Mariah is happy she is making a change
I’ve got the chords down and I can play through some easy songs. I would just like to get better in general plus I am planning on learning how to play the electric and I just want to be able to shred through a song and that’s my goal. I am self-taught so it’s pretty had and frustrating. I don’t know all the techniques yet but I just need to gather the motivation to practice more. Advice is welcomed =]
Aug 01, 09:36PM PDT | 0 comments
Robert working with a difficult client
I actually made this one of my new years resolutions (see my blog for the details) ... Just an update here though that I am doing this. :-)
Jan 27, 2009, 09:00PM PST | 0 comments
Got myself my very first acoustic guitar and a small amplifier yesterday. I can a strum a few songs, but I need serious polishing in technique.
Practice, practice, practice - that’s my game plan!
Jan 15, 2009, 06:51AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
I’m playing my guitar more, now that I am in college and I have people around me who would play with me.
Oct 19, 2008, 08:42AM PDT | 0 comments
My dad would always tell me to play a little everyday until i developed calluses, promising it would get easier from there. But I got frustrated too easily & kept giving up. 3 years later, I FINALLY pushed myself to do it. Persistence has given me calluses & a stronger hand, so I can play once-frustrating songs all the way through now & hold bar chords down correctly without pain. woo!
NEXT STEP: singing & playing at the same time. i can do some songs, but when the chord progression gets too fast/complicated i stop singing to concentrate on my hands. also, at a young age i developed the “diva” habit of moving my hand while i sing (picture mariah carey with a mike in one hand & the other fluttering up & down to follow her vocal runs), so it’s hard to curb that tendency (i.e. my strumming hand loses the rhythm during a vocal run because it wants to move with my voice instead of continue the strumming pattern). any tips?
Aug 14, 2008, 01:29AM PDT | 0 comments
I think I may start up guitar lessons again, from next September. After the first few lessons spent trying to read standard notation, and killing my fingers on some unnecessary jazz chords, I got really put off.
But maybe this time, now I’m past the basics, we’ll skip onto some more interesting stuff.
Jul 17, 2008, 06:54AM PDT | 0 comments
i’ve been playing guitar off and on since i was 5, and now i’m 15.
i’m self taught, but i want to break myself out of bad habits (like holding the pick the wrong way and little stuff like that). i also want to learn to tune a guitar by ear, without an electric tuner.
if anyone has any tips on how i could do that, it would be greatly appreciated.
May 24, 2008, 03:45PM PDT | 1 cheer | 1 comment
hallo toekomstige mezelf,
ik schrijf je om je te vertellen dat je nog beter gitaar moet gaan leren spelen.
Groetjes je vroegere mezelf.
May 24, 2008, 01:20AM PDT | 0 comments
I want to do anything to be like Pete Wentz
May 21, 2008, 05:36PM PDT | 1 comment
I found the greatest barrier to ‘better guitar playing’ (whatever that really is) is flexibility, speed/accuracy and fingertips that can bear a tune without fretting too much (lame music joke). Once you know what you need to be able to do, getting there is much easier [:. Why tabs are so big .:]
Wikipedia can tell you about scales.
Buy a chord chart.
Stretch your arm/hand/fingers constantly. (Playing the top string with your thumb is a great help, if you can reach!)
To build callouses, rub fingertips on concrete, asphalt or anything roughly textured.
Love and lotsa luck …
Feb 09, 2008, 02:40PM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments