Learn to play the guitar better

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.

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.

hallo toekomstige mezelf,

ik schrijf je om je te vertellen dat je nog beter gitaar moet gaan leren spelen.

Groetjes je vroegere mezelf.

I want to do anything to be like Pete Wentz

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 …

I’ve been picking and choosing different tabs to work on, and want to play some songs all the way through. Jack Johnson’s sitting waiting wishing isn’t too difficult, and Plain White t’s hey there delilah’s not bad either. Anyone else no some easier songs that still sound good? I’m working on Sweet Home Alabama right now, but it’s kind of tough… at least for me.

I’ve had an acoustic and an electric guitar for a few years and I still haven’t learned to play them very well.

I got my first guitar last Christmas. It was an inexpensive acoustic, but good enough for learning and finding out if I actually like playing or not. For a couple months I was using DVD’s and the such, trying to see what I could learn that way, but there wasn’t much to see on those. So in April I started my first lessons… When those were over, I took more… And when the second ones were done I signed up for thirds and now I have lessons set up for well into December. I fell like after all these months I have a good understand of guitar. Mostly chords and the such. I can do a G scale, but not all that well yet, I havn’t been focusing on that. My chords are pretty good, so next it will be the scales. I obviously like playing, my only regret is that I didn’t start earlier. I’m 17 and I know people my age who can play wickedly, I just wish I was that good by now. I want to get better and keep playing, practise more strumming, becuase that tends to throw all the songs off when I’m not doing it correctly. My teacher isn’t that great, but I just think thats cuz she frustates me sometimes. lol. I dunno, but I want to get better and keep playing. Hopefully! :)

i started guitar about a year ago, and i did it for about half a year.
about 3 months after i started, the teacher left and we got a new one, and in my shared lesson, 2 more people were added, and i basically got ignored. and the teacher wasn’t too good :)
i’m hoping to start again in september at school