Oh I see!

 

This is the 100th post on this thread!!!!!!

 

my friend learnt in my place on electric guitar and it sounds really good, can any one else (any one reading this) play it?

Nope mine was :sneaky:

Huh?

I was the 100th post :uhoh: nvm Back on topic!

I was the 100th post haha

 

Yes.... Guitars..... Very good....

 

 

What do you think is the most amazing guitar.... In.... The.... World?......

I'm a keyboard guy so...I really like the Gibson that one of the Beatles used...it was vintage looking and had the swilly cuts out like that of a string instrument :awesome:

I'm a keyboard girl at the moment so the Yamaha gt20 is gorgeous :D

:nod: The guitar was a Gibson ES

Yeah, I like the Jeff Beck stratocaster!!! :D

Great :D thanks

 

So do you have any advice? Which guitar is easiest to learn, prefer to learn electric, which electric would be best to start with?:D

 

The most traditional method is to learn on an acoustic, but there's no reason you can't learn just as well on an electric.

 

Honestly, I've heard a lot of people say they wish they started with electric as the necks are generally thinner (thus easier to finger correctly), plus then they're getting used to steel strings whereas a lot of "student" level acoustics are intended for nylon strings (they often have an untrussed neck to save money.)

 

I'd say if you want to play elecric, just go with that.

This is the 100th post on this thread!!!!!!

 

Here's a suggestion:

 

Condense your questions into one post, for cripes sake. You've made like a bajillion posts for something that could easily go into one single post... it hurts my eyes to read

 

also apparently self-teaching guitar can be bad if you pick up wrong techniques as habit and whatnot

Here's a suggestion:

 

Condense your questions into one post, for cripes sake. You've made like a bajillion posts for something that could easily go into one single post... it hurts my eyes to read

 

also apparently self-teaching guitar can be bad if you pick up wrong techniques as habit and whatnot

 

 

FWIW the signature techniques of many famous and well regarded players come from "incorrect" things they picked up from being self taught.

If you're self taught you'll get a good ear. But that's only if you figure out the songs for yourself - without sheet music. I guess it doesn't really matter if you take lessons or learn music yourself.

 

Why do people think music is so complicated? :confused:

I didn't see need for new thread but I can't read sheet music!!!! Frustrating! How do you do it?!

I didn't see need for new thread but I can't read sheet music!!!! Frustrating! How do you do it?!

 

Do you mean music notation or the numbers thing? :thinking:

How do you read the notes?

Like just sheet music overall?

Any tips at all?

This explains about notation symbols: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols and memorise the notes (A, B, C etc) on the staff lines - that'll make it easy to read :)

I started to learn guitar just over a year ago, I bought a second hand electric guitar from a friend with an amp and case. Since then I've been teaching myself, learning parts of songs that interest me, and keep practising until I can do it. Then going back to songs that were once too hard for me and flying through it.

I went the unconventional way of learning on an electric before acoustic, and in my opinion electric is easier. It depends on what you want to play, personally I love songs like Hurts Like Heaven, with upbeat notes instead of songs that are mainly acoustic. Don't get me wrong though, I love coming up with little melodies on my acoustic that sound lovely.

 

It depends entirely on you, but you won't know what's best for you until you try. I think it's best to have an acoustic and electric, and just switch now and then. I've found with acoustics, you need a lot more finger strength, your fingers have to be much more firmly pressed down on the frets otherwise you get funky buzzing noises.

 

I love teaching myself songs, there's a huge sense of accomplishment when you manage to perfect a song with a difficult riff.

I just learnt (self taught too) Muse Feeling Good on keyboard, its easy but it does sound good :lol:

I taught myself piano for the last 4 years, and I am OK I guess, I have been learning guitar for around the last 4 months. I am starting with acoustic, seems more natural to start there, taught myself a bunch of chords, learn parts of a few different songs in order to practice transitions, just starting to practice finger picking... Learning barre chords is very difficult, it will be very hard, then one day, it will just work. With background knowlege from piano, I think you will pick guitar up at a reasonable rate, like myself I guess, but compared to learning piano, it is much more difficult in my opinion, very rewarding though. I love guitar now... allthough im still not very good at all. Good luck

You don't know what your'e missing...

I've tried yellow few mins ago acoustic and its amazing and super easy song to play

Yellow109 01 by Jonrev on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free didn't sound very well but anyway its great

"for you i love you so :D"

 

Are you playing with a soft pick? I dont know how you get that uniform sound, if that makes sense, even across all the strings, the right volume etc...

I buy guitar picks and Coldplay-ify them mwahahaha