• Registered: 2008-02-25
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Topic: learning acoustic from scratch

Hi

Been learning acoustic guitar since July 07 on a fender DG-4, have been learning step by step from about.com: guitar from Dan Nash.
I know my scales and 9 chords: A/A Min /  E/EMin  /  D/DMin / C/F & G

I find the site very helpful and promised myself not to progress until i`m competent on each section,at the moment trying to learn speed from chord to chord bit i`m have probs with C and F, and formin the chords quickly. Practice about 1 to 2 hours a day in front of tv just switchin chords, sometimes not even playing, on occasions feel that i getting worse! over practicing ???

Found playing to some songs from ultimate tabs.com with very helpful, even if it does sound that great/ brown eyed girl / house of rising sun/
credence clearwater revival etc.

Just after a bit of advice to keep at it and not to smash my guitar to bits like Keith Townsend of The Who.

  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 1,359

Re: learning acoustic from scratch

Sounds like you are doing ok. There are a lot of self taught players on here (me too). The internet certainly has made it easier to teach yourself. I wish it'd been around 25 years ago - I might not have given up for 23 years or so. Check out www.justinguitar.com there are a loads of great excercises and videos on there. All free! From tuning and changing strings to song lessons and scales. Very cool.

There are times when you do get cheesed off but take a break, chill out and usually when you pick up again something clicks. Keep going, the bit you are at at the moment is the hardest bit.

Until the next bit.... lol

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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  • From: Balloch, Scotland, UK, Earth
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Re: learning acoustic from scratch

borth1967 wrote:

Just after a bit of advice to keep at it and not to smash my guitar to bits like Keith Townsend of The Who.

Pete Townshend, Keith moon was the drummer.

soory, just had to say

Ken

p.s. welcome to chordie

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
  • From: Central Flatland
  • Registered: 2007-05-30
  • Posts: 223

Re: learning acoustic from scratch

There's no such thing as too much practice.  BUT, when you feel yourself getting frustrated or tired or bored, put it down for a bit.  Go get a drink, do a household chore, just do something else for a bit, and come back to it when you're good and ready.  Trying to play through frustration gets you nowhere.

Now, playing when you're frustrated with other things, that's different!

"There's such a fine line between genius and stupidity."
                              --David St. Hubbins
  • From: San Antonio, Texas
  • Registered: 2007-06-12
  • Posts: 353

Re: learning acoustic from scratch

Keep at it Borth ... one thing we've all learned is when your fingers start "acting up", it's usually from playing "too long" ... one thing I've noticed is sometimes your fingers say, "I'm not going to cooperate today" ... just like we all have good days and bad days, your fingers are the same way ... usually when that happens I'll put the guitar down and do something else and come back later

Have fun with the www.justinguitar.com site ... it is the best site for learning IMO ... I paid for an instructor for 2 months and quit; reason?  justinguitar.com was teaching me MORE than I did with him and I picked up things ALOT faster

Electric:  Gibson Les Paul Studio, Schecter Omen 6, PRS SE Custom
Acoustic:  Fender Talman, Yamaha
Amp:  Fender Super Champ XD/Line6 Spider III 75

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