the neck into different keys like Mr.Humphries on the dvd has alluded to. I also need to keep this goal as a routine as I tend to swing between Karate and guitar and when my focus is on Karate I don’t practice the guitar very well. If I pick it up at all, it’s more liable to be a quick strum and a few scales as I’m concentrating on how little time I’ve got to get some practice in on the guitar rather than making the time count.
A cheer for 43 things on this as getting down my goals and setting out the whys and hows helps me to get what I want to do straight in my head.
I will work on the guitar scales today. I’ll let you know.