Make sure your fretting hand is in a comfortable positition and be sure to have your nails cut down. Yes it will be weird and difficult at first...but as long as you have proper technique (you say you are arching) then it will come...it takes a while for your fingers to stretch and your muscles to build up in your hand. you have never used your muscles like this before. After a while the tips of your fingers will become flat and you will easily form chords. Everyone goes through it...Practice every other day, that way your hand has a day to rest and build muscle. Also it will be more difficult depending on your guitar...how much room is between your guitar strings and the fret board? If you can put a coin between the two and still have room then the strings will likely be more hard to press than it should be.
2 2007-03-04 23:56:27
Re: Need rock songs with chords! (6 replies, posted in Electric)
Hey this is called chordie.com not tabbie.com. if you want chords to virtualy ANY song, then you are at the right place....try some lynyrd skynyrd..they got alot of well know great songs that are easily played with simple chords.
3 2007-02-23 23:07:49
Re: Cool Spanish guitar scale (9 replies, posted in Acoustic)
anyone got a link to these "gypsy" scales?
4 2007-02-20 21:20:01
Re: Who is your guitar hero? (36 replies, posted in Electric)
If you like originality and absolute brilliance than Jack White is a god. Also for the older bloggers...every guitarist from the greatest band ever...Steve Gaines, Allen collins, Gary Rossington...geniuses all of em.
5 2007-02-20 17:53:46
Topic: Correct way to play Jack Johnson's Flake (0 replies, posted in Song requests)
I looked it up on chordie and the chords are right(Although i prefer a differnt position) but i just cant figure out the strumming pattern, Even the one listed on here as the "Correct Strumming Pattern" doesnt sound right to me. Any ideas?
6 2007-02-20 17:49:26
Topic: Cool Spanish guitar scale (9 replies, posted in Acoustic)
-0-1-3----------------------------------------------
-------0-1-3-------------------------------
-------------0-2------------------------
-----------------0-2-3-----------
-----------------------0-2-3-
------------------------------0-1-3--
Play that with different patterns and speed and mix in Am Em and F and it sounds really cool.
7 2007-01-20 15:54:09
Re: PALM MUTING (4 replies, posted in Electric)
Its all about feel...Just as with everything about the guitar all you can do is find out the proper technique and even though it want feel or sound right at first...practice practice practice...its always seem to come around
8 2007-01-20 15:50:46
Re: wat are some good easy songs (3 replies, posted in Electric)
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Simple Man
Chords = C, G, Am
White Stripe- Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground Chords = Am,G,C,D,A
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Chords= E,A,E,Bm7
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Soul to Squeeze Chords= F,C,Dm,B or maybe its B Flat. I forget but its one of the two.
9 2007-01-09 21:39:10
Re: Cannot sync my hands! (11 replies, posted in Electric)
I-------------------------------0-2-3---
I-------------------------0-1-3---------
I---------------------0-2---------------
I---------------0-2-4-------------------
I--------0-2-3--------------------------
I--0-2-3--------------------------------
Try out this exercise and be sure and use the correct fingering for each note.
1= Index
2= Middle
3= Ring
4= Pinky
For this exerice the fingering and the fret position line up.Start out SLOW and work your way up to a faster pace. After a couple weeks your fingers on both hands will do it without you having to tell them to. The best way to get good quick is to learn the fundementals instead of trying to play songs. Also you should start out practicing basic easy chords (Em,Am,etc.) and working on changing from one to another.
10 2007-01-09 21:27:01
Re: help with strumming patterns (5 replies, posted in Electric)
Thanks but let me ask you this...you say never stop moving your hand but is it ok the change pace in the strum? Like i dont mean change pace somewhere in the song that differs from the way it was played at the beggining ...i mean that actual strum have some quick stroke followed by slower ones...or vice versa.
11 2006-12-18 22:29:31
Topic: help with strumming patterns (5 replies, posted in Electric)
i have been playing a couple years now..self taught. i can play just any chord there is which means i can play any song out there. the problem is that when i play a song it doesnt sound the same to me as when other more expirenced players play it. i beleive it is because i cannot strum as they do...to make it worse i cannot pick up on the patterns that they are playing...any advise?