Topic: beginner, i really need your help guys!
hi, i'm new here and also new in the world of guitar and i've been playing it only about 9 months. i always ask my teacher that how should i hold a guitar? and he always answers: however u like! but u know it isn't a good-enough answer for me! lol
i tried to look up for my answer in internet. some sites said put guitar on your left leg, and some other said put it on your right leg while sitting. i don't really know how to hold it??!!!??
can anyone help me with a picture?
and can anyone tell me how much should i know about guitar [i mean what things should i be able to play?] after this period of time [9 months]? [i wanna know if i'm stupid in music.]
and another thing is that i have a big problem with playing barre chords clearly. i think it's because my fingers don't have the power to push the strings like this because i'm just 15![in my country boys grow up less faster than US boys!] or maybe it's because i haven't changed my company-made strings yet or maybe because their are far from the fretboard?
and hey another big problem that i have is that i still write the names of the notes under their signs. i know how to read them but when i don't write their name under them i can't practice a song easily and fast. for example if i write their names under them i learn how to play the song after one day but otherwise it will take about one week!
and now that i'm playing the songs which have for example 4 notes under eachother [i mean chors] it's getting hard for me to write every of them. i mean it wastes my time.
and i'm sure that my problem is not that i can't play them, just reading!
my teacher [that is the worst teacher i think] said there is no problem[the thing that he always says] and it will be solved automatically. but i don't think so.
what's your opinion about it?
i'm a cool guy and sorry if i spoke a bit formal. it's because my first language is not english.
THANX for your help.