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Guitar chord forum - chordie → Acoustic → I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PLAY
I've been playing for almost a year and I've mastered the easy chords. I can also do some fingering but now I'm a bit stuck, everything I've chosen seems to be just hard or no challenge at all. Everyone has gone through this stage, I guess so how has your choice of songs to play evolve? please help me
Welcome Cenela to chordie. I'm not really much of a guitar player but one thing that many a good guitar player has told me over the years if something is to hard to play break it down into small bits.. Practice the hand shapes to play the chords real slowly until it becomes natural. Many of my friends who are good guitarist still have to practice regularly in order to be able to play properly. I'm sure others on here will have better advice than I can give.
Welcome Cenela, learning can be hard, remembering positions, how to finger properly and strumming or finger picking patterns. First question I'd ask is...how good is your guitar? If it's a cheapie chances are the strings are too high off the finger board and or the neck is too wide or deep. My advice would be to go to a music shop and try some good guitars, if you're serious about playing you'll try this. Play some of the tunes you're doing now then the difficult chords to see if it's easier to play. The strings may also be a factor if they're too heavy guage? For acoustic guitar I'd advise 10 or 11 guage. Hope this helps. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
Cenela Hello, I haven't been on chordie for awhile but back in the day I was always on here. I know how your feeling. Don't Fret (LOL) Tell me one thing.....can you tune your guitar by ear. I mean if you pick up your guitar and strum it and it sounds off can you by ear tune it? Master that! If you can hear the correct tone and tune your own guitar by ear that is an achievement on your guitar venture. Now as for harder chords that's ez. Change the chord fingerings to one that you can play and frets you can reach. Google is your friend. If you can't reach the fingerings for a certain chord play a different chord with fingerings that are eazier to reach with the same sound. As far as what to play well what are your interest. I can never ever learn one song and say hey i can play this at a party if the time ever arises, because i like so many songs and practice so many that i never really learn one. this list of songs makes you have to play the voice, the chord, and what you feel inside you as you play all together. It's music, you have to feel it we can't just say well put your finger on 3 2 1, Feel it change chord fingerings, there's really no rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rainbow connection
wonderful tonight david kersh
ticket to ride
three marlenas wallflowers
tequila sunrise
runaway train soul asylum
I'm on fire bruce
hello again neil diamond
always on my mind willie
Easy come easy go george strait
folsom prison blues
much too young garth
heros always been cowboys willie
turn it on up loose dwight yoakum
level super spicy as you need to
keep the strum always at the same
pace
just a quick fyi i went back to my post and they go back to 2008, I remember those first years. I played till my fingers almost bleed, always played always practicing, just loved advancing, learning and mastering new chords and songs. Wow 13 years. When i could tune my guitar by ear and those congratulatory words from one of the site moderators meant all and everything to me. Again thanks chordie!!!!!
Cenela, sorry to take so long to add my 2 cents.. I just saw your post today. Believe it or not, your problem is an extremely common on ... not only for beginners, but for every level of guitarist. You see, none of us ever stop trying to progress. We all strive to hit that next plateau as soon as we reach the one we just conquered. But here's the big secret: Each level we achieve is built on every previous level we've mastered. It's kind of like going to school. You learn your ABCs in kindergarten, then in 1st grade you put the letters together to form words. in second grade, you are reading much better and in 3rd grade you are learning parts of speech and how to diagram a sentence. (compare that to Music Theory). My point is, we all started out near or at the bottom and learned a little at a time. As far as what songs to learn? That's actually an easy one! What songs do you like? Find them here on Chordie and try them out. The chords are all diagramed out for you and placed along the song above the lyrics where the chord changes should go (USUALLY. there are exceptions). Look at the chords you will need to play before you start and see if its a realistic song to attempt. Start with comfortable tunes, maybe 4 or 5 open chords. As you master those, try out some slightly harder ones you like with up to 8 -10 chords, maybe some minors or 7ths thrown in to keep it interesting. You might need to spend some extra time on those, but I'm willing to bet that once you figure them out and you're sounding pretty good on them, you are going to have such a positive outlook on what's next for you. Oh. On more thing. Many musicians will tell you that as they go through this process, the will hit a wall. But that wall gets smaller every time they hit it. Also, on the other side of that wall, once they break through it, they find that their playing makes a quantum leap ahead. You might not even notice it at first, but when you do, oh, boy! Sorry.. ONE MORE THING (Columbo impersonation): Once you are even a little bit comfortable in your playing, find a couple friends to play with or join a local band that plays the kind of music you enjoy. Trust me, it helps a lot. Good luck, sir!
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