Any experienced guitar players have advice on how to learn better?
I played very little in highschool and now, 15 years later, I have the urge to go back to it. I've been playing for an hour or so most days for the last month which I know isn't a lot but lets be honest, it's just for my own enjoyment, I have no illusions of being a middle aged rock star.
Anyway I was wondering if people had any advice, good resources, sheet music that isn't garbage?
In my position would you go the self taught route or is it really important to have a tutor? I'm particularly concerned about picking up bad technique and then practicing that, I feel like that was a big part of why I gave up in the first place - fucking up the same things no matter how many times I did them because I learned them wrong.
Thanks all.
Hey! I play so much guitar, Im in a bunch of bands in NYC. Id say do it, if you can get a tutor thats great. My advice is to practice with a metronome so you can get good enough to play with other people, all anyone really wants is someone who can stay on beat.
That's super cool, wish there was more of a live music scene around me but I can totally see practice with a metronome being useful when I do want to play with others. Cheers.
theres probably more of a scene than youd think, but less than you hope. Metronomes are great, you gotta start early with them because people will play for years and get to a point of being really good but having no ear for the beat, you know? I was someone who could shred and then couldnt play 4 notes to a beat, and having to relearn that really messed me up so my advice to people starting is to just bite the bullet and learn to play in time.
Definitely.
And yeah, learning to play in time seems like something you do right once but it very hard to pick up down the line when you have years of practice only playing to your own tempo.