The guitar

gurillabedlam try to understand your post later Lol....

Two frets down from Am is Bm? lol

 

c senor'...

 

i trip guitar and just play as a music head with fingers . sometimes when i'm holding it and moving my hands i don't play music though and don't care . i can be a quiet noodler of nothingness . real music is for the soul to rage . a little nerd kid might even wank the guitar's tuners when i'm not looking . and when i happen to pick it up tuned crazy like that and feel like doing real music right then and there , fuk any rational theory , i play and make it good in a new relationship of artist to the wild .

as an old warrior i play a vietnamese accoustic/electric .

 

well if i understood your post correctly tiko you are making the classic mistake that alot of people who are just to lazy to learn theory make and that is people think theory somehow 'limit's their creativeness' or some bullshit. theory is not for everyone i just hate that excuse because In reality, quite the opposite happens. theory expands your possibilities of creativeness. A really simple example of this is you can express happiness with major chords/scales and sadness with minor chords/scales, then you can mix say major chords with a minor scale or whatever kind of combinations you can think, and if you know what different chord or note intervals sound like you can figure out which one best suits your mood in the matter of minutes as opposed to spending and hour and a half.. it is based on thousands of years worth of music and people have came to agree that basically a simple mathematical forumla of notes creates this 'language.'

Now the great thing about music is like i said it's a basis, so no worthwhile musician would ever tell you that you have to stay in the parameters of the music theory basis, but theory definitely helps you get started and gives you direction and when looking for that special chord or progression theory definitely comes in handy. The ironic thing is that most noodlers who don't claim to use theory are using it all the time because they are either playing from their favorite bands or don't realize how in depth theory can get with the variety of scale and chord combinations there are. I believe you really put more of yourself into the insturment and are able to express yourself through it better if you know at least some theory.

 

We live in such an adhd society a lot of us (including myself) lack the patience. Also the guitar is not as 'cool' as it used to be. Guitar is still pretty damn cool but Djing has really become popular.

Pick up a metronome if you want to help develop speed, occasionally at the beginning you want to throw it and the guitar through a window but it does help. if you learn the individual notes you can understand what a C and bm is.

For the basic chords your top note (root note) decides the name, so if you are making a C chord your top finger should be on the 5th string (from the bottom) and the 3rd fret.

a C is comprised of the notes C - E - G.
So if you know the notes on the fretboard you can play a C ANYWHERE on the guitar with those 3 notes. if you play higher up on the guitar though you have to mute any notes that aren't those to play a correct C.

for a Bm your top finger should be on the 5th string 2nd fret and you will probably make a barre shape to get the 1st, 3rd , and 5th: so a bm are the notes: b, d, f#

Again you can play it anywhere on the guitar where you find those 3 notes, but you have to mute the other notes around those to play it correctly.

 

Squirell man i learned a new chord that had me stuck on the guitar for a few today, thanks! lol...And lately ive been wanted to hear each sound each note of each fret of each string makes for the G major scale and the chords ive been learning as well....My question though...If i play the Dm and move it down two frets which chord is that iam playing, same with Em....This is amaizng thank you............And learning scales is like learning heiroglyphics

 

And yeah it isnt how it once was in mainstream because of new age technology but i still respect it and i got a chance to see how the greats or the perfectors of that instrument started but holy crap its tough to understand......Its also gonna be fun to play if i start getting high again, like mini bands, a guitarist, a hand clapper, a drummer and things like that and either thats gonna happen or i dedicate my shit and become good enough for a band, thatd be fun lol...ACHEIVEMENTS ROCK lol

 

Lessons, you won't lose your original sound or ear for music by being educated.

 

both have merit, but its up to you to decide whats best for your situation. If you think you need lessons, take a couple and see if thats whats right.

Lessons are kind of a throwback to before being able to SEE the people playing guitar, now on youtube you can learn from stars, session masters, and old footage of legendary players that simply wasnt available to players in the past.

My suggestion would be to watch folks play, jam with guys, take a few lessons along the way to balance out too many bad habits as mentioned above... some of all and see what you like best!

 

Something to be said for structured learning and can only be pick up by lessons or just say today stamminar scales then play and jam tomorr timing and theory etc..
Video and clips or even watching a local band is great but just coz ya can play it dont mean ya playing the right.

 

real good advice

 

I suggest being careful of the teacher though, if anyone decideds on lessons. When I first started I took lessons for two weeks from a guy who had never taken lessons himself and if I had taken any longer from him I would have surely picked up his bad habits. After that I switched to another one who told me "any guitarist who puts their thumb over the back of the neck does not know how to play guitar". I wish I would have had a picture of hendrix to show him. After that I had lessons from a guy who I don't think owned a guitar because I never saw him play one, he just told me what to do. By that time I decided I was finished with lessons because nobody taught me what I wanted to know. That was the best choice I ever made with guitar (besides buying one) because I learned way more by just listening to things I wanted to sound like. That is just one person's opinion though. Good luck to whoever was wanting to know.

 

my theory of free and pure music is quite classical . yours is merely common ... which is ok ... but i don't consider it the root of music . i find the beginning more akin to inspired hallucination . it's certainly not lazy , just relaxed . the advanced artist will play in this manner , and so may the beginner . an awareness of 'common theory' is respectfully somewhere in the middle and only somewhat that interesting . the deep and black grooves in my four 40 year calloused fingers say so psycho ragtimey , dem barbed wire strings plicked flat and spare and beyond pain .

 

i think its becoming a lost art.

 

in a lost nation .

but an OPEN MIC is open
do it to it
ra-ji-lee
no apol o gee

 

a lost world? lol....Iam definatly gonna have some lessons real soon but i cant just stay at home these days...I really have to find a job...Bummer

 

A good teacher will only be to happy to show his or her qualifications if properly trainned in the first place. Ask around ya really dont have to go with the first one you find.
You wont learn theory or progression by watching someone play or downloading tab and copy cating it. Fact.

 

if you search youtube for music theory, you will get more than you can watch in one sitting.... that being said its always nice to be able to ask questions and get answers. Its all about what works for each person!

 

chords are fun to play, but once you get into harder songs, you're gonna wanna learn how to tab... and playing tabs just sound badass... acoustic or electric (most electric players mainly are all tabs)
i dont know which type of guitar your playing, but keep teaching yourself and get lessons... the things they teach you will help other things you could do, but found a little hard - much much easier.

 

i bought a book of guitar scales, now my playing is improving very quickly.