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Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi

Try:

"She checks out Mozart while she does Tae Bo"

just as a matter of interest I have now tried false nails, they worked a bit but caused me unbelievable problems at work ( I am a school teacher) I have now removed them and will wait for my finger tips to get hard!!

checked out YT ... and to be honest ... couldnt believe you had only been playing for 3 months and singing as well and it was picking notes and not just strumming  ... it would be great if you could add another to show your progression .

Radchael1975 wrote:

I hope ur gonna share ur work...?  I'd love to hear what u've been working on..

Rach xx

No problem.  Just hop a plane to Dulles International here in the states.  Give me a call and I'll come pick you up.  We can have a jamm, a nice cocktail, and I'll take you back to the airport to catch a flight home. 

Sorry, but I haven't the foggiest how to use my recording thingydoody, and if I ever figure that out then I have to figure out how to make the thingydoody's recordings get from cassette tape to computer.  What complicates the matter is that I haven't even tried, or have any intention of trying to figure that out in the near term. 

- Zurf

Try playing some banjo or fiddle or piano music on your guitar.  Also, try converting from one style to another.  I don't know if it'll break you out of your rut, but it's fun. 

I've been working on putting Wild Rose of the Mountain - a traditional fiddle tune - to work on guitar.  Also a lullaby done by the original artist on hammered dulcimer on guitar.  Finally, I've been working on Crocodile Rock, a piano rock song, to be a fingerpick bluegrass guitar song.  It's fun. 

- Zurf

Hi Radchael,

No. not sure what your wiggle is, but an arpeggio is just a string of notes. It can be in any order.

Just listen to the tune of the song. You can try to pick out the individual notes of the tune.

You may know Bonnie Tylers " It's a Heartache". Think of the part of the song when she sings " It's a Heart Ache . . ." A very simple version of what I'm talking about would be to play E ( 2nd fret D string), D ( Open D string) and then start strumming a C chord.

You can play this by fretting a C chord, hitting the note E, lifting your middle finger for the note D - then dropping it back down for the C chord. It's like getting the guitar to sing the melody.

You can then extend that by working out more melody lines as you go through the song. Its all about finding on the guitar the noes that your ears are hearing.

Hope that doesn't sound too complicated - it's really only lifting and replacing one finger.

Hi Radchael,
Learn as much as you can while you can when your in your rut.Your bound to snap out of it when the time is right.Play with as many people as you can(I believe that is where you will learn more and pick up little tricks to advance your talents).
In the mean time may I suggest "Nights in White Satin".A great song that will fit your repatoire nicely.

Hope this helps

Kenny

Learning guitar, most of us will hit a series of plateaus where we feel our progress has leveled out. This is normal for most folks.
The way to break out and start getting better at a more rapid rate is via new material, new artists to emulate and new musical projects to get the old excitement boiling again.

Russell_Harding wrote:

chords with arpeggio moving lines

You mention that other people might not recognise the song if you just played the chords. Russell has a point here. One of the simplest ways to spice up your playing is to add single note runs into your play.

Most songs will have a recognisable intro which you can play on single notes and then launch into a strum when you happen upon a longer note. Keep your fingers in the chord shape as best you can when playing the single notes. You can then add other arpeggio's as you move through the song.

It's a bit like learning a different strum pattern.

Sounds like its time to move on to stuff just a little more complicated and reading all the advice on here - they are dead right .... perhaps learning something like "tears in heaven" or something similar might be the way to go ( thats only one example )  ... but do it the correct way and not just strum it ... set yourself a challenge of learning one a week or fortnight . Loads of nice slow easy lessons for free out there . Pick a song you love and go for it . Good luck and enjoy .

RAdchael,

See your list of songs they seem to me to be quite easy ones, not that there is anything wrong with that but maybe you should go for something a bit harder, something that will make you sit down and try to work out how to change from one chord to another that ye find hard just now?

Or do what I do,lo,l, just learn even more easy songs.

or take a few of your songs and try changing it from the way the original artist does it, try singing it different meaning you might have to change a chord or two.

Ken