when i sat down and took things back a couple of notches and stopped expecting too much, it all went alot smoother and was back to being enjoyable. i will definately try that pick hand and angle excercise. thanks
2 2010-02-09 12:11:41
Re: i'm struggling (11 replies, posted in Acoustic)
thanks for the replies, roger i apologise you're right i wont do it again...ha ha promise.
just to give you a litle background, i bought my electric first and used that for about 5 weeks and got on with it like a house on fire but my favourite band is predictably oasis so i quickly got myself an absolutely beautiful Tanglewood which just sounds so good and when i got it the tunes i was not particularly struggling with but steady away learning just came sooooo easy on this tanglewood and everything seemed to be gelling, my chord changes got so much faster and i felt that i might just might be a bit of a natural. but i soon learned that i was getting away with murder on the electric as in that i was'nt muting strings when i should of for example when doing a C/Am/D and F but the accoustic just exaggerated the incompetence ha ha ha, so it became harder than my first 5 weeks led me to believe.
anyway i am just about to sit down with it for an hour or two and heed the advice which you guys have dished out to other newbs, one in particular which i was doing last night was choosing 2 chords and going between them increasing speed and accuracy slowly but surely.
i look forward to getting to know you all and one day getting alot better and if i'm lucky i might be able to help someone else in the distant future, thanks again guys see you later
3 2010-02-08 21:04:08
Topic: i'm struggling (11 replies, posted in Acoustic)
hi there people, i've been learning for about 2 months now and up till about a week ago i was making some good progress. but just this week i just feel like i've taken a good few steps backward!!!!! its weird, sometimes it feels like i've lost the feeling in my fingers due to the hard skin, then other times i think i've gone back to holding the guitar wrong again ( thumb facing towards the neck) now i'm starting to think the strings might be to stiff cause when i play my electric they feel so much easier on my fingers and i can feel what i'm doing again...... but mainly i think its in my head. up till now i have had nothing but joy but it is getting really really frustrating, which i was warned by my sister that i had to push through. i have a lesson on wed so i will ask my teacher who also runs the shop about strings.
oh yeah ( sorry about the length of this post) since i got my accoustic which i love dearly i find it really hard to play with a pick so i have just started using my fingers i think it all started going wrong about then, but........ i reckon if there is a world record for the amount of times of losing your pick inside the guitar and how long it takes for getting the little devil out again i have the record for sure ha ha ha ha man i am frustrated today.
keir
4 2010-01-18 22:57:12
Re: oasis strumming (3 replies, posted in Song requests)
kosan wrote:
Hi,
I play that one like this:
verse:
down - down,down,up,down,down,up - up,down,up - and back to the start (change chord at the first down).In the middle bit ("bound with all the weight...") - down - down - down,up,down -
Rest of it is variations of the above - play around with it and see what sounds best. Works ok for me .
Lovely song this, greatly overlooked. Sounds great too on solo acoustic!
Shane
newbie draggin up an old thread.......... thanks for the pattern i will try it in a minute. please bear with me i have only been learning for about 8 weeks. can you also tell me your version of the intro and chorus??? i know you say play around with variants but i keep listening to it but i find it hard at the moment to hear through the singing etc.... cheers lads